Presenters will provide a look into the Adult Advocacy Centers (AACs). The Adult Advocacy Centers are the first centers that will be equipped to provide holistic, accessible, and trauma-informed services to adult crime victims with disabilities in a universal and multi-sensory environment. The AACs will work in partnership with state, regional, and community agencies to coordinate a response that promotes the safety and well-being of all individuals. To provide these services, the AACs will facilitate multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) within local communities. A deeper look into this unique approach to victim services will assist participates in understanding best practices for survivors.

Presentation Objectives:

· Describe the Adult Advocacy Center model

· Discuss how communities can work together to form a multi-disciplinary team to have a holistic response with this model

· Explain how a universal and multi-sensory building design allows for truly inclusive services for crime victims

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Reconnecting back to life after selling your body to different people isn’t easy. Renee Jones survived human trafficking, and she will share her life story on how she got in it and how she got out. Renee will explain using role play and a short film on how the police handle her as well as other victims. Renee will break down the names that pimps, tricks, and the law enforcement use on the streets. Renee will breakdown the tricks that are used on social media with something as simple as a flattering comment on Facebook. Renee has documents from 1983 to 1987 from the courts of New York City to Cleveland, Ohio of each of her human trafficking cases that she would like to explain how victims are handle, charged, and booked for human trafficking. Renee will conclude the presentation with the grooming process, how and why pimps use their women to hunt other girls for them, and how pimps build trust and chip you away from other relationships.

Presentation Objectives:

· Discuss the survivor's lived experience

· Describe ways a person would get into and out of human trafficking

· Present court documents from three states showing how each state handled human trafficking cases

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Presenters will provide a look into the Adult Advocacy Centers (AACs). The Adult Advocacy Centers are the first centers that will be equipped to provide holistic, accessible, and trauma-informed services to adult crime victims with disabilities in a universal and multi-sensory environment. The AACs will work in partnership with state, regional, and community agencies to coordinate a response that promotes the safety and well-being of all individuals. To provide these services, the AACs will facilitate multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) within local communities. A deeper look into this unique approach to victim services will assist participates in understanding best practices for survivors.

Presentation Objectives:

· Describe the Adult Advocacy Center model

· Discuss how communities can work together to form a multi-disciplinary team to have a holistic response with this model

· Explain how a universal and multi-sensory building design allows for truly inclusive services for crime victims

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In recent years, the phenomenon of the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) has primarily centered on the victimization of girls and young women. The research has focused on gender-specific victims. But sexual victimization is universal and not gender-specific, affecting both girls and boys. The sexual exploitation and trafficking of boys and young men is a pervasive - though often invisible - problem worldwide, including in the United States. It affects its victims' health and ability to thrive, and leads to a host of psychosocial, medical, and environmental problems. It nevertheless continues to be largely ignored and denied by social and governmental agencies. However, research has begun to untangle the multiple factors that lead to the sex trafficking of boys, from a poly-victimization (including sexual victimization), to homelessness, to multi-generational participation in prostitution, to lack of screening by appropriate agencies due to the false belief that boys are not victimized. The recognition of male victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation is now only emerging in the public consciousness. In all its abusive forms, it begs for further exploration and training from a multi-disciplinary perspective to bring this to the forefront of providers for the benefit of service needed for this population. Attendees will learn factors that contribute to the sexual exploitation of males, ways in which males identify living the “Life”, and services need to support males from exiting the “Life”.

Presentation Objectives:

· Discuss risk factors of CSEC/trafficking of males

· Describe ways in which males define living the "Life"

· Explain the services males need to support exiting the "Life"

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Human trafficking and prostitution are deemed to be one of the biggest social problems in Ethiopia today. A review of the literature indicates that rarely do scholars consider the link between local sex trafficking and street-prostitution. Additionally, that research which is available has inadvertently limited the knowledge and understanding of these two interrelated social concerns. This study aimed to build knowledge filling identified gaps. The research was positioned through a Radical Feminism theoretical framework, documenting the narrative lived-experiences of ten street-prostitutes. Participants took part in three separate interview sessions aimed at discussing the three original research questions (part of the larger study). These interviews resulted in a total of thirty recorded cassettes of participant narratives. Due to the scale of the overall qualitative data, this presentation will focus on a subset of the overall research. The subset identified here is that which clarifies and discusses the relationships maintained by women in street-prostitution. Applying the term “relationships” in discussion with street prostitution is not common to begin with, not to mention to concept that a prostitute is capable of relationships. This presentation will elucidate that misconception as well as identify relationships as seen through the eyes of prostitutes. Areas of relationships include law enforcement, street vagabonds, crime addicted individuals, male customers, protectors, and with other street-prostitutes. In this way, the presentation brings light to human experiences of those involved in street prostitution and in turn underscores the humanity of prostitutes.

Presentation Objectives:

· Describe street-prostitution in Ethiopia

· Discuss how narrative stories of women in street-prostitution are a valid and needed contribution to research and literature endeavors

· Explore the humanity of street-prostitutes, particularly through the lens of relationship development

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