This presentation was delivered on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, as part of the free monthly webinar series Friends for Youth's Mentoring Institute with special guest presenter Emily Turner. This presentation will focus on educating ourselves about modern day slavery occurring in our communities and how we can utilize our mentoring programs, mentoring relationships, and community partnerships to raise awareness, generate activism, and think preventively. Our special guest speaker, Emily Turner, will identify modern day slavery and coinciding issues related to victim vulnerability and behavioral risks. This information is vital in understanding all forms of sexual exploitation and how mentoring, as an evidence-based prevention strategy, has the potential to not only decrease demand and rescue those enslaved, but also to prevent youth from becoming involved into vulnerable situations that may contribute to sexual exploitation.

1. Mentoring as
Prevention for
Modern Day
Transforming lives through
the power of mentoring Slavery & Sexual
Exploitation
Friends for Youthʼs
Mentoring Institute
March 2011 Webinar

2. Webinar Logistics – Adding Comments
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Sarah Kremer, ATR-BC
Emily Turner
Friday Night Live
Program Director
Coordinator
Friends for Youthʼs
Amador-Tuolumne
Community Action Agency
Mentoring Institute
Sonora, California

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4. Human Trafficking Advocacy
Through Mentoring
Relationships
Emily Turner

5. Human Trafficking
The recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harboring or receipt of persons, by means of
the threat or use by force or other forms of
coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse
of power or a position of vulnerability or of the
giving and receiving of payments or benefits to
achieve the consent of a person having control
over another person, for the purpose of
exploitation.
-US DOJ

6. Breakin it Down …
 Force
 Fraud/ Coercion
 Beating
 Deceit
 Slapping
 Threat
 Burning
 Fear
 Assault
 Isolation
 Rape/ Gang rape
 Selling a dream
 Confinement
 Creating dependency

7. Human Trafficking is …
- Modern day slavery
- Illegal
- Active
- Preventable!

8. Who are the victims?
 Undocumented migrant
workers
 Runaways
 Marginalized populations
 Attention-needy individuals
 Uneducated/ naïve
populations
 Impoverished/ in debt
individuals or populations
 Displaced individuals

9. Around the Globe
 There are more people  US Dept of Labor
enslaved today than at
has identified 122
any other time in world
history
goods produced by
 Both sex and labor slaves in 58
slavery happens within countries
and across international
borders

10. On US Soil
 DOJ estimates that  244,000 at risk youth
between  Average age of entry
200,000-400,000 into sexual slavery in
people are enslaved at US is between 12-14
any given moment
years old (both male
 Each year, another and female)
14,500-17,500 are
trafficked INTO the US

11. Forms of Slavery
 Sex
 Labor
 Residential brothels
 Home servants
 Farm workers
 Disguised brothels
 Cotton
 Strip clubs
 Cocoa
 Marriage services
 Tea/ Coffee
 Citrus
 Street prostitution
 Factory workers
 Escort services
 Fish/ shrimp vessels

12. Why Humans?
 High profits
 $32 Billion/ year
 Demand
 Cheap labor
 Resale value
Call + Response clip- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9HFpD3azs

13. We Need You.
They Need You.
An estimated 18 million young
people between 6-18 live in
situations that put them at risk of
not living up to their potential.

14. Why Mentoring?
 Mentoring evidence-based practices supports
effective prevention strategy
 Creating long term relationships
 Offering opportunities and activities
 Meeting the needs in at-risk youth population
 Belonging
 Mastery
 Independence
 Generosity

15. Basics of a Mentoring Relationship
 Mentor
 Mentee/ Protégé
 Adult/ Older individual
 Youth/ Younger
 Affirming
individual
 Attentive
 Learner
 Acquiring knowledge
 Has needs
 Has expectations

16. What YOU Can Do As A Mentor
 Talk to your mentee/  Plan an outing with
protégé
your mentee to
 Become familiar with observe the
red flags and community (with red
recognizing signs
flags in mind)
 Talk to your local  Be their friend
law enforcement
 Be affirming

17. Recognizing the Signs
 Work & Living Conditions
 Not free to leave or come and go
 Works excessively long hours/ unusual
hours
 Was recruited through false promises
 High security measures exist in work place

18. Recognizing the Signs
 Behavior
 Is fearful, anxious, tense or submissive
 Exhibits unusual behavior around law
enforcement
 Avoids eye contact
 Not in control of their situation
 Loss of sense of time
 Inconsistencies in stories

19. Recognizing the Signs
 Physical/ Mental
 Lacks health care
 Appears malnourished
 Signs of physical abuse or torture
 Lacks knowledge of specifics (where she/
he is staying or what town they are in)
 No personal possessions or identification
documents

20. Programming & Activism
 Life skills workshops
 Guest speaker- awareness presentation
 Advocate for local and national
legislation, county or city ordinances
 Join or start a coalition
 Movie night & discussion

21. Your program is
essential!

22. Resources
 Organizations
 Not For Sale Campaign (www.notforsalecampaign.org)
 Slavery Map (www.slaverymap.org)
 Free2Work, Free2Play
 Restore International
 ECPAT
 Free the Slaves
 Courage to be You (C2BU)
 End Human Trafficking Coalition of the Sierras (EHTCS)
 Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST)
 Emancipation Network
 International Justice Mission
 Polaris Project

23. Resources
 Books
 Half the Sky (Kristof & Wudunn)
 Finding Karishma (Bob Goff)
 Not For Sale (David Batstone)
 Slave Next Door (Bales & Soodalter)
 A Crime So Monstrous (Skinner)
 Movies
 Taken- 2008
 Slumdog Millionaire- 2008
 Call + Response
 Trade- 2007
 Not For Sale documentary
 Human Trafficking- 2005

24. Human Trafficking Hotline
1-888-3737-888

25. For more information or to contact
Emily Turner
209-533-1397 x 297
eturner@atcaa.org

26. Questions?

27. Thank you!
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