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Trafficking Screening Tools
Type: Tip Sheet
Offers a list of screening tools for identifying youth at risk for sex trafficking.
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NCTSN Resources
The following resources on Child Sex Trafficking were developed by the NCTSN.
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Child Sex Trafficking: Experiences of Youth Who Have Been Trafficked
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers information about the experiences of youth who have been trafficked. This fact sheet provides lists of experiences that youth may have endured prior to being trafficked, while being trafficked, and/or after being trafficked.
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Child Sex Trafficking: What You Might Not Know
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides a list of common misconceptions about child sex trafficking and uses facts to address those misconceptions.
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Child Sex Trafficking: Who is Vulnerable to Being Trafficked?
Type: Fact Sheet
Discusses the complex interplay of societal, community, relationship, and individual factors that increase a youth's risk of being trafficked. This fact sheet offers information about youth whose experiences make them more vulnerable to being trafficked.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Sex and Labor Trafficking
Type: Fact Sheet
Describes how the impact and consequences of COVID-19 increase the risk of involvement in sex or labor trafficking. This fact sheet offers infromation on what you can do as a provider and how to support yourself.
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Keeping Secrets: Family Communication After Trauma
Type: Webinar
Looks back at Jordyn. Since disclosing her sexual exploitation experiences in a previous session, Jordyn continues to attend therapy sessions to address her distress symptoms; depression and PTSD.
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Promoting Trauma-Informed Policies and Practices to Address Child Sex Trafficking
Type: Webinar
Gives examples of state and federal policy issues related to child sex trafficking. This webinar provides an overview of activities and resources related to child sex trafficking.
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Core Data Set Policy Brief: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth
Type: Fact Sheet
Discusses a study comparing a clinical CSEC cohort with a clinical group of youth who had no reported involvement in prostitution, but had a history of sexual abuse/assault. Updated May 2021.
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The 12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families...
Type: Fact Sheet
Outlines and describes a range of points that practitioners and agencies should consider as they strive to assess, understand, and assist trauma-exposed children, families, and communities in trauma-informed ways.
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Understanding and Addressing Trauma and Child Sex Trafficking: Policy Brief
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides policymakers and other stakeholders with an overview of child sex trafficking and its relationship to child trauma, as well as policy-relevant and child trauma-focused recommendations to assist them in their response to child sex trafficking. Updated March 2021.
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America's Child Soldiers: Gang Violence, Trafficking, and Trauma
Type: Webinar
Explores the conditions that contribute to youth affiliation with armed groups, including racialized structural and economic violence, individual and community traumatization, and high-risk behavioral adaptations to chronic violence.
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NCTSN Impact Newsletter: Spring 2016
Type: Newsletter
Describes integrating behavioral health services in rural and urban Native American communities, outlines the story of healing for three survivors of child sex trafficking, and other highlights.