1. New Directions
Chapter 12

2. Criminal Justice System Recommendations
Education and training is necessary to avoid criminalization of survivors or misreporting as another crime, and to increase identification. Educating and training officers to recognize sex trafficking when confronted with in, in the course of investigations for random traffic stops, as well as in commonly co-occurring crimes, is recommended.
A survivor-centered/victim centered approach in both policing and in the prosecution process is called for.
Immigration reform- To address vulnerability of undocumented immigrants, providing additional resources and easing the immigration process is recommended to avoid criminalization and to reduce vulnerability.

3. Criminal Justice System Recommendations
Safe Harbor laws to eliminate criminalization of sex-trafficked children, and other laws that work to ameliorate the penalties that impede those in the commercial sex industry from moving into new areas of their lives is also necessary.
This means policy shifts to support decriminalizing the sale of sex, consistent with both the goals of abolitionists and neoliberals, liberal and radical feminists alike. This is a first step, and area of agreement among most groups.

4. Community Awareness Recommendations
Education and training of those likely to come into contact with trafficked/ exploited people in hotels, truck stops, travel plazas, other facets of the transportation industry, hospitals, planned parenthood, health clinics, youth services, rape and sexual assault services, domestic violence/IPV services, child protective services, foster care, juvenile justice facilities, healthcare and social service settings, as well as ordinary citizens.
We must listen to the voices of those who are most affected, including survivors of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, and sex workers.
Evaluate the commonly reported indicators for flaws.
Education and Awareness campaigns must be accurate, non-sensationalized, non-re-exploitive of survivors, and inclusive.
It’s time to drop the “everyone is at equal risk” model. It’s demonstrably false and exclusionary.

5. Recommendations for Social Service Provision
Increased funding for service provision
More research evaluating promising practices
Increased access to services for LGBTQ* people
Social service provision must also include resources for long term needs, such as education or job skills training, long-term or transitional housing, employment assistance, legal services, and social services.

6. Outreach and Prevention
Identify high-risk groups, which are disproportionately lower class African American and Latina/os, Native American women and girls, LGBTQ* youth, homeless and runaway youth for targeted prevention and outreach
Outreach materials must reflect the populations they are intended to address. Images on posters should reflect a diversity of racial and ethnic groups, as well as sex and gender identities, or should otherwise match the populations that are being targeted in specific regions.
Inclusive language on such materials, such as specifically highlighting that an organization welcomes transgender individuals, or is a safe zone for anyone of LGBTQ* status, is important in reaching this population.
Moreover, images should be relatable to trafficked/CSE people. Avoiding chains, ropes, barcodes, and other common images used in the anti-trafficking world is imperative in outreach to trafficked and exploited people.
Wording should also include language that survivors would be likely to identify with, like “the life” or selling sex, not slavery or sex trafficking.

7. BOLSTER SOCIAL SAFETY NETS and Address Weak Social Institutions
Increase access to healthcare, including care related to substance abuse and mental health, affordable medications, and access to transgender-specific healthcare needs. Support Universal Healthcare and expansion of medicaid under ObamaCare.
Address economic vulnerability- increase financial assistance to prevent poverty, including those which lessen child poverty (welfare benefits), daycare subsidies, providing a minimum wage as a living wage, and revert tax breaks for the wealthy, caused by misguided tax policy implemented in the early 2000s, which has resulted in cuts to social services. Initiatives to eradicate homelessness.
Support equal opportunity and access to education- Redesign K-12 education, and inequality in school funding by equal distribution of property tax revenue.
Increase funding for social services to address child abuse and intimate partner violence, as these are often precursors to running away and resulting pimp-exposure.

8. What can YOU Do?
Green Dot- Originally started as a bystander intervention response to Violence Against Women on college campuses.
Others have applied it to sex trafficking responses.
We all have a role we can play.
The idea is to meet people where they are.
Each individual can decide what their role will be.

9. The Green Dot Project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4iZ_6KXvFY
Green Dot, Campus Video Example
Dorothy Edwards

10. What’s Your Green Dot?
Be educated in this area– you’ve started by reading this book.
Continue the conversation- Educate your friends
Join your local anti-trafficking coalition, if there isn’t one, consider starting one.
Alternatively, if you are a student, add anti-trafficking sessions to your already-existing student club(s)

11. What’s Your Green Dot?
4. Contact your governor and state representatives, as well as your federal representatives and senators. Tell them that you care about the issues that are intertwined with sex trafficking and want to support the funding to address them. 5. Such efforts are often referred to as social justice efforts. 6. Addressing social inequalities is both a cultural issue and a social issue. Culturally, this means changing hearts and minds. Education, conversation, mentorship, and leading by example are ways of contributing to cultural shifts..

12. Discussion Questions
1. Draft a letter to your senators and representatives, who sit on our U.S. Congress, indicating the actions you would like taken to address sex trafficking. Discuss with the class. Send it to your congresspersons by finding their contact forms here: 2. View this Green Dot Campus Video What will your Greet Dot be?