{"id":185330,"date":"2024-10-26T00:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T05:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=185330"},"modified":"2024-10-26T00:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T05:24:56","slug":"child-trafficking-issue-addressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/10\/26\/child-trafficking-issue-addressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Child trafficking issue addressed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COLUMBUS — A new toolkit<\/a> released on Friday will equip Ohio\u2019s communities to respond in a coordinated way to child sex and\/or labor trafficking by establishing or strengthening collaborative, survivor-centered interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Child Response Protocol Toolkit is a joint project of the Governor\u2019s Human Trafficking Task Force and the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Human Trafficking Commission, Victim Services Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The toolkit recommends using its strategies to identify key stakeholders, to customize a local identification and response protocol, to learn human trafficking indicators, and to support vulnerable youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis protocol will give established communities the opportunity to enhance their protocols while also providing a foundation for communities new to this work,\u201d said Andy Wilson, Director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety, whose agency houses the State Anti-Trafficking Director within the Office of Criminal Justice Services. \u201cThe preferred practices outlined in this toolkit will help Ohio communities provide the continuum of services children desperately need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The toolkit includes statutory definitions of trafficking and discusses how trafficking presents in Ohio, based partly on call data from the National Human Trafficking Hotline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProtecting vulnerable youth from the evil of human trafficking falls on everyone \u2013 families and communities alike,\u201d Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said. \u201cKnowing what to look for and having a coordinated plan are vital first steps toward stopping the victimization of kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The toolkit also suggests the potential partners that could be involved in local response efforts from victim advocates to local law enforcement to the court system. In addition, the toolkit includes the most recent human trafficking statistics for Ohio cases from 2021. It also notes that individuals may be at an increased risk for trafficking due to inequitable access to resources, unstable living situations, previous history of abuse, and other reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further information in the toolkit covers Ohio\u2019s Safe Harbor Law, the elements of trauma responsive care, and how to build a local child response protocol, including the duties of the centralized points of contact who coordinate care for survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS — A new toolkit released on Friday will equip Ohio\u2019s communities to respond in a coordinated way to child sex and\/or labor trafficking by establishing or strengthening collaborative, survivor-centered interventions. The Child Response Protocol Toolkit is a joint project of the Governor\u2019s Human Trafficking Task Force and the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 17:10:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185355,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185330\/revisions\/185355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}