WEEK ONE: Issue Areas 1 & 2
We are excited to kick off the first week of the JuST LIVE! State Action. National Change. webinar series on this Wednesday, October 7 and Friday, October 9. Each day throughout the webinar series focuses on one of six Issue Areas addressed under the Advanced Legislative Framework.
Presentations will be keyed to critical aspects of advancing protections for child victims under each issue area.
This week we will be focusing on Issue Area 1: Criminal Provisions and Issue Area 2: Identification of and Response to Victims with the following scheduled presentations:
All times listed below are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Issue Area 1: Criminal Provisions
October 7, 12 - 1:30 PM: Behind Barred Doors (The Clyde Vanterpool Case Study)
October 7, 2 - 3:30 PM: Sex Trafficking of Men and Boys
Issue Area 2: Identification of and Response to Victims
October 9, 12 - 1:30 PM: Policy and Practice: Discussing Child Welfare's Important Role in Addressing Sex Trafficking
October 9, 2 - 3:30 PM: In the Beginning: How Intergenerational Trauma and Traumatic Childhood Attachment Impact the Healing Journey
We hope you consider joining us! Registration for the JuST LIVE! State Action. National Change. webinar series is FREE! You can register for as many webinars in the series as you would like. To register, simply add each item to your cart and be sure to check-out. Not sure which webinars you’d like to attend now? No worries, you can always register for more at a later date.
For more information, visit webinars.sharedhope.org or check out our FAQ!
What is the Advanced Legislative Framework?
It is comprised of the provisions that are still needed in state law to ensure a just response is provided to minor victims of sex trafficking. It builds on the foundation established over the past 10 years by Shared Hope's Protected Innocence Challenge legislative framework, which has been used to grade the states every year since 2011. The Protected Innocence Challenge project was our vision for motivating states to improve legislation that impacts the sex trafficking of minors. Ten years of grassroots mobilization, advocacy,
technical assistance, and consistent collaboration has advanced the vision considerably.
All states now have a child sex trafficking law and most states have made significant progress in enacting laws that protect victims and hold perpetrators accountable; collectively, the country has made significant progress in those matters. However, little has been done to address and fund specialized services for victims or adequately address root causes such as demand. The past decade has also led to new research and opportunities to listen to survivors, bringing ever increasing clarity to the law and policy that must be in place to actually, finally, put an end to the sex trafficking of minors. It became clear that now is the time to raise the bar and challenge states to enact an advanced framework of laws for the protection of child sex trafficking victims.
To stay up to date on this exciting project, sign up here to guarantee the Framework will be delivered directly to you the moment it is released on November 18th!
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