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This training will explore the importance of housing as it relates to the sex trafficking crisis within tribal communities, particularly how being unhoused acts as one of the largest risk factors for trafficking. Housing justice for both preventative and aftercare purposes will be discussed as working solutions to the crisis.
Objectives:
- Convey the significance of housing as a key risk factor for trafficking victims, both in preventing trafficking and providing exit strategies for trafficking victims
- What makes housing so important? Why do so many communities lack access to permanent and affordable housing? Answering these questions through the lens of institutional oppression and how the risk factors associated with it makes our relatives vulnerable to trafficking
- Understand how systematic violence towards unhoused and marginalized populations contributes to the crisis of trafficking within Indigenous communities
- What does housing justice look like? How does housing our relatives make them safer? Answering these questions to better understand preventative justice through permanent and affordable housing
- Communicate the importance of housing as an exit strategy, why access to housing remains incredibly restricted for vulnerable populations and unhoused relatives, especially among those experiencing addiction
Intended Audience: Direct service providers and advocates on New Mexico tribal lands, particularly those working with victims and survivors of sex trafficking and their dependent children, as well as those working with unhoused populations within the field of housing justice or who are interested in housing justice.
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