light because they can be a remarkable disinfectant for this crime. >> final word. >> i think where we are right now is we're on the verge of a real transformation in law-enforcement culture to recognizing that the things that initially distracted us and prevented us from recognizing victims are the very things we need to be focusing on and seeing them as the vulnerabilities the traffickers exploit. we're getting there. we are really starting to say hey, if they were already engaged in commercial sex, that doesn't mean they are not a victim. that means they were lower hanging fruit. the trafficker can then manipulate them for the traffickers profit. more easily than recruiting somebody from a stable, loving home and a bright future of education and appointment opportunities. they go for the folks who are already struggling, who are

already exposed to some kind of instability in their lives, and there was a time when law enforcement across the country would say that can't be a trafficking victim because she was pretty prosecuted. they are now saying let me look at the trafficker exploited the vulnerability. there were times when law enforcement across the country would say a jury in my district will not believe an undocumented woman who knowingly came to this country illegally and did some knowing she would prostitute because that's just an illegal prostitute that's not going to be a sympathetic jury. now we are seeing people say wait a minute, there is somebody behind this who facilitate that whole smuggling and prostitution scheme by manipulating this victim and knowing that she was not inclined to speak out and would not turn to authorities for help precisely because of those attitudes. that's what we are transferring when data time one case at a time when survivor anytime and i

look for to continuing to do that. >> thank you to all our panelists. [applause] >> now back to live coverage of the justice department conference on human trafficking. >> i will each of the panels take a few minutes to introduce themselves, talk about what works and specific what kind of work they are doing. i'd like to start with you. in addition so you talk to us about what brought into this field and what you do day in and day out. >> thank you. thank you so much for having here today. it's truly an honor to be here with you guys. thank you for understanding how important it is to have survivor speak on this issue. it is different than a few years ago and so this is just an exciting day for me to be here

and just to share with you guys what we're doing and atlanta. i am a survivor as you guys well now. i entered the life 20 years ago and had been out 14. i am a graduate of the wellspring living program and now and the program coordinator of the same program. we changed a little bit over the years. currently we serve women ages 18-32. 18-32. we have a 16 bit facility. our program is 12-18 months long. we really do go from the initial stability, safety, sobriety, all the way through hopefully living wage employment, and independent is our ultimate goal so the women don't have to go back to the life that they came from. we do have a licensed professional therapists that works on our staff that as one individual specialist with the one in each they do three groups a week with the therapist.

we also work on skills so things like dialect behavioral therapy teaches that women they don't have to run away from things when they feel uncomfortable. we hope to empower them to really ask question and use their voice and stand up and be something different. we have comprehensive care as i mentioned. i think one of the most important things for our organization is survivor leadership. constantly asking what do you think about this? what doesn't the survivor said? we have a few survivors who work in organization and is is rather impresses i think we been around for a long time so we made a lot of mistakes. when i was in the program we did not have any resources for employment after the program. nobody would hire me. i didn't have any kind of work

experience apart from waitressing working in a restaurant, and wellspring decide they're going to give me the opportunity to prove myself for lack of a better word and starting out as a cashier at a retail store. thankfully the women currently go to a program don't have to go through that anymore. we have built a partnership with higher hope and they get living wage jobs and a corporate setting. offer paid apprenticeships for the ladies did it really does build their confidence and prove to them that are worth it. people give them a chance no matter what the background looks like i what their work history might look like. and some going to pass it off to mary frances so she can speak more about the academy if that's okay. >> mary frances, and i got into this book almost by accident. we were working on some issues

that were going on in atlanta and in connecting with a nonprofit, there was a need for residential facility. we thought we were just going to help that organization get it started but about 30 days into it he became ours. the very first young woman over 16 16 years ago who walk through our doors was a survivor of trafficking. really we didn't know what we are doing anyway and we really didn't know what to do with her. and so she taught us everything we need to know. one of the things that's most important i think for someone that's going to be involved with survivors into understand there are a lot of complex needs. as you heard in the panels earlier. and so we look at how we can look at the person. how can you take care of their mind, body and spiritual needs? how can we comprehensively provide the things that are most needed by them? and so as andrea said we had a situation where he didn't have

an opportunity to get them into really good employment opportunities because it was hit or miss. because of an executive called me one day and said we want help your women get jobs and they were willing to just do the hard work figuring out okay, what is this going to look like and what do we already have and what can we give you and how can we work together? was pretty unprecedented and we of course learned a lot from each other what is happening now almost four years later is that we are seeing young women come in, over a ten week time frame they're professional development, therapeutic counseling sessions. they're having life skills. they're working alongside caseworkers. they're doing intense case management make you should have everything ready to walk in the door for their professional development. and as we had done that, right

in the middle of our very first session i reached out to the same person again and i said we really need internships. she went to h.r. and a tricky back and said we can't do that but we can do paid apprenticeships. that was music to my ears, and so we said yes, and so they go through ten weeks of really the training and they have 12 weeks of unpaid apprenticeship and because they are connected with other corporations, they will be other opportunities besides just inside to get jobs. also their employees are amazing. they have voluntarily committed to being like a mentor. it's called an advocate and there with the young women when they're going through training, going to the petition with the get the first job. that's also great because that's the job is to get people jobs. that helps our young women getting to implement. we are seeing an 80% employment as a result of that. andrea gets to see so many of

our young women go through this and what that means to didn't get i think you can speak to the medicine i can. >> absolutely. just to see the light come back. they go for the first we can become a like let me tell you what i did today. they are just so excited and have confidence back again. they believe in themselves because somebody else is believing in them. somebody else is saying you can do it. i know this is hard, keep pushing, don't give up. it's almost like an extension or a different arm of what we're doing the home. the academy is well aware of the issues, some of our women face. special in a corporate setting. they are willing to do like mary frances said the hard work and get in and it's not always pretty and it doesn't always look super perfect. on the end the women who go through a program, they go through the program are better off and that's our goal. it's not about how pretty it looks or putting in a box or

making it super cookie-cutter. [inaudible] >> you can hear me, good. i'm jordan, a physician at the children's healthcare of atlanta and the medical director of the institute on health care and human trafficking there. i also work with the national center for missing and exploited children as their medical consultant. my interest is mostly with children and child trafficking and exploitation. most of what i know involves children under 18 but i think a lot of what they see in our practice is mirrored in the adult population as well. we see an extraordinary amount of physical and mental health effects from child and adult trafficking. just to name a few from her own research on our own children in atlanta, about one-third of the girls that we identify the history of pregnancy.

these are kids who are less than 18. almost 50% of them have an active sexually transmitted infection when we see them. that is they have gonorrhea what have chlamydia. a third of them have had a prior history of infection. drug use is very, very common, almost 90% use drugs. in another study of child survivors almost 50% had a drug abuse problem and 75% had postherpetic stress disorder. so when you think a poster manic stress disorder think of vietnam vets of people have been through horrendous things. these kids have poster medic stress disorder as well because they had been through horrendous things themselves. almost 50% reported a prior prior history of a suicide attempt within the last year. these are adolescents. 50% trying to take their own lives. so we know there's tremendous health effects associated with trafficking and exportation. again this is met with the adult population as well. it's incredibly important for

healthcare providers to be aware of the possible indicators of trafficking. there's very good resource to suggest that many victims of sex trafficking in the united states have contact with healthcare providers. in one study of adults and adolescent girls for sex trafficking survivors, 88% said the scene a healthcare provider while there are being exploited. none of them had been identified in the healthcare setting. what does that say to us? it says victims are coming to get healthcare but we are not recognizing them. we have yet to see a victim come in and say my chief complaint, my concern is human trafficking. they don't self disclose spontaneously. it's up to physicians and nurses to be aware of possible indicators and yet we have no training on that. most providers and the united states have never been trained on human trafficking so they have no idea what to look for, what you say, how to act if they

have a concern. we are very concerned about providing a culturally appropriate trauma informed responses to possible trafficking and it's extremely important that the healthcare provider doesn't further traumatize the victim when they come and seek medical care. at the same time we have to be able as questions we can identify victims. it's something that has to be trained. we need to get information to healthcare providers. one of the things i think is extremely important is to not only train healthcare providers about what to look for, what to say but also put into place specific guidelines. think about the clinic you go to when you seek your annual checkup care with emergency department to use the hospital you go to. every one of those places should have a protocol saying this is what you look for. if you see these five things, think about human trafficking. once you think about ask these questions. what you get positive answers make these referrals. do this kind of an exam. think about how good that would

