Q&A
Prevention and education efforts for youth to recognize trafficking
1:00:12
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Council Member Stevens inquires about efforts to educate and prepare young people to identify trafficking trends, both for themselves and their peers. ACS representatives outline their prevention and education initiatives.
- ACS uses educational videos, such as 'I'm Little Red', to facilitate discussions with young people about trafficking
- The agency distributes flyers and conducts roundtable discussions to raise awareness
- ACS has created a set of 'red flags' specifically for young people to recognize potential trafficking situations
- The agency operates a youth leadership council to engage young people in discussions about trafficking
- Prevention efforts include poster contests and talent showcases that allow youth to express themselves while learning about trafficking risks
Althea Stevens
1:00:12
And I know we spoke about how we are helping staff identify us.
1:00:16
How are we also supporting young people on identifying, like, trends and and giving them also the information.
1:00:24
What are we doing to prepare them, especially because we know a lot of times these places are being targeted.
1:00:29
People are looking for vulnerable young people.
1:00:31
What are we doing, as far as supporting young people on having them prepare to be able to identify it, not only when it's happening to them, but when they're friends?
1:00:40
What what are we doing around that?
Sabine Chery
1:00:42
We do some prevention work.
1:00:44
There's, videos that we use.
1:00:46
There it might be a little animated, but we still use it for the young people called I'm Little Red.
1:00:50
We do discussion groups with the young people around that.
1:00:53
We have flyers.
1:00:54
We do round tables.
1:00:55
We we operate a youth leadership council where we have our young people come in and talk and just retalk and find out what's happening.
1:01:03
We took look at the red flags because we've created red flags for our young people as well.
1:01:08
So those are some of the things that we're doing as far as prevention work.
1:01:11
Having posters, having them, do a contest where they can share and disclose their talent, but yet instill also expressing what they're going through and what they're seeing, whether they're at risk or traffic.
1:01:23
So we do that as well with our young people.
Althea Stevens
1:01:27
I I I have more questions for you guys, but I am going to pass it over to, some of my co chair my co chairs now, and then I'll come back to to ECS and DYCD.
1:01:37
So I I'll pass it over to council member Salam at this time.