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Engagement with faith-based communities and CBOs in anti-trafficking efforts
1:38:35
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about engagement with faith-based communities and community-based organizations (CBOs) in anti-trafficking efforts. Agency representatives outline their collaborations:
- ACS trainings are open to the public and often involve partnerships with CBOs
- Faith-based communities are engaged in foster parent recruitment efforts
- ACS works closely with 'Not on My Watch' and Reverend Q, a faith-based organization
- ACS participated in a sex trafficking forum arranged by faith-based organizations
Rita Joseph
1:38:35
Please continue to scale up and do as much as you can to make sure victims feel respected and and treated with dignity.
1:38:41
Have you engaged the faith based community and any CBOs that you're working with?
1:38:47
That go to anyone.
Ina Mendez
1:38:50
Around this particular work or just foster care in general?
Rita Joseph
1:38:53
I can't hear
Althea Stevens
1:38:54
you.
Ina Mendez
1:38:54
Around this particular work?
Althea Stevens
1:38:56
Mhmm.
Ina Mendez
1:38:59
I'm not aware.
1:39:00
I was I mean, yes.
1:39:01
Definitely community based organizations.
1:39:02
Our trainings are open to the public.
1:39:04
We often partner with them to provide services.
1:39:07
So in in that in that vein, yes, in terms of the training and then also providing, particular, supports and services.
1:39:16
In terms of foster parent recruitment, we often partner with faith based communities to get the word out.
1:39:22
Foster parents are engaging their own, religious family members or within their networks.
1:39:28
So whether they're going to church or a temple or synagogue to recruit and inform people about foster care.
Sabine Chery
1:39:34
We also we also have worked close with, not on my our watch, Reverend Q.
1:39:40
So we are working with a faith based organization.
1:39:42
She had, arranged with a different faith based organization, a sex trafficking forum, and ACS was part of that.