be. thank you. >> well, thank you for having. my name is jeff rogers with the u.s. institute against human trafficking first of all i will just say what i said backstage is that it's an honor as would honor to on a panel with you. every survivor i meet truly changes my life and i can tell you the reason i do what i do is a cousin beating survivors you, andrea. that's why do what it do suck him out of corporate world. i was at ibm for 15 years as long story short my life got rocked with the truth of what's happening in our country around this topic of sex trafficking. ended up founding the u.s. institute against human trafficking with kevin malone who was with us today for kevin is a former general manager of the los angeles dodgers so it comes out of an incredible professional career in baseball and one to two of us got together we started talking about this topic at human trafficking. kevin has now dedicated to it for about eight years. i been dedicated five to six

years and when we met and started talk about the problem one thing we found in common between us is that we truly believe that we can in this problem. so that's the foundation of the organization that we run is that our mission is to intimate trafficking in america. and so it's a bold statement but we do believe we can and we believe as an organization and as a society we must. because of all of the social issues that our society faces, i've got to believe and that's why you today i've got to believe that we collectively can and mass organization rate of our nation's children for profit. of all of the social problems we face we should be able to stop that one. that's where we are at as an organization committed to ending this. as an organization one of the first things we did is we started a safe home for young boys. long story but how to get into that, but we truly couldn't find very many services around the country have dedicated to services for young boys victims of sex trafficking. and so about two years ago we

started the program and we think the open the home, a small residential facility with five beds, for young boys victims of sex trafficking in central florida. these are boys age ten to 17 and the program actually is designed for biologically born males, no matter where they identify on the gender spectrum. that's very important because as we begin to work towards understanding the male population of trafficking victim, boys, what we begin to understand as well is a significant proportion of them that are transgender. it's very important we designed this program to be able to address and take care of any child biologically born male the matter whether at on that gender spectrum. so thankfully we have this that's been running about eight months and the boys are just doing incredibly well. so that is what i like to say on the back end of the problem. so it's the rescue rehabilitation of the survivors

that are trapped up in this and that's extraordinary important. we had to do that. like i sit as an organization our mission is to end this. what we recognize is we will not in human trafficking by opening safe home. >> spirit we must have services in place for the rescue and rehabilitation of the survivors absolutely but if we as a society are going to end this with you to change the approach and we have to add to that approach in the form of to what i consider to be the beginning of the problem. and the focus therefore on demand. in my secure the focus on this problem i've come to an understanding that sex trafficking is a supply answer to demand problem. so the problem lies in the demand. where is the demand coming from? is it something you? the demand for sex isn't something new. that's obvious but the increasing insatiable desire for sexting children emphasize something new and it's running rampant in our society and so where is that coming from? as we focus on demand we are

trying to get to the absolute core of what is this coming from. our friends at the nexus of sexual exploitation are truly leading the charge across the world proving the effects of pornography and are hyper sexualized culture that is driving this insatiable desire for sex and the purchase of sex including that with the children. so they are very strong part of ours, working together, and national jump with many other organizations around the country to begin to identify pornography is a public health crisis. this is something we're also read with the florida legislature on and they think it's going to pass this year in identifying pornography as a public health crisis in the state of florida. we've got to begin to understand the demand and we have to begin to chop off the demint at its feet. so absolutely we need to focus on restoration of survivors absolutely we need to focus on capturing the bad guys, capturing the traffickers. but i will also contend

potentially the greatest amount of focus that our country needs to place right now is on the demand, on the buyers for sex. if we had a scenario where we could rescue every single victim of sex trafficking in the country today, i would contend that tomorrow all we have is an incredible vacuum of supply at the traffickers would absolutely fill within a matter of time. it's a business equation unfortunately for them. we've got to begin to address the demand. how do we do that? we have developed we call a trafficking freezone program. this is an identification of some promising practices around the country. when we look and so i'm looking at this from a business perspective, like a senna came out of ibm. i'm not looking at this as as a social service, from a social services perspective and neither is my cofounder kevin malone look at this. really kevin has been -- his path was building championship teams who is we get this thing

okay can we build and world championship team across this country to end human trafficking. we are looking at this from a business perspective to say what can we as society do differently? one of the things i was content as society from a business a lens is say that this industry is ripe for consolidation get there are thousands of nonprofits appear when you did a better job with all of them working together. one of the things we are dml he focus on is the replication of best practices for the replication of at least promising practices. how kuwait in invited was been successful at a certain slice of the focus area and how can we help them to replicate that rapidly around the country? in the five years, ceq's i've been involved in this certainly more people are becoming aware of the problem and that's a good thing but actually contend that we are still losing this battle. the problem is getting worse. so we've got to change something about our approach and so we are

very focus on this approach of replicating best practices replicating promising practices. so for years we worked to identify who has been successful around this country and certain global geographies, very specifically at fighting demand. we've been able to identify those pockets of success. we pulled in together into a local, it's really a services engagement for local communities to begin to address demand. one of the greatest success we found was up in king county around seattle and the county prosecutor and the amazing work that they have done in order to address demand. i'll tell you one of the things he said so poignantly was that certain communities around the country when the institute something with their criminal justice system they will see some level of benefit from that. or when a community might institute something with her education system. they would see some level of benefit. what they found in king county and what we found elsewhere and of the pockets around the

country is with all of the sectors of society run after demand at the same time that's when the scene a true demonstrable reduction in demand within that community. by pulling together a modular approach of criminal justice, the education system, businesses in the community, the healthcare industry, the technology industry, the faith-based organizations and churches, et cetera. what the founders went all of these organizations chase after demand at the same time is when they saw this reduction. we have taken, we have hired the best consultants. they'd been so gracious to provide to us the details of what they've done and we put this together and we call trafficking freezone program which is like is that it's a services engagement for local communities to implement to snuff out demand within their community. we are very excited to pascoe county florida just two fridays ago declared themselves to be the very first trafficking freezone community or county within the united states. our goal with this is once again it's replication could we got to

identify what is been successful and rapidly begin to replicate that. that's a trafficking freezone program for i will just say i think societally we need a shift. we've got to grapple with this and understand that as a society it is not okay that we have an entire young generation of kids growing up with ready access to hard-core deviant violent pornography. we truly know, and i want experts say it best when she said that pornography is one of the greatest unchecked social experiment that our world has ever seen. i'll tell you this train is coming. i think the trinity. the perfect storm is here where we have young generation of kids that have access to hard-core violent pornography on their cell phones at age nine, ten, 11, growing up addicted to pornography. that's shaping their sexual template and at some point been there moving from visualization to actualization. we can get very real one where

this insatiable desire for sex with children is coming from. so again hyper sexualization come pornography is within our society pictures to prove a point i will say five minutes before i i came up i went on amazon and i purchased a book, i won't say the name of the book but a purchase a book on how to become a pimp. this book is a tremendous learning tool for someone who wants to learn how to violently control women in the sex trade, in the sex industry. this book is going to show up at my home on sunday so it's prime delivery and will be at my house in two days. so seriously as a society it's time to get serious about the way we are approaching the topic of sex with our children, the topic of pornography and the overall hyper sexualization of our society. >> great, thank you. the first question i have is you all offer incredible services, amazing programs and support but how do you make survivors aware

of the services you offer? you offer medical service, mental health services. what kind of outreach do you do? what channels are what have you learned? than anybody else can jump in as well. >> of the referrals we get to our hospital and our child protection center we do services are from victim service providers as well as law enforcement child protective services. so we get to child victims are coming forward and say i need help editing one of the reasons for that is it was mentioned earlier today was that very few have realize they're being exploited so you don't see themselves as needing or wanting outreach and hell. it becomes very difficult. what we have to do is shift the focus so that we are not waiting for this children to come to us. instead were sick synced ok the coming, they are just a self identify. they are coming to her sexually transmitted clinic. with the better at figure who they are.

who is at risk among these 20 kids that will be seen today, this morning. who is at risk and how can we talk to them in a way that conveys the message to them that if they need our help we're here to provide it. we can't force anything but we can make it very clear that we want to help if we can. >> so we work with young women, as andrea and i spoke about earlier and they come into our program voluntarily get we do a lot of ways of connecting with community partners in law enforcement, and they know the work that we do. we've written a couple of books that have been published and that has led to be known across the nation. so would you get referrals for people at a state. but as far as our younger girls i didn't talk about that. we work with the girls who have been trafficked, ages 12-17. those come to us from the department of family and children services. we have great relationships with the fbi and we also work with juvenile justice. they come in.

