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Friday, May 13, 2011

REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED FOR Advanced Training on Human Trafficking on June 9th in Rockford, Illinois

Please join The Salvation Army STOP-IT Program and the International Organization for Adolescents for an advanced level training on trauma-informed services and motivational interviewing in the context of serving victims of human trafficking. Learn best practices for working with traumatized and ambivalent clients from featured guest speaker, Dr. Michael Smith. Dr. Smith has been actively engaged in combating human trafficking since joining The Salvation Army six years ago. His clinical background is in working with sexual trauma and sexual offenders. His recent research has focused on trauma-informed services to trafficking survivors.
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
DATE AND TIME: 
Thursday, June 9, 2011 
Free Lunch with RSVP at 12:00 pm 
Training workshop from 1:00 pm — 4:00 pm


LOCATION:  
The Salvation Army 
Rockford Temple Corps 
500 S Rockford Ave 
Rockford, IL 61104  


IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS TRAINING OR ABOUT REGISTRATION, CONTACT SEHLA ASHAI AT SASHAI@IOFA.ORG OR AT (312) 857-3452.



Thursday, May 5, 2011

IOFA Executive Director, Shelby French, Interviewed on Zonta Women's Community Radio

IOFA had the wonderful opportunity to share our work and talk about the impact of human trafficking with Zonta Women's Community Radio yesterday via WVOX in New York and the global Zonta network. Zonta International is an international organization of professionals working together to improve the status of women & girls through service and advocacy.


Click hear to listen!



Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Building Child Welfare Response to Child Trafficking Handbook is here!

IOFA is thrilled to announce the release of its ground-breaking publication, the Building Child Welfare Response to Child Trafficking Handbook! Special thanks go out to the Chicago Community Trust for its generous support and to the Loyola University Center for the Human Rights of Children (CHRC).

The handbook is a critical tool that forms part of IOFA and CHRC's joint initiative to train and prepare child protection and child welfare organizations to identify and receive child trafficking victims. While the criminal justice system has been targeted nationwide for intensive training and capacity building in human trafficking investigations, child protection and child welfare agencies have been unprepared to receive these victims, resulting in a critical gap in the identification of victims and provision of services.

This comprehensive guide seeks to fill that gap by providing invaluable information and resources to child protection and child welfare workers who seek to serve child trafficking victims within their governmental or non-governmental agencies. IOFA and CHRC also builds agencies' capacity to serve child trafficking victims through the provision of training, technical assistance, and detailed review of existing training programs, policies and procedures within existing child protection frameworks.

We welcome any and all feedback on the handbook, and if you would like to learn more about how IOFA can assist you agency in the development of effective responses to child trafficking, please contact us!

Monday, May 2, 2011

IOFA's research featured in PenhPal

IOFA was asked to submit an article to the Cambodian online news source, PenhPal, to highlight our recent research. Visit http://www.penhpal.com/ngos/cambodian-youth-leaving-orphanage-care/. We are excited about and committed to building awareness on this issue - please share the link and help us in our efforts.

Susan Rosas
Program Development Intern