The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP), in partnership with HEAL Trafficking (HEAL), the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), and the HHS SOAR Coordinating Group, is proud to announce that a launch event will be held on September 17, 2021, from 3:30–5 p.m. Eastern to celebrate the release of the Core Competencies for Human Trafficking Response in Health Care and Behavioral Health Systems report.
These core competencies pinpoint skill sets that behavioral health and health care practitioners (HCP) should acquire to identify, respond to, and serve individuals who have experienced or are at risk of trafficking.
Through OTIP, the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center facilitated a 3-year process to develop the competencies with the aforementioned partners. These evidence-based core competencies outline actions that individual HCPs, organizations, researchers, and educators need to take to improve health outcomes for individuals who have experienced or are at risk of trafficking. The core competencies aim to improve the prevention and identification of and response to human trafficking and institutionalize evidence-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approaches to this critical public health issue.
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