we assume temporary custody while there with us. there with us about a year. during that timeframe we are working alongside these government partners to create a plan of care. every girl when you walk in our door she gets to sit with anyone that cares about her, and she decides what her goals are. we work with that by providing individualized therapy, group therapy, family therapy because she's got to go back home somewhere and swiftest are working on that the daish walks in our door. we are a residential treatment facility school, so we get the opportunity to do a hybrid academic curriculum so that they can be on the own individualized pathway for school. unfortunately most of them come in at least a year behind but they are very, very smart. andrea is an example of that. corey who's in the audience is an example of that. these are smart, very

resourceful girls and women that we have a great opportunity to serve. if they are given access to services, they do great. and so i just want, the thing i wanted to be sure that you knew is that not only are we working with women also girls and that our partnerships with government and law enforcement is very strong in both of our programs. and that's what we get a lot of our referrals. >> i'll just mention on the topic of the boys home that we have, dick indication of the kids comes through the department of children and families within the state of florida. florida has got a pretty advanced system. they have human trafficking survey that they put the kids within the foster care agencies through to identify if there are traffic indicators that they have potentially been trafficked or if so, then their flag and a defined as potential for needing

services like one of the safe homes. that's the main mechanism of how the kids are identified. the boys that are identified are coming into our home. i will say that we are finding and i think it's going to be very interesting to see over time because we are seeing, i think we heard for years about the differences between boys and girls that are traffic and the fact the boys do not identify by and large as a victim. we not invite as a human trafficking victim we are finding that to be extraordinarily true and so the extraordinary cases of trying to get a young boy to identify that they been either traffic or sexually abused and that they are in need of this kind of trauma care has been extremely difficult. we are really recognizing even this home is an open for about seven months now we are on a long-term plan of a pilot with the state the state of florida to begin to understand how can we better identify these boys? had we find in question when i said boys and talk about transgender females as well.

how do we find these kids need within the system or on the streets? secondarily, the other difficult without is that because in the state of florida it does have a safe harbor law a wonderful thing. one of the things are fine is what i call an unintended consequence of safe harbor is that the children begin to understand that they are a victim and that they cannot be prosecuted and they therefore have certain rights. so, for example, some of the boys that were identified as human trafficking victims, survivors, who come into her say, decline the ability to come in because they did not want to enter that kind of restricted seafoam safe omen barbiturate with several cases of young boys under the age of 17 in florida where we know their human trafficking survivor, and yet because of the way the loss of an setup they have the ability to decline the kind of care. i think this would be a long-term either, a long-term process to better understand how

to identify these kids and how do we make sure we are giving them the trauma-based care that they are in need of. >> that jumps into my next question which even if you can get survivors to begin your services, how do you keep them consistent? mary frances berry mentioned some of your girls you get temporary custody so that probably helps. could you speak to the challenge of keeping both women and girls even boys consistent with services? >> one of the big challenge is someone comes in and our girls don't want to be there. they are there because the state says they have to be there. many times they are not happy, and so i will say to you that the most important thing we can do is care for them and love them answer of them no matter how they respond. that's forgiven and the culture they came from. we have to build a trust relationship with them. in much better way than the way

the trafficker did. many times they will come in and they might think they're in the greatest place ever but then they changed their mind. it's important that the consistency we believe in a strength-based approach in everything we do with our girls and with our women, which means we we're going to be looking for how we can strengthen who they are so we don't look at the way they present a look at their strength. we are calling out and say hey, i see that you can express how you feel. that means you know how to advocate for yourself and didn't know what to do with that. that makes the more curious and that makes them want to state it with the younger girls i think school as the first thing that really makes them want to stay because my goodness school is working. i might be able to get my diploma. they never thought they could do that. that's important. another aspect of the way that our girls and women feel like they can stay in the program is

because we also work with a lot of volunteers. a lot of people bringing great care for them tells them that they are worth it. it may be the first and never had a birthday party. they have a birthday party with us but they solve it a lot. as you celebrate them it helps them to believe maybe this is hard but it's better than where i've been picked i think those are very key factors on how they stay. >> i think with be very realistic about sexual exploitation, , labor exploitatn in our expertise with many children who do not see themselves as being exploited rickets often a case of inquiry traffic and re-trafficked every traffic and we'll see the same joke every three or four months. as there picked up again. we picked him up again. we have to have this approach i think this is we will meet the show, these adult with it are.

if they're not ready to exit we cannot force them to exit. we have to be there to offer them services and open have thm alternatives but we have to accept that we can't rescue them initially and make allies perfect right after that. i think we have to be aware of all the complexities of labor trafficking is willed it were talking a lot about sex trafficking but labor trafficking is just as big or bigger an issue and there are a lot of complex reasons why people may not be ready to leave their labor trafficking situation. they may feel very bad that they are not able to send money home to the family, that they still owe this $20,000 debt. what is it, going to see if they went home? they've all these reasons why they feel they have to stay because of a complex thing, hard to gauge people and have been two things way we want them to do them. >> i wanted to piggyback off what you said, dr. greenbaum, meet them where they are. extremely important.

i think as people that want to help sometimes we think we know what's best and we try to put participants, survivors, victims, whatever term you want to use, into a box of our program and surely you would want to take advantage of this because look at this beautiful home, and look at these people that love you. my suggestion is, like dr. greenbaum said, meet them where they are and ask them what you think is best for them, ask them what they need to be successful, ask them, maybe what has worked in the past. the women have up until the time to enter our program, they are alive. they survived. they are supersmart, , super creative. they had resources that they may not even realize they have, and so pointing those things out, not giving up when they don't

modify their behavior in the way that we think they should. i've had a participant yell at me and say i wish you would just stop loving me pick because they are not used to the kind of love that is not conditional and not something that they had have tt back or payback or return the favor, things like that. so definitely meet them where they are. they are the experts in their care. service providers have a lot of maybe experience, maybe education, but the survivor is the number one expert in her recovery, in her care. >> we talked a little bit before the panel just about protocols and i know there's been discussion how do you develop protocol for different populations different context. can you talk about how you guys go about developing your

protocols? >> i feel like i'm a a broken record a little bit. >> i think the number one thing about developing protocol is being willing to evaluate those and change them based on the population. i've worked at the residential program now, gosh, seven years. our participants have changed dramatically over the years. more people are talking about the issue. the word is getting out. the girls are different than the women are different than they were when i started. so being willing to reevaluate some of that stuff, what's working, do more of it. what's not working, he willing to change it. i was talking a couple of people earlier and this is so exciting to me because historically, law enforcement, judges, parole officers, probation officers haven't worked well with residential programs. just over the past few years there protocols are changing

where they are starting to really ask us what they need to do to make this young lady be successful. monday i had a federal judge fly in from minnesota to have a status hearing with a young lady, instead ask her to come to minnesota and go to the court. so i just want to get one more shot out to minnesota, and all of the work they're doing, they're getting creative about how to serve the survivors. a number one thing about protocols is being willing to reevaluate them, maybe change them. maybe been a little bit, not be so strict and this is our protocol and we have to stick to it. there may be something that doesn't fit with that protocol, being willing to get creative and think of a different way. >> one of the biggest things to get multidisciplinary team

together and other protocol is to be very flexible and have cross training. we need to understand whether people are doing. i'm a physician. what do i understand about law enforcement? it took us three or four years to get to get a pic multidisciplinary team to discuss child sex trafficking cases of the month sweet of you mustn't talk about cases. we have people from law enforcement and the das office et cetera, et cetera. here i am this inpatient, i'm very impatient person. when we got to one of these cases and it was clearly a child sex trafficking case and they said law enforcement is not producing with the case. i get very hot and it call and say why not? how come he's not arrested and put away for life? how come? and the fbi person turns to me and takes a deep breath and says well, doctor, maybe you need to listen to what we talk we don't have the evidence. so he proceeded to tell me for 20 20 minutes about what he does. it was really inviting and i thought okay, now i get it. now i get it. it really is an interaction with

people you come to learn what the challenges are from each other. we, i sit out the medical lens, but law enforcement sees a completely different. to me it is this cross training and being able to learn from each other. and being willing to be very flexible. >> i was just built on that when you talk about learning from each other, and so obviously groups can get together cost the country and try to learn among themselves of what they've done but again i will go back to the point of learning from one another. across the country. the ability to replicate protocol set up a successful already come identifying those, replicate those that wellspring living and mary frances, you're clearly one of the leaders in this entire country when it comes to residential facilities for sex trafficking victims and survivors, and what i've seen you do for years is open up your doors and to help train others. i know several campuses, several safeguards across the country

