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Human Trafficking Training Center

Human Trafficking Training Center

职业培训和指导

We Teach You Proven Methods to Identify and Help Victims of Human Trafficking.

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The Human Trafficking Training Center offers comprehensive and effective skill-based training to ensure every participant leaves every class immediately in a position to identify and help victims and take traffickers out of circulation. Unlike most human trafficking training, HTTC's programs are backed with 27 years of law enforcement experience that help produce trackable results. Officers not only learn what human trafficking is and how to identify it, they actually learn skills they can use in the field. We see this time and time again, within days (sometimes less) of attending the training, officers are identifying victims, getting them assistance and / or making arrests of suspects.

网站
https://www.humantraffickingtrainingcenter.com/
所属行业
职业培训和指导
规模
2-10 人
类型
私人持股
创立
2021
领域
Human Trafficking Investigations、Special Victims Methodology和Law Enforcement Training

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  • Human Trafficking Sting? This is outstanding police work, but this is not a human trafficking operation. This is a predator operation, going after predators not traffickers. Every day I see these posts, which while good police work that we should be doing, but when you classify something that it is not, it can confuse the public, confuse future jury pools and even give people the wrong impression of trafficking. Will we ever get to the point where we know the difference between a human trafficking operation and a predator operation? This seems so simple and yet we continue to do this every day. #training #humantrafficking #police #policetraining #lawenforcement #lawenforcementtraining https://lnkd.in/gWJSMkbh

  • This is why we do what we do. This is why we spend all the time we do on flights, in hotel rooms, driving rental cars, crisscrossing the country teaching the police. Last night I heard from a State Trooper who came to our training less than a year ago and who has been using his new learning to help human trafficking victims (14 so far and counting!). Two nights ago, he was helping one of his fellow Troopers who had very recently been to the same training. During a vehicle stop they identified two adult females as possible victims of human trafficking. One of them was very belligerent, the other not quite as bad. But they used their new skills to talk to them. Eventually, because of their excellent police work, one of them started crying and agreed to go to a trafficking shelter. The second female also agreed to go to the shelter. The next day the Trooper got a text message from them letting him know that they were OK and that the shelter was treating them well. One of them wrote, "I just wanted to reach back out and tell u how thankful I am for this opportunity! Ur an amazing man!” This is why we do what we do. This is why we spend all the time we do on flights, in hotel rooms, driving rental cars, crisscrossing the country teaching the police. This is what it is about!?

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    I get messages weekly with questions about how to select the proper human trafficking training. I thought I would give my thoughts on what to look for in selecting the proper training for you.?My first question would be what is the target audience??Is the audience the public, or is it front line workers like police officers, probation officers, prosecutors, or advocates? For the public, an awareness-based training that highlights basic indicators of trafficking and who to call if they suspect trafficking is sufficient. This training is offered everywhere, and the information is boiler plate and basic. For key first responders, awareness-based training is not sufficient. They need skills-based training.?These training courses may provide some crossover with the basic information of awareness-based training (like indicators) but they go much further to provide the skills that the officers will need. Skills-based training will cover things like how to gather evidence, interviewing a potential trafficking victim, searching phones, PTSD, trauma bonding, tattoos, forced criminality and many other things they will need to do to actually help the victim *and* build a criminal case against the trafficker. These types of training are rare and few know how to provide them.?So how do you determine who can provide a good skills-based training? First, call around.?Find other places that have had this training and ask them what they thought of the training.?Ask the provider for a list of former clients, they should be able happy to provide that. Second, consider if they are busy??A good provider should be booked 6 months plus out, if they are not, my question would be why? Third, what is the experience level of the instructors??When I was a detective, we used to say that a new detective needs at least two years in that job to be worth a darn.?How many cases did they work??You have no business teaching other officers about trafficking if you have only investigated a handful of cases.?Are the instructors a good mix of law enforcement, survivors, financial, and other fields relevant to trafficking? Fourth, how much do they charge??This is often something most don’t think about, but if the training is good and sought after it will generally cost more money.?Training courses that are free or cost very little most often mean they are providing generic, awareness-based information, or they aren’t very good.?With many things in life, you get what you pay for. Lastly, do they refer to themselves as a trafficking subject matter expert??I am going to make an entire post about this, but my argument is there is no such thing and if they don’t understand that then I would look somewhere else for my training. Overall, awareness-based trafficking training is good for the public but not the police or front-line workers. These folks need strong skills-based training to make any difference to helping victims of human trafficking.?Make sure you vet who you hire.

