Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak revisit the important influence of health care providers on human trafficking victims. They discuss new resources that have moved away from awareness, and into a more training focused aspect in order to identify and assist a trafficking victim. They discuss the significance of health care providers creating a four-step plan to assist victims through a safety plan, knowing how to refer, understanding mandatory reporting, and establishing a protocol.
Key Points

S.O.A.R. (stop, observe, ask, and respond to human trafficking) has provided new resources for health care providers, see below.
The first part of a plan to assist victims is safety. A safety plan can include having resources available to give victims.
Along with this, is knowing how to refer victims to the proper resources.
The next step for health professionals is understanding the mandatory reporting requirements and steps to take for a victim-centered approach.
Protocols are complicated and require a lot of processes, quality assurance, and a legal team. However, once that is in place, frontline health care providers will be empowered to actually identify and assist human trafficking victims.

Resources

S.O.A.R. Training
Brochure for Health Care Providers 
Brochure for Health Care Providers - Spanish
National Human Trafficking Hotline Card
Human Trafficking Training for Nurses Video
36 – Why Healthcare Providers Matter and What They Can Do
59 - One Love for Nurses

106 – Health Consequences of Human Trafficking

159 - What is a Medical Home?

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Transcript
Dave: [00:00:01] You're listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 185, Educational Resources for Health Care Providers.

Production Credits: [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave: [00:00:30] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie: [00:00:35] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: [00:00:38] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie as we were preparing for today's conversation on educational resources for health care providers, we were discussing some of the past episodes that we've aired. Actually, a bunch of episodes specifically diving in with health care providers and some of the resources available and this prompted me wondering well what is new? What's the reason for us revisiting this topic? And It turns out there's a whole bunch of things that are new, aren't there?

Sandie: [00:01:16] Absolutely. I think there is a growing sense that our health care providers are seeing victims of human trafficking, both sex trafficking, and labor trafficking, and they need more tools to help them identify to assess and to take some sort of action. And I think one of the early episodes that we did on this was with Laura Letter. Her research has become seminal in pushing this agenda forward. One of the initiatives that are out there, and I'm going to pull it up really quick, is the infographic that S.O.A.R. did. S.O.A.R. is stop, observe, ask, and respond to human trafficking. And so, when people are approached in a health care environment, administrators, directors, nurses, doctors the first thing they want to understand is why do we need to do this. And the infographic that S.O.A.R. put together actually identifies two basic premises. One is that the number of endangered runaway youth that are likely to be sex trafficking victims is one in six of those runaways...