Human Trafficking Prevention: Strategies for RHY Settings

It also highlights the importance of integrating public health, trauma-informed, and positive youth development principles into human trafficking interventions.

In addition to highlighting human trafficking (HT) risk factors, the brief offers a variety of HT prevention components that can be easily integrated into programmatic activities, such as discussing with youth how to recognize a "too good to be true" job or building safety nets to support RHY.

This issue brief also emphasizes the importance of addressing the root causes and social conditions in which runaway and homeless youth become vulnerable to human trafficking, violence, and exploitation.

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• Resource Publication Date: 2021
• Author(s): Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB)
• Organizational Author(s): US Department of Health and Human Services
• Posted by: Robin Gwathney
• Posted in: Youth Connections