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    One of the questions that I get asked all the time is about the HTTC board of directors. I tell them that we do not have a board because we are not a non-profit.?People are always surprised. When Alison Phillips and I started the Human Trafficking Training Center in 2021 we did not want the HTTC to be a non-profit for a variety of reasons.?The first reason is we had both just left the government and our feelings were that the government is just not accountable and therefore never changes and in general is not successful.?Our feelings were that if we were a for profit business that we would have to provide a great product, or no one would buy it and we should go bankrupt.?This forces you to continue to improve yourself and your product to grow.?If we do not do these things capitalism will take its toll and we will be out of business.?When the government is not successful it does not matter, the tax dollars just keep rolling in and there is no incentive to change or grow and there is almost never accountability. Having been in this field for years I have also seen this with non-profits.?Some are great and are good stewards of the donors’ dollars and are saving lives.?Many are not, they waste much of the donors’ dollars, the money goes missing or is spent on things that would make your head spin.?For example, in 2023 I know four CEOs of non-profits that were let go for a variety of reasons.?Missing money, spending money on first class airfare and 5-star restaurants, buying themselves a BMW with donor money, buying their girlfriend “New Breasts” with donor money, using donor money to fund their autobiography, hiring their family members and in-laws and the list goes on and on.?There were also the non-profits that lost funding due to the fact they were making up their stats on what they were doing, or just flat out lying to their donors about what they were doing.?When you are spending and using other people’s money, it is easy to get caught up in bad decisions and forget why we are here in the first place.?It becomes a job, a career choice and no longer a calling. Have I mentioned all the competition over funders which unfortunately leads to backbiting, fighting, attempts to hurt the “competition” so that others can get more funding. How about the fighting over grants.?The current system is just not conducive to success.?We are fighting among ourselves as much as we are fighting the traffickers.?Human Trafficking is turning into an “Industry” where we don’t really want to fix the problem, because then we would be out of a job.?Human Trafficking is going to become like the poverty industry if we are not careful, no incentive to fix the problem.? Complaints about non-profits and who people should give their money to is the second most asked question I get.?I have been burned several times by non-profits I trusted only to find out they were using money on crazy stuff or just did not know where their money was even going.?This all makes me sad.???

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    Turkey season opened this week in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri so been up at 346 and Turkey hunting from sun up till about noon and spending the rest of my time returning calls, emails, setting up trainings, and all the other stuff behind the scenes. Yesterday I received a call from an officer in the northeast who has been trying so hard to work a case on an illicit massage business. Six months in and he is still not been successful but his approaches have all been outdated and followed the previous years models that have never been successful. We have a long conversation about the business model, the Four Corner Strategy and how to dismantle these operations. He was very appreciative and said that he had never been taught any of this stuff in over 20 years of being in law enforcement. A couple hours later I received a call from a Homeland Security Agent who had talked with the officer and wanted to put me on speaker phone so some other agents could hear and go over this same information. I did for the next hour and again they were super appreciative and stated they understood they have been going about these cases incorrectly and are going to change their way of investigationg. How do we expect law enforcement to be successful when we don’t give them the tools to be successful? Answer: They won’t be!!! #training #police #humantrafficking #lawenforcement #policetraining

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    We are at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri today teaching human trafficking investigations to officers, deputies, probation, social services and child advocacy. This class teaches the officers how to properly investigate these types of cases using the Special Victims Methodology, how to and where to locate evidence, including financial evidence and how to get the case through prosecution. #humantrafficking #police #policetraining #training #lawenforcement

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    Meghan Connors and I are in St Louis today teaching human trafficking interdiction to police officers, deputies, probation, CPS and advocates. I know I keep saying it but if we want to move the needle we have to provide skills based training to the police. Thanks to St Charles County Police for hosting us and to Amy Robins for setting this training up and recognizing how important this is. #policetraining #lawenforcement #training #lawenforcementtraining #humantrafficking

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