and campuses in either open or preprint open already taste upon the training that you provided them. again that is key for us is to recognize that other people are willing to open their doors, open their books and show what they've learned over time. that's how we're going to expedite my good for us even with our boys home what we could find is another boy some summer in the country to replicate. what we did do is we knew we want a small residential facility. what we did identify is a very successful small residential facility for girls in florida, and works with that organization we define a refuge in order to take what they have for girls and really near that over for boys and now begin to build on that and learn from that. we will begin working with the university of south florida to do outcomes and studies on the skids over time to then again begin to share that information around the country. we are looking forward to publish what we are running from this boys home to show with

others because we know several other boys homes across the country that are beginning to look at the process of opening. here again i just i continued repetition of the topic of replicating promising practices. >> i was going ask you about replication which looked at when you certified teachers become a great job speaking to that. i'm going to going to another issue i know is aboard all of you which is resources. once you find something what replicate, once you find something that's working, how do you find resources? what are the challenges and what lessons have learned and what has worked for you? >> i'll start with that. specifically to the voice seko we have opened, what we started with is again we took that model from the girls are broken and mirrored it over into a boy some program. what that provided as was probably initiating of two years of time to try to develop a program like that. we expedite that significantly. what he did was give us tremendous credibility to go before donors and say here's the

program, it's been successful, will be opening this. we were able to raise a significant amount of money very shortly in a short amount of time for the purchase of land, for the blink of the home, et cetera. then the state came in and that was all private funding for the state of florida then stepped up and provide us with operating funds. they gave us funding for basically the start of operations of of the seko. so there seafoam licensing in the state of florida for seasick victims and so this entire process of that if we got to te entire staff hired, trained before the licensing process even begins. there's a tremendous amount of money that's necessary to start a program like this and so the state authority was able to help us with that. ongoing funding, the majority of the funding for the skids is coming from a per diem rate from the state per kit per night coming at the child welfare system. >> the resources i look to in healthcare community is an

organization called heal trafficking which is an international organization of professionals who are interested in looking at human trafficking through a public health lens. they have put together, for example, a toolkit on how to create a multidisciplinary team in your community including healthcare providers. if you have healthcare providers in your community hospitals, clinics are interested in learning more i would suggest referring into that very good organization, heal trafficking. thank you. >> when we started there were no resources so we kind of learn the hard way that you have to develop relationships of people in your community. we actually opened a retail store which is a resale store to help us with fun at our operating expenses because when we started we started with just women. people were not understanding that they were victims. they just didn't understand that so they they were going to oper wallets. i did a lot of one-on-one with

people and began to meet some people that great foundations that helped us. today we also have funding that comes through all bc as well as some local state funds that sustain us. i think one of the things that as somebody who sees like there's so much more to do, we would love to find a resource that could help us move to the next level because i do believe it we can do this, jeff is it over and over again if we can replicate some best practices we could even resource some of the people that want to start up programs so that we would be 2010 at best practices. it's wonderful that people can give to wellspring. one of the things we try to do is go out and do fundraisers with our partners like brooke and other people bridging freedom, so that these people in different communities say that they are willing to work with

each other so that the bigger picture and happen to i feel like it we can create a way that we could move the movement forward with more funding, because as john, richard cotton was telling me at lunch, there's more money made through this, what do able to confiscate, $25 million and what was spent last year on human trafficking. from the government. we really do need to step up the funding and i appreciate djs effort to make that happen. >> one of the programs that we talked about before the panel was your program that helps women gets into corporate jobs. it's interesting, even as he guess we try to mentorships,, apprentice programs with traditionally underserved groups. groups. there are channels but i know you have corey in the august there before we up to audience questions, did you want to give corey an opportunity -- i see here -- to talk about the

program? >> hello. do you want me to stand up? okay. my name is corey -- can you guys hear me? okay. coming into the program as the survivor i wasn't sure what to expect, but i was able to learn a lot to the professional development classes with the business communication nonverbal communication, those classes really helped me to give me a sense of who i was, sense of self worth, a sense of confidence in myself. like they said it gives you that confidence that you believe that someone believes in you. so it helps you to believe in yourself. go into the academy was really the segue for me to where i am now in life. i am now studying prelaw and political science. i would like to become a family law attorney and help give back to the survivors like myself, just to have that bit of hope

because wellspring gave me that help, the academy did. so that's all i have to say. >> great, thank you. [applause] >> we want to open this up to any questions for our panel from the audience. does anyone have a question? someone must have a question about something, maybe. >> could you talk a little bit about what happens -- i mean, we know these organizations exist but the investigators come in, break up the trafficking ring and the victims are diverted into services, i assume it. how does that process work? does doj have providers that sort of are there waiting to take these folks in? how long do they stay there? what happens to them after the case is resolved?

are they transferred, you know, to other agencies? just curious about how that all works. >> did a little case study. we have great relationships with the fbi. there was a young girl several months ago that was recovered in a a sting, fbi agent goes in and, of course, it is law enforcement just as they describe a little bit ago but there is a victim liaison. so i manned is the victim liaison and so she starts speaking to the young woman. the young girl, she's only 14. and so of course she was not happy and was not saying nice things to amanda bud amanda said i want to take your place, you have your own bedroom and bathroom. picky will be safe. when you get ready to talk to me, let me know. so weeks go by, and the therapist calls amand amanda as okay, so when sosa needs to tell you something.

amanda calms and meets with the girl and we find out that she was actually traffic in another state, and the attorney, the trafficker was up for prosecution and the attorney for the trafficker decided that she needed to go move to atlanta and connected with someone in atlanta. that's where she was rescued. so when she was able to get that information to the fbi company fbi was able to prosecute not only the trafficker who trafficked her in atlanta it also the one i was trying to avoid prosecution and the attorney. that's how we work with law enforcement. we work with all the partners, in we're going to be working with them because after they leave us they get a mentor and we stay in contact with them, but they will continue that case. we are working with how do they reenter back into this safe custody of where they need to be?

it's a process of working with all the partners and again we are focused on what is best for that girl. every case will look different because we are focused on the survivor and letting her lead that process. >> and as far as with the women, as scores of the women are concerned, or adults, normally how it works, i have good relationships with a lot of fbi advocates, the human trafficking hotline has my number. so knowing about the services that we offer the victim advocate most of the time will call and say, hey, i met this young lady, do you guys have any open beds? i want to present your program to her. for adults, i can't get a referral on the victim advocate if we can't force women to come to our program. so the victim advocate doesn't work as far as presenting a program, presenting the resources, presenting the

opportunities come presenting the apprenticeship, is usually one of the things they perk up and wow, that sounds good. then the have the young lady actually call me. we have a screening progress for her to come into the home. but it's still all voluntary. even court mandated cases, they can leave anytime they want to. so that's where the other half of the buy-in and our amazing staff and just really meeting her where she is and giving her what she needs comes in. >> also there's a tremendous amount of variation in the sense that not everybody goes throughh a residential treatment center. many children are sent home. for example, or they're in foster care come at a group home, the runaway moment get involved in trafficking and put back in the group home. in all of these situations, it's a very great, even when they're in a residential treatment for kids to run. so they may have services put in place but they are not, they are just not ready to see themselves

exploited and except the services so they run and québec. it's a cyclical thing. that's really important to keep in mind. it's not a one-shot deal. >> i'm with the national center for missing and exploited children. i have sort of a a three-part question but a promise they are all related. so first, at wellspring to talk about the fact that for children taken referral some fbi, juvenile justice. i i knew it in some states flora in particular if you have contracts with state agencies, you're often not allowed to accept referrals with children who are referred from other agency pics of the child welfare referral you can all be serving children from child welfare. i'm assume that's just not the case in georgia. kind of on that same line, with the two states if i'm memory correctly georgia says in a child of commercial sexual expectation can bicester by

child welfare. for that might have mandates what has to be a parent or guardian. do you think that child welfare in mandate to take on these cases and be the referral agency is helpful or do you think other options would be better? and finally on that note, do you think with these programs and as they are referred a lot of times with the state agency referrals, it's a mandated service, like you said. how are you accounting for kids to do want to be there that are still trauma body to the trafficker may want to recruit others in the program? >> so we do get our referrals mostly from the department of children and family services if we do sometimes have parents the select custody and they choose to come through. their child comes in and, of course, we get the coverage to cover the cost of that without a per diem. but we've had great success working with partners. we really have.

