NCFY Recommends: Preparing Staff to Work With Trafficked Youth

Thousands of youth in the United States are trafficked for sex every year. The issue affects every community, and youth-serving agencies can prepare their staff members to serve exploited youth well. The Polaris Project, a Washington, DC, organization that fights both sex trafficking and labor trafficking, offers resources that can help:

• A slideshow targeted to service providers, which provides background information on trafficking and addresses the challenges to serving trafficked youth and adults, such as identifying and finding victims. 
• A downloadable assessment form to help service providers better identify and support victims.

You might also want to check out NCFY's primer on domestic trafficking, "Bought and Sold."