Abstract
In recent years, federal and state laws have recognized that children are vulnerable to human trafficking, especially commercial sexual exploitation. Youth in foster care have experienced a number of traumatic experiences that make them particularly vulnerable to being trafficked. In response to federal and state legislation, promising practices and system interventions have been developed to better identify and provide services to trafficked, exploited, and vulnerable youth in foster care. Effective system responses are multi-disciplinary, survivor-centered, and flexible to the needs of vulnerable and exploited children and youth.
Keywords
- Human trafficking
- Sex trafficking
- Labor trafficking
- Commercial sexual exploitation of children
- Child trafficking
- Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act
- Child welfare
- Foster care
- Continuum of care
- Trauma-informed care
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In Chapter 5 titled “The Ignored Exploitation: Labor Trafficking in the United States” the affiliation of the author Susie Baldwin has been updated to read as “HEAL Trafficking, P.O. Box 31602, 3001 North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90031, USA, e-mail: SBaldwin@healtrafficking.org”.
Notes
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The law specifically addresses sex trafficking of minors, and does not comment on labor trafficking of children.
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“Two or More Races” refers to persons who reported more than one of the six race categories defined by the Census Bureau and persons who self-selected “multiple-race” on the 2010 Census.
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“Hispanic” or “Latino” refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish-language culture or origin, regardless of race.
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“LGBTQ” is an acronym inclusive of persons of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning experience.
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Wrap-Around services is a series of services that address each of the youth’s needs, including physical, mental, emotional, health, and educational supports [89].
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Hannan, M., Martin, K., Caceres, K., Aledort, N. (2017). Children at Risk: Foster Care and Human Trafficking. In: Chisolm-Straker, M., Stoklosa, H. (eds) Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47824-1_7
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