they have been the most dedicated people. they, and they come to the meetings monthly. they are therefore their special celebrations. they are always there for the graduations. we enjoy that partnership. i don't know that there's a better way but it's worked for us. and the second part of your question is all about -- i've lost the question. what? [inaudible] >> sorry, i know it was a long question. how do you prepare and present for potential recruitment of you who are still trauma body to the traffickers? >> right, right. as they come in one of the things we have to know is they probably are not pretty. they may not be ready because they are being mandated to us. and so again if of the opportunity for us to just meet them where they are, some say

what you want to say, don't tell them anything about the trafficker. like we can't tell them that's wrong for them to see it for themselves. so exposing them to who they are and maybe helping them to understand that they've been exploited. also see that with women. they don't see that they've been exploited, at first, but generally about 60-90 days in a consistent care and consistent therapy they begin to see that and move away from that trauma bond. but it is very, very hard to break. there is no doubt about that. it is very hard to break. >> one thing i'll say about you mention florida, and so like i have said we do have a very specific license for a safe woman state of florida for kids. there is the ability, and that then searched his third and child welfare system. the other kids were talk about, we call the community kids, not in the child buffer system but we do have the ability to serve

them in the same facility. we just need to expand our license levit. there's a second a license we can apply for which doesn't allow us to bring it is given to kids. a really good thing i've seen happen in florida last server used as the department of children and family has recognized the number of community kids that are out there that need help that are not in the child welfare system and so as a result of that they have now began to open up funding streams from the department of children and families to help these kind of community kids to get the residential care that they need. i think it's very progressive and very much need for these committee kids that are really desperately need this help. >> another question? >> thank you. i'm a survivor of human trafficking. i the question but i just wanted to say i have to honor a a doctorate at a just finished my phd. it's taken forever.

i want to encourage you to go all the way. it's such an articulate young woman as i'm excited about your future. you couldn't be in better hands with wellspring living there also i wanted to thank kevin malone who has funded more to life, men of honor for the past several years. as an actress when i was rescued from human trafficking, the whole hashtag me too thing left hollywood because as a survivor i saw that as geoff said men are the biggest part of the issues that i won't name the directors or producers now, but the first audition they thought, she's a great actress, i played a rape victims i imagine it was not that difficult. but it is about demand and more to life we have about 65 men that are successfully gone through that program commissioned by the attorney general of florida. i wanted to ask the panel what do you think we need to do nationwide and in our states to

effectively and easily mitigate the issues with men and with fathers and young men in the prevention of human trafficking so that we can go after the demand even before it happens? because that is an entire of the conversation that many men are not ready to have. >> well, i will say first of all, look, , you're one of my heroes. i mention meeting survivors has really what led me to commit my life and my wife's life to this cause and brooke is one of those, so hats off to you. .. first of all, recognizing these kind of schools are

necessary across the country. there are short-term and long-term, et cetera. i think all of them have varying levels of success and have showed significant levels of success. for every community out there, first of all, to mandate this kind of program is necessary, court appointed for anyone who has been arrested for solicitation, i think that is key. they also talked about what about before that. i have three young boys. my boys are 13, ten, and seven. my boys are also a major reason why my wife and i have stepped in. as we learn what's going on across the country, i would come home from trips around the nation learning about what's happening to our kids and specifically boys and i come home to my family and there's my boys from looking at this and it's this dichotomy, this insane reality of here is my kid and someone that same age, i just learned what happens to that young boy. when we first opened, when we

first started the boys home program, we had just created it. within two weeks we got our first phone call from the state of california and an official who didn't know we were open but had heard about the program and they had a 9-year-old toy in tampa bay who had been involved in sex trafficking. by the time my boy, my oldest boy was ten years old and so it's just this shocking reality of what is happening out there to these young kids. and so, i looked at my young boys and i want to raise them not to become a buyer of sex. how do i do that? and instill values in them and with those kids on how to treat young women. the problem that we have, although right back to pornography. everything that i can instill in my kids about how to treat women well, all they need to do is get a hold of pornography videos that are free, online, one click away

on a cell phone and they will see the ultimate derogation of our women in society. they are growing up with this conflict. to me it's a matter of educating these young boys on what it means to be a man. educating them on the value of women and how not to treat them and i think a lot of that can be done in our school system. in the education system, the kind of curriculum we can put in place in the high schools and in the middle schools and there's a lot of controversy because a lot of parents don't want their kids educated on this topic. whenever i hear that, all i will say is just go and spend the day with your child in high school. you will understand the topics they are being talked to about anyway. i've always said, when parents

come up and say understand you're talking about sex trafficking, i have my child with me, are you going to say anything, is it okay to hear what you have to say. my answer always is, first of all, we don't show anything graphic and we really don't say anything graphic, but we tell the truth. if your child is too young to understand what i'm saying it will go over there had. if your child is old enough to understand what i'm saying and they absolutely need to hear what we have to say. to me it really is about the education of young boys in our society on how to treat women. >> i think we need to think big and start young. i really believe we need to start very young, three and four -year-olds in school, telling them about healthy relationships. talk to them about how to respect each other. we have to reach boys to show them how to respect girls but we also have to reach girls to know that they should be respected and not treated as a sex abject.

you have to look at both girls and boys in changing their views of themselves. think about it. if we really concentrated on telling these five and six rogue kids about respecting their bodies and the bodies of other people, you are getting out much more than trafficking. you're doing child abuse prevention, domestic violence prevention, all sorts of it by the time they get to 15 they realize there's a lot of respect for my fellow man, my former students. we talk about healthy relationship. it's so important to get to them young. >> my question is opened up to final thoughts, but if you want to key, one question i've had is if you've had any sort of increase coming from the larger me too conversation going on and specifically how is that impacted your organization? >> when we first started, the very first thing we could

identify was what was happening to every young woman who walked through our door and no one was listening. unfortunately, the conversation is out there and some people think it's unfortunate, but i think it's good. and finally, we are finally seeing the truth that all of us have known for a long time. this is really happening. we can't ignore it anymore. i think that is the greatest thing about the "me too" movement, that it has put it right front and center so we can't ignore it, and i believe it also helps our young people, our young girls, our young women, boys and girls to know that it's not right and maybe more of them will also be speaking up. i think that's another benefit. >> that's what i was going to speak on, the strength in numbers where if you are a victim or a survivor and you feel like you're the only one that's had this happen and then you start seeing famous

people standing up and sing me too, this is happened to me too, it's an unfortunate circumstance and situation and it empowers women to also say wow, if she can be brave and speak up, maybe i can too. maybe i can talk to someone about this. sharing stories is hard and if just one person hears something that were saying, if it empowers one woman to speak up and share her story and get some help, i think the movement is progressive and positive. >> i think is very helpful and productive because it sort of addresses some stereotypes. it essentially says that anybody can be sexually exploited. it's not just a certain ethnic group or minority group or religious group.

anyone can be. that really, i think it's a powerful message that everyone needs to hear. i wish we had had the same sort of wake-up call as labor trafficking that people would start come forward and say i'm being exploited in labor and have other people jump in. we need the public focus not just on sex trafficking but labor trafficking as well. >> can i just say on the topic of awareness, it is quickly important we continue to push the envelope on raising awareness but i would imagine most everyone in this room is somewhat educated on the topic of sex trafficking in our country. once i became educated, i began to see it everywhere and hear about it everywhere and overtimtime found myself leaving that everyone else knew about it. interestingly, as we travel the country, maybe 50% of americans understand some concept of what it is but still, a very small number understand the reality of the magnitude of what's really happening within our own countr country, with our own

kids. even though there has been a big push in awareness, it needs to continue and hats off to the d.o.j. for the first ever summit on the topic and the big push because i truly believe we have got to get this more focused on, at a federal level, fighting trafficking inside her own nation, not just internationally but more to be done inside the united states, we also need focus on the state level, legislatively funding, et cetera and then at the community level as well pretty push on education and awareness has just got to continue even though many of us may feel like everybody's got to know about this at some point, but they still don't. >> thank you so much for our wonderful panel. as someone who covers the justice department it's also great to hear some positive, kind words about the fbi and the justice department. thank you so much for sharing all of your experiences and ways to power survivors.

>> thank you very much our wonderful panel. in q2 paula for moderating and thank you to andrea and corey for sharing your stories. it is both a reminder of why exactly it is many of us in this room do what we do but also very touching and inspirational to everyone. it is in gentlemen, we have about five minutes until our next panel so if you want to get up and stretch, that would be great. we will add a seat or two and swap out the nametags. we will have a full break after the next panel but i'll be back with you in just a minute or two. thank you.

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>> please file in and take your seats. we are ready to keep going. welcome back to the department of justice human trafficking summit. this is our third session of the day, this is entitled engaging with the business community. ladies and gentlemen, the justice department is, first and foremost, a law-enforcement agency. together with our law-enforcement partners, the fbi, homeland security, investigations and other agencies we were to uncover, investigate and prosecute crimes like human trafficking. it would be possible alone. it takes a lot more them on

placement agencies and officials. that's why this panel so important. the topic is engaging with the business community and our moderator is dave mccleary of rotary international. dave is a small business owner from roswell georgia with a heart for making a difference and other people's lives. since first encountering the issue in january 2012, his driving passion has been fighting human trafficking. as the president of the rotary club at that time, he to devoted himself to find how he and rotary could help define the goal of stopping human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery. they want to end human trafficking now, back then in 2012 with the goal to bring awareness and action to the issue to engaging the business committees, supporting effective law enforcement, and empowering survivors like two of those we just heard from. in 2013, dave was appointed worldwide moisture chair with the mission to engage the one point to members of that

million members of that club to take on the issues of ending human trafficking. dave serves on georgia statewide task force as chair of the workgroup devoted to deterring traffickers and buyers through business engagement. in 2015, he chaired a world summit with president carter on ending human trafficking. dave moderated a panel on human trafficking at the united nations for rotary day in 2015. he was appointed chair to 2019 super bowl anti- trafficking task force responsible for business and civic engagement. ladies and gentleman i'd turn it over to dave. >> thank you so much. we will show a short video and then get started. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> were working with what we have. i thought what do we have and

she said your body. i didn't know about sex trafficking until i was in the middle of it. >> after a while you just get used to it. everything that goes around just doesn't seem out of the ordinary to you. >> we really believe she was getting ready to be sold. breanna comes from a small town. she was an a student. she did everything you hoped your child would do. >> my dreams were to become a nurse while i was in high school and i had found a waitressing job. i loved school, i loved being with my friends. >> these traffickers, they pretend to be an older boyfriend, these young girls actually fall in love with these guys and believe that they love them back.

>> he was like 24, he played football at the university so he had gotten me some designer jeans and things. >> sort of like the movies, stuff like that, he bought me address and some jewelry because it didn't really have stuff like that. >> it's important for the or the trafficker to separate these girls from their family and their friends. >> he really gave me the courage to stand up to my mom. it was like just kind of keep it on the download. one day, he asked for something. even though she doesn't want to do it, she's so worried about losing him that she will and once he's had her do it once, he pretty much can control her from then on. >> he kept saying he needed money so i said i help you and i made a choice that night but, i have found out that they actually had chosen me.

>> i was a video on. it really tells you the story about how this happens in our communities. first of all want to thank the justice department, attorney general sessions, associate attorney general rachel for their amazing leadership on this because this is what it's going to take. it will take government, private sector, nonprofits all working together to solve this problem. i really appreciate their efforts and doing this and special thanks to rachel parker who kinda put this together. i really appreciate her efforts, good friend tim on the audience who actually introduced me. i appreciate that. what's interesting about this issue is we are all basically volunteers. we work for companies with amazing corporations and yet they chose their personal time to dedicate their lives to this issue. to give you quick story of how i got started, it ties into

what the last panel with mary frances, but in 2012 i was a volunteer at a conference in atlanta. the entire conference was on human trafficking. i thought one of even talking about, that does not happen in atlanta. that's a third world problem. why heard all the stories pretty met this girl through the freedom project who acts as the first girl in the program and i had her come speak to our rotary club and melissa told her story about being trafficked. someone knocked on her door, offered her a job, she was trafficked in downtown for several years. finally she got out and she was rescued, but after the meeting, one of our members gave melissa a big hug. i said how did you know melissa. he said he she used to babysit my kids when i -- when she was 12. use the influence you have. being a member of rotary, just

in georgia we have 204 rotary clubs. i thought what a great way to leverage an organization that's on the verge of eradicating polio and we think the next issue should be human trafficking because of modern-day slavery. to protect influence behind because we have business leaders, law-enforcement and all of our clubs and what i'm so excited about today is that we've got some of the most amazing ngos, not just in atlanta but all over the united states were doing incredible work and many of them are here. to be honest with you, they been fighting an uphill battle. human trafficking is 150 billion-dollar business annually, every year. they been doing it basically with sticks and other people have guns and so what we are doing now is we are leveling the playing field. these are the big dogs.

these are the companies that will take over and make a difference and we believe, i am so optimistic about what we can do with these companies coming on board because they not only bring their influence and leverage financial peace but their networks. you will hear different aspects about how to get involved because they are amazing companies but i'm so proud to be on this journey with them. these are only a few of the companies but we very had major discussions on how we can work together in the years to come. i really do feel optimistic about what we can do. i'll introduce a panel and they will give a short overview of what their comedy does and will follow up with some questions.

she has done amazing work. she is also chair of the freedom consul which is a coalition of amazing businesses. they were together. we have brents, director of the workplace who has done amazing work, not just with coca-cola on dealing with supply chain issues all of the world. antigua davis with facebook, facebook has some amazing things that they are doing. nicole clifton, vice president for public affairs, this is an amazing group of companies. rich terry is with delta airlines, director of line operations for delta and these companies, you will hear what amazing work they do that now that we are collaborating

together, we will just change the game regarding human trafficking. i will start with a brief overview of how you got involved and what anthem is doing. >> thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to such an important issue. i am honored and humbled to be here representing the business community, particularly the efforts of anthem, as well as the freedom consul. freedom consul is the coalition of businesses, global businesses that have come together to fight this issue. i chair the council, but the council falls under the umbrella of nonprofit organization of af rj. the organization focuses on fighting human trafficking. >> i am a technologist by

profession and i try to keep up with what's happening around the world in the technology sector and i read about artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things and how all these technology pieces have sort of taken us to a whole new level of advanced ability to predict human behavior. we also live in a world, at the same time where humans are being sold for sex and labor online and many times, much easier and faster than any other channels. we also live in a world where there is more than 40 million trafficked victims on this planet today, and like you said, they contribute to this 150 billion number. these are daunting facts, and to me, as a human being, that made me think about wanting to

do something about this issue. i do want to say, business is uniquely positioned to make an impact in the space but i say that because of many reasons. businesses have a large footprint. what i mean is i have hundreds, thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of employees. if you extend that to their broader ecosystem, now you are talking about millions of individuals that are connected to businesses and that is the massive outreach opportunity. all of us know that unfortunately this issue is not isolated to the community, local or national. it's a global issue. many of the businesses have footprints beyond the boundaries of our country. :

national level companies are mandated in many countries to get back a a portion of the revenue back into the community. what if we tap into that. we kept in to the effort and extend it. when a company fights this issue that is incredible. that's powerful but when companies come together to fight this issue now you're talking about exponential, exponentially powerful. maybe the last point i will make about why this issue matters to organizations or companies is that there's a part of branding involved in this as well. i am a leader, an executive. i hire individuals, and more so than ever before i see a trend in our potential employees where they not just look for an incredibly successful company to be a a part of, but they also k

for what the company does in the community, what are they doing to make an impact in this world. and so again one of the reason why i think this is are well-positioned and uniquely positioned to fight this issue. in a nutshell for all these reasons and many more we formed what is called the freedom counsel. anthem is one of the first adopters. a couple of our panel members, rotary club and randstad are also the early adopters of this council. and as of today it's been over a year since we started this council and we have more than 15 come anywhere from fortune 20-fortune 500 companies actively involved in making a difference in this world. >> that's great, thank you so much. brett, western you talk about coke. coke. and he does amazing work regarding supply chain.

