New Fact Sheet Series! Provides Information Regarding Child Sex Trafficking for Child-Serving Providers
This fact sheet series defines child sex trafficking, vulnerability to trafficking depending on different factors, its relation to trauma, and what professionals need to know and can do to support youth who have or are experiencing child sex trafficking.

Child Sex Trafficking: A Fact Sheet for Child Welfare Professionals
Offers information regarding child sex trafficking to child welfare professionals.

Child Sex Trafficking: A Fact Sheet for Educational Professionals
Offers information regarding child sex trafficking to educational professionals.

Child Sex Trafficking: A Fact Sheet for Juvenile Justice Professionals  
Offers information regarding child sex trafficking to juvenile justice professionals.

Child Sex Trafficking: A Fact Sheet for Medical Professionals  
Offers information regarding child sex trafficking to medical professionals.

New Translation: Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) Field Operations Guide (in Serbian)  
Gives guidance on responding to disaster, violence, or terrorism events using the Skills for Psychological Recovery intervention. This approach helps to assist children, adolescents, adults, and families in the aftermath of disaster and terrorism. The manual includes in-depth information about each of the six core skills and accompanying handouts for survivors. Now available in Serbian.

Psychological First Aid for Schools (PFA-S) Field Operations Guide (in Serbian)  
Provides guidance on responding to disaster, violence, or terrorism events using the Psychological First Aid intervention. This version gives school administrators, educators, and staff practical assistance to meet immediate needs and concerns, reduce distress, and foster adaptive coping in the wake of a disaster. The manual includes in-depth information about each of the eight core actions and accompanying handouts for administrators, school staff, educators, students, and parents and caregivers. Now available in Serbian.

Trauma Training for Early Childhood (TTEC)  
Trauma Training for Early Childhood (TTEC) Online is a 4-hour interactive course that provides core concepts on trauma and young children in 15–20-minute lesson segments. This course complements and expands on other early childhood curriculums while uniquely centering issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion using a relational lens. This course is appropriate for any professional who has contact with young children and/or their families. The first module is available now, with three additional modules coming soon.

The Child Welfare Traumameter (CWT)  
The NYU Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation has developed the Child Welfare Traumameter (CWT), a collection of organizational assessment tools and processes that supported the evaluation and implementation of trauma-informed practices within public and private agencies that provides child welfare services (e.g., child protection, preventive and/or foster care services). The CWT can be used to support trauma-informed practices across an agency, or for specific programs within an agency. The goal of the CWT is to help child welfare programs fully integrate a “trauma lens” into their day-to-day activities. It does this by operationalizing different aspects of trauma-informed care, helping agencies identify areas of practice that are currently lacking a trauma focus, and providing agencies with a way to measure the change in their practice over time.

My Life My Choice: Survivor-Centered Approaches to Treating Complex Trauma:
A Training for Mental Health Care Providers  
This brand new 10-week online certificate program is designed for mental health care providers working with youth and young adults who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). When treating survivors of CSE, it is critical to treat the whole person including the traumas that happened prior to exploitation. Oftentimes, a therapist may not know they are treating a survivor of CSE because it is only part of their story.

Sesame Workshop: Parental Addiction
Resources and support for families struggling with a parent’s addiction. This website features videos to start conversations, answer children’s questions, and guide children through difficult moments.

Polaris: Human Trafficking 101 Training
This free introductory course, Human Trafficking 101, provides information on what human trafficking is, how it happens, and how to be part of the solution. The interactive, online training program includes six short modules, as well as survivor stories, and quizzes designed to deepen understanding of the issue.

RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Attachment in Supervision: Using a Relational Lens to Understand Supervisory Dynamics, authored by Salam Soliman, introduces a relational model of supervision based on attachment theory using the Circle of Security as a model for understanding supervisory dynamics. The article briefly reviews attachment theory and the historical context of clinical supervision and provides a brief discussion regarding the importance of ongoing supervision as a way to support frontline staff and mitigate the impact of secondary traumatic stress and burnout. Applying concepts from reflective supervision and attachment theory, the article introduces the Supervisor’s Circle of Security and presents a matrix model of supervisor—supervisee relationships, lending 16 possible attachment combinations for the dyad. Potential presentations of each of the dyadic compositions is discussed followed by clinical vignettes.

A Socioecological Approach to Understanding Secondary Trauma in Professionals Working with Survivors of Sex Trafficking: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis, authored by Ginny Sprang, Adrienne Whitt-Woosley, Jessica Wozniak, Stephanie Gusler, Caitlyn Hood, Kelly Kinnish, and Hannah Stroup, examines the STS symptoms of professionals working with survivors of sex trafficking utilizing a socioecological framework to guide the design and analysis. Individuals who are trafficked for sex have high rates of trauma exposure prior to and while being trafficked; therefore, professionals who work with this population are potentially exposed to high levels of trauma details increasing their risk of developing secondary traumatic stress (STS). An online survey was completed by 583 respondents from a broad range of organizational settings who completed measures tapping into STS symptoms, lifetime trauma exposures, history of being sex-trafficked, dose of direct and indirect trauma exposure at work, use of emotional and instrumental support to cope, state report cards on sex trafficking policies, and organizational-level practices toward being STS informed. STS scores among professionals working with survivors of sex trafficking were high, with those in child welfare settings reporting the highest levels of STS. Hierarchical regression analysis indicates higher STS was associated with variables at all levels of the socioecological model except the macrosystem, with fewer years of experience, a history of being sex trafficked, higher dose of indirect exposure, less use of emotional support, and lower organizational STS scores predictive of higher distress. Together, study findings indicate that STS is a significant concern in the anti-trafficking workforce and that a socioecological framework is useful for understanding STS impacts, highlighting the value of multiple response strategies across levels. This analysis suggests that organizational-level strategies to ameliorate/buffer impacts of occupation-related trauma exposure among these professionals can be especially impactful.

 

   

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This project was funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS.