Q&A
ENDGBV's outreach efforts focused on trafficking
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Council Member Farah N. Louis asks about ENDGBV's current outreach efforts focused on trafficking. Commissioner Saloni Sethi provides a comprehensive overview of their outreach strategies and public awareness campaigns.
- ENDGBV conducts community-based outreach in partnership with providers in all boroughs
- They assess the best messenger for each community, often partnering with community-based providers
- In January 2024, they launched a public awareness campaign using Link NYC kiosks and posters
- The NYC Hope website is continuously updated with resources for trafficking survivors
- They are developing map-based resources to help survivors find nearby services
- ENDGBV has partnered with the Brooklyn Human Trafficking Task Force on a resource guide
- They are collaborating on an MTA campaign to further push public awareness efforts
Farah N. Louis
1:23:31
Thanks.
1:23:31
And your agency highly relies on outreach.
1:23:34
So I wanted to know what type of outreach is your agency currently conducting to focus on trafficking.
Saloni Sethi
1:23:40
Yeah.
1:23:41
So we are doing, all kinds of outreach.
1:23:43
I think, you know, I think, in terms of our community based outreach, we work with providers, in all of our boroughs to kind of outreach on the topic of trafficking.
1:23:53
Right?
1:23:53
And so our office, I think we're always making the assessment of who's the best deliverer of the message for the community that we're serving.
1:23:59
Right?
1:24:00
And sometimes that's our office, and most of the times it's our office in partnership with our with our community based providers who are who are on the ground.
1:24:07
I think in addition to that, I think public awareness is as folks have mentioned, we've done in 2024, we actually, in January, did public awareness through link NYC kiosks and developed, like, posters on human trafficking that are really focused on, you know, what are some of the signs that somebody might then self identify as as a survivor of trafficking, and how do we connect them to resources.
1:24:28
We also again partner, I think, when it comes to outreach really on that public awareness and that basic information of how do we connect.
1:24:35
Right?
1:24:35
So I think we have our NYC hope website, which we're continually updating.
1:24:39
We're actually working on trying to get map based resources there, so something we can pull it up on their phone and look up services that are actually around them, which is, you know, a new feature that we hope to have online soon.
1:24:48
We've partnered with the Brooklyn Human Trafficking Task Force on a guide of resources specifically for, trafficking survivors.
1:24:55
And I think, you know, I think that's something that we're sort of continue to doing, more of.
1:24:59
But I think it's as, you know, the folks at m I NYPD mentioned, we're hoping that MTA campaign also really helps push our public awareness efforts further.