for the audience, i'd like the auditor about that and your background with supply chain and what an amazing work you've done over the years with that. >> thank you very much for the opportunity also to be. if you can hear me, doesn't sound like an getting much volume out of this. can you hear me? the coca-cola company as you know is a very large, very old american company. we are present as a brand in over 207 countries in the world, although primarily we operator independent modeling so we don't do a lot of the work ourselves. we sell, we control the marketing. we managed the brand. but being such an old company and being present around the world for so long we've been very much involved in issues about human rights for many, many years. this comes within the fold of what is human rights for us. as as a company with every start human rights policy which we recently renewed and we have recently released our first ever human rights report which reflects upon the journey that

we've been on to address issues like forced labor, human trafficking through our supply chains and throughout business. as you can imagine our supply chain is huge. 207 bottlers, bottlers, each with their own domestic supply chain, ourselves with global supply chains and sourcing largely from agricultural producers and we think we sourced from about 5 million farms around the world. people talk about footprint, it's huge. what we've been trying to do in terms of the work that we been leading is to engage in a positive relationship with our suppliers through our auditing program that looks to address the existence of particularly labor trafficking in our supply chain. and, of course, in doing that you can't just come in with the stick. you've got to come in in an educated way. in many countries of the world people don't see this as a bad thing. in some parts of the world people believe you need to pay to get a job. if there's no payment, the job

isn't real so you must become indebted to get a job if we do a lot of work to try to educate communities around the fact that we do not want to see people paying to get a job whereby they become that bonded, whereby they lose control of their personal identification documents, whereby their missiles as to the nature of their employment and they find themselves stuck in countries where they can't get out. so for us this journey has been a very long journey. there is i believe bennet shipping point. this has been since the adoption by the u.n. human rights council of the u.n. guiding principles on business and human rights. it calls on all businesses regardless of size or location to respect universal human rights. since that time we had seen more companies understanding the need to engage in the space. since that time we had seen more

ngos being upfront about the expectations they have with corporations around this issue. and since that time we have seen more and more efforts to disclose what companies are doing in this space. so there's also been a little bit of a stick with the character trying to do the right thing within your supply chain. are we there yet? no. will he get there this year? no. this is an ongoing effort. because you have to get back and repeat and repeat and repeat to engage and engage and engage. so the other learning with that as result of our effort is no one company can do this alone. you've got to work with others. we are not involved in a number of initiatives through the likes of the consumer goods forum come with a social sustainability committees work, on no employee fees for jobs, for the leadership of the institute of human rights in business, on leading that call to deny people the charging for work and to some work we are doing with the

global business coalition against human trafficking which is again looking to support smes in the understanding what this challenge is and also to start to work in the survivor space so you square the circle so to speak so that people are not being re-trafficked either for labor or sexual exploitation. >> thank you very much. you see the importance of corporation in getting together globally and addressing this in the we did some really appreciate that. let's turn to be amazing for facebook is doing because what you have done is astounding. what i love about is you partner with other organizations to help them combat the issue of trafficking and actually really prevented. >> can you hear me okay? thank you for having us and including us in the conversation. i just want to sort of say, you talk about our work being

outstanding but it's really not necessary work that's outstanding particularly the partnerships that we have that make what we do powerful. the organizations that are dedicating all of their time to this effort that i think really deserve a round of applause. in terms of how we approach this issue i'm going to talk about how we approach safety generally and then how that plays out in the context of sex trafficking. first and foremost we have rules against trafficking on our platform. but as anybody who works in the space knows, rules are not enough to get really takes much, much more than that. we also utilize the tools on a platform and the product itself to try to combat sex trafficking. so is everything from the something of getting people the ability to report this country when they see on a platform to

much more sophisticated things like using photo matching technologies so that when people are uploading photos that they be of an exploded individual we are able to catch that something up load on a platform and reported to organizations like the national center for missing and exploited children. it also things that are in some ways smaller but are trying to attack from all the different areas. another way in which we utilize our platform for this is when people go to search content on a platform, if they put in certain terms or words that may indicate that they are looking to traffic or looking to with someone who traffics, we will pop up not only in education that's not a lot on a platform but, in fact, provide links to resources. if someone who is a victim is in any way searching on a platform that gives an indication, they will be immediately connected to an opportunity to reach out to

resources. that one is taking important because one of the anybody who works in the space knows is that the victims often times don't come forward. it takes a lot for them to come forward. trying to find any way in which to given that opportunity that make us safe for them to do that is important. the third way in which we work on these things is through programmatic work. one of the things we do every year is we have what we call a child safety hackathon that focuses specifically on the child victims of exploitation. and we bring together our industry partners. so the other major players in the tech world to work, brings about 80-100 engineers to our headquarters in menlo park to take on the technological challenges. so we know that law enforcement doesn't necessarily always have access to the technology that

they need, that organizations like the national center for missing and exploited children don't always have access to technology they need to keep up with these crimes. cities engineers come together for what we call hack which is about a 48 hour, i don't know, what normal people like to call a a brainstorm and actually building things. it's even better than a brainstorm. where they will build technological tools and advancement for these ngos network on thwarting sex trafficking are some really interesting technology has come out where utilizing facial recognition to match photos that people may have a summit is being exploited with images that are out on the internet to help try to locate those victims. i want to give one call to an organization that i believe is here today, an organization called foreign that works --

partnerships. we are experts at building human connection but we're not necessarily experts on all the things that happen on our platform. we wouldn't be able to do this without the expertise of these partners. so we need experts in law enforcement, experts in working with victims. we recently did i sex trafficking platform where experts talk about patterns we could share with her engineers so that they can build technology to spot the stuff on our platform. the last thing is working with the people are utilizing our platform to really understand where these abuses are coming

from and working with victims. >> thanks so much. rotary national commission, ashton kutcher was there, cofounder of thorn and senator bob corker, but the impact that ashton had on the audience was 38,000 rotarians from 160 countries. the impact of him telling the story not just of catching the criminals but also understand why they do what they do and really trying to help them out of that was amazing impact. i do applaud the work. they do amazing work as well. i know those two are your partners. i appreciate their work, so thank you for that. nicole, let's turn to ups. ups is an amazing organization, doing research getting ready for this in 2016 they delivered

4.9 billion packages. can you imagine? they are everywhere inevitable. so the training that you do with your employees but also like i say, they're everywhere and we had some amazing discussions just today but what were going to do in the super bowl, an atlanta and some other things will talk to ethical to the panel. so thanks for being here. thanks to your commitment. >> thanks for having us, david. and thank you to the department of justice for hosting this panel and bring together the business committee pickets honor to be here. ups is everywhere and we've got 434,000 employees around the world. we deliver in 220 countries and territories, and when the state attorney general office in georgia contacted us during the final four back in atlanta they asked if we could help find i "see something, say something" campaign. part of my work with the public affairs office and ups was to work with all of the ag's. i had no idea that human

trafficking was an issue. i certainly had no idea that atlanta had the distinction of being one of the, the number one city for sex trafficking. i'm from georgia. i live in d.c. now but it just seemed unfathomable to me that atlanta could have that statistic. we help underwrite the "see something, say something" campaign but then we started thinking about what more we could do. for other businesses better in the audience, money and funding issue truly important. sometimes if that's what you can land, , land that to the effort. but when you think about your most important resources, your human capital, oftentimes is even better than underwriting and initiative. so we started thinking about our drivers. because we've got more than 100,000 drivers that come into cities and all of the zip codes around the country. they are naturally trained to be alert. they are naturally trained to be

safe, and they feel a responsibility to the communities and the folks that they are around it so we started thinking about how can we use drivers in an effective way that's not mandatory come something that doesn't make them late to deliver your package but something that utilizes the human side of who they are everyday. and so using community development, using partnerships is actually an important so we found an organization that had been doing amazing work on truckers against trafficking. they are based in colorado and we started work with truckers against trafficking to customize the program for our drivers who would also thought it was very important to have a robust policy so that our employees around the world understood that we had zero-tolerance for human trafficking was it was using our vehicles or support it in any way through our company property. i think it's extremely important to stand up a policy and be very

clear about that so that there's not any questions and so the understand also where to call in terms of publicizing a phone number if they have concerns. the third thing we looked at was how to engage externally and that's using a number relationships that we have through nonprofit organizations, some of whom are here today, and looking at how it can really use our reach as a large company to do more than write the check also empower employees to really feel connected to this issue and make a difference. and so far it took about a year and a half to stand up the training to truckers against trafficking, and we have now extended the training and 96,000 drivers throughout the u.s. we are looking at institutionalizing this training as part of a new driver orientation. onboard approximate 9000 new driver for a year as a religion

