Roles
This role has the primary responsibility for placement decisions and custody of the youth/child.
Who is the Children's Social Worker?
This Senate Bill established the CSEC Program and added WIC 300(b)(2) to the Welfare and Institutions Code.
What is SB 855?
This approach understands that we cannot force a person to change, but we can support youth in mitigating risk and providing psycho-education.
What is Harm Reduction?
"You are on the right track but on the wrong train" or "You are in the right place but with the wrong exploiter"
What is "Pop P's"
As of May 9, 2023, over 80% of DCFS youth with an open CSEC case have this unfortunate circumstance in common.
What is a substantiated referral for abuse/neglect?
This role includes allyship, systems navigation, and lived experience to support reunification and/or the maintenance of a child/youth in a home.
Who is a parent advocate?
This Senate Bill requires the identification and documentation of youth at-risk of or victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE). It also requires CSE be reported as child abuse.
What is SB 794?
Through this strategic style of communication, we facilitate youth in examining their own situations, considering the pros and cons of changing. This is done in a non-threatening and supportive manner that encourages youth to think about possible options.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This term is used to describe being forced into prostitution or a person newly involved in exploitation.
What is "turn out"?
In Fiscal Year 2020-2021, approximately 15% of children/youth in this age range had an investigation for exploitation.
What is ages 9-13?
This person's role is to process funding for tuition, books, supplies, transportation, exam fees, prom, and graduation expenses.
Who is the ILP Coordinator?
Provided first federal language that defined human trafficking.
What is the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA)?
This approach relies on five guiding principles including: safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness, and empowerment.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
This term suggests strong loyalty to someone or something.
What is "10 toes down"?
A Casey Family study found that these individuals have insights and expertise that can inform positive changes in practice and policy benefiting agencies, programs, and the people they serve.
Who are lived experience experts?
This person provides youth-centered services based on a relational model. This person also develops SMART goals with the youth. They provide support to stabilize the youth and engage in safety planning.
Who is an Advocate?
This bill mandates that teachers, social workers, and law enforcement officers receive training on how to identify and respond to human trafficking.
What is the HT Prevention Education and Training Act?
This approach involves providing education or information to youth and their families about their mental health, decisions, and/or response to trauma. This includes the normalization/validation of an individual’s or family’s experience and instilling a hope for change