making sure every driver the walks that the dual inputs on the browns uniform, whether they are freight driver or the familiar brown package drivers who comes your home everyday understand we mean business about this and have an opportunity to do something. i want to recognize my colleague angie who is in h.r. who is also an extremely valuable partner. we are looking how businesses are able to move these initiatives for pic you got a people who have heart and you care about it. and so folks like angie who understand how have understood for a long time why this is important helps us continue to move these programs for and to give them life so they can be institutionalized. angie, thanks for being here. i have to second the biggest angie was at a conference in 2015. she didn't let go purchase said with got to do something or she kept driving and driving and they said, she would leave them alone so they took it on so i appreciate your efforts. amazing. audrey, with randstad amazing

work you all do, not obvious as the company that the fact that you're able to empower these survivors. like wellspring mary frances talked about early. issue some amazing survives in the audience that are drivers now. appreciate your efforts. tell us all a bit about how the program works and how you really would like to scale it in the future. >> sure. first of all thank you so much pickets honor to be with these esteemed guests and colleagues, many who are randstad clients would really do appreciate this opportunity to partner. thanks again to the doj for hosting the summit. i hope this is the first of many summits to talk about this issue. at randstad with a program called higher hope, in partnership with wellspring living. mary frances bowley which is on the panel prayers to this one talked about the program of the bit. three phases to the program, six months long. the first phase is for store. dealing with total health of the

woman and this is really for young women that have been survivors of trafficking, exploitation and homelessness. the first phase, we parted with her community based partner to help with their additional needs they need. we recognize that they need counseling, housing, things that corporations can't provide. that helps to build up the things, the necessities. and into that we provide career readiness training for ten weeks in this first phase. at the end of that first phase they graduate. then have an opportunity if they are still with the program which many of them do, about 90% stick with it and we really excited about that track record, they graduate and interview for an opportunity for a paid apprenticeship. so it's a 12 week paid apprenticeship and we pay it and find it. very thankful to our ceo who has been a huge advocate for this. rebecca henderson provides the

work for the actual apprenticeship. in the apprenticeship they get life on the job kearny. they are offices, getting training everyday, doing actual real work, calling on her clients like ups and delta, anthem and coca-cola. they provide us with a supplemental part of our workforce and they are treated just like any part of our family. at the end of the 12 weeks we move on to the thrive phase where the interview, they do a presentation for our executives. they talk about what the lord through their journey to the higher health program and then have an opportunity to interview for longer-term positions with our client partners as well as within internal to randstad to whip out of the work we do for higher hope because at the end of the day in the work dr. martin luther king, lies most persistent urgent question is what we do for others? if we the business community the

ones that have power, the platform and the voice to be there for the voiceless, for those who do not have anyone in the corner to support them, that to me is meaningful work. i'm really proud about what we are doing with randstad. in addition to that we have a global supplier code which we make sure anybody where doing business with adheres to. we have a clause in that which is you're going to adhere to all the international laws against child labor, all the international laws against human trafficking the matter what country you're doing business with us in. i'm really proud of the work we are doing there. >> thanks so much. just follow up on that, probably two years ago i was at a luncheon that mary frances posted and a sitting across from this girl, having a conversation just bubbly and happy and that she gets up and tells her story. i was blown away by chip into the program, early on in the program. so to see the impact of those

people, i tell the stores all the time, to the effect because it we save these girls, women we don't do something after that we don't give them a sustainable life and they go right back into it. so the work you will do is unbelievable. rich, out -- delta, amazing job on this in a matter-of-fact the ceo is hosting a breakfast at the end of march in conjunction with atlanta rotary club to have other ceos challenge them and take this issue on. one thing about this issue with all these companies, polaris hosted in atlanta, moderated panel, told all a bit about wht delta was doing, one of your employees was there, came up front, races and a set i work for delta. let me tell you what else we are doing. this is all these companies see the energy and excitement. i think the younger generation

doesn't just want to go to work nine to five. they want to change the world. that's what these issues do pick your employees will be happier. the world will be better and now all these companies are coming out, more companies who can belong. if you want to give us an overview of some of those things, maybe mention the little flyer that you are now putting in the seats of all the planes. >> david, again hanky for hosting this and department of justice again thank you for being willing to bring this group together to talk about this, such an important issue. my personal journey with this began with mary frances bowley, and a name has been mentioned a lot but about ages ago she sat down with me and two hours later as i was in tears, should give me a great idea of the nature of the problem, the scope of the problem, and more importantly the proximity of the problem. i didn't realize this was happening in my own backyard. fast-forward to about nine months ago and i was asked to be on the steering committee for at the human trafficking a delta

and i gladly jumped on the opportunity to do that. it was very, very refreshing light of the bat to realize that while this committee is being run by our senior vice president for in-flight services, the sponsor of an overall is our ceo. himself and his wife are heavily involved in this effort and they have a real passion for it. so it goes, it helps a lot to know that it's at the very top of the corporation that is on top of this issue that is pushing this issue and that is supporting this issue. that translates into our employees and i'm not surprised someone jumped up and said hey, i'm involved in it because we tried over the last couple of years to educate all 80,000 of our employees about the issue. every year we have a kickoff campaign usually in january. this year the snowstorm prevented us from doing that but in a couple of weeks we will have our kickoff campaign.

ashley judd is the keynote speaker that he didn't do we expect to have several hundred if not 1000 or so of our employees at that event to again highlight what we deal. from the education peace, 80,000 of our employees are trained in this pic it's a focus on our front line employees, our pilots, flight attendants, gate agents but every employee a delta needs to be aware of the issue and what we can do to combat it and what the signs we need to see to identify it and reported. so from a front-line employee point of view, our pilots are flight attendance and kate ages are receiving annual recurrent training about the issue to make sure they are aware of it. they look for signs both from a victim side and from the user side or a predators side. what are they saying. but why are we doing it? we are doing it because this is going on in a places all of us live, and just as important is going on on were ever delta fl. we want very much to be the leader in this fight. we want very much to set the bar

for other corporations and in the transportation industry to make sure that we are fighting this each and every day. when we look at the programs we have stored is put in place, the education of our employees, but also extends to our communities. we look for opportunities to inform our community people look for opportunities for our employees to in their communities in this effort. we even try to educate our customers. you are going to see the route the country especially in atlanta and a belief in a little while charlotte you'll see signs that are sponsored by delta and other agencies to highlight to the traveling public that hey, there's an issue. this is what you need to do. there are hotline numbers you can call. the our people you can report to to give your concerns of the things you see. we have instituted a voluntary programs where our customers can

volunteer their skymiles to the effort to allow for the free travel of people that need to get back and forth both victims and supporters of victims and delta itself is donating up to 3 million miles to match that effort. we are doing everything we can from an employee perspective, a community perspective, a partner perspective, or other airline partners, klm air france, sky team partners, aeromexico, educate them and bring them along at home for this effort is. again where we fly and where we live. finally we just want our victims to know the victims of this horrific practice, and i obvious and being very, very kind when i used just those words because anyone who is aware of how bad this is, it just grabs at your very humanity that people could be involved with these kind of traits. that's why we know we want the

victims to know if we see you, that we are with you and we are fighting for every day to try to end this absolutely horrific trafficking. thank you. >> thanks so much, rich. another example of how companies can really engage in this issue when rotary national had a convention in summer in atlanta we had more than a survivor exhibit which is exhibit of survivors that tells mr. fo. that's what this panel offers is hope to survivors. we -- i called allison and said would you like to display it was already down here? should not only display to come put in the main rotunda in atlanta airport. it was supposed be there a week. she kept it a month. the impact that a company can have is enormous and i appreciate what you all and willingness to do something new.

you call them and be glad to do it. so i really appreciate that. i'm going to turn to shally expand all of it on the freedom council and about the work that you are done with a rotary in minnesota for the super bowl and we will talk more what we going to do and take care of business in atlanta for sure. >> absolutely. maybe i'll start with a couple of facts about the freedom council. .. we meet weekly, we meet biweekly on focused efforts and each company goes with witch multiple

deliverables and they spend enormous amount of time, effort, in bricking solutions to the table -- bringing solutions to the table. in terms of the freedom council, we have two verticals in terms of -- within the umbrella of freedom council. one is about she united states, our efforts in the country, and i think it came up in the past discussion that here we have several ngos ask we don't haven't a shortage of ndos. many organizations fighting this cause. maybe where there is an opportunity is to bring collaboration, making sure that all ngos are working together, connecting the dots, bringing collaboration to this space. so, in that vertical technology plays a critical role and i'll talk about the examples where we have aligned technology to our efforts in this country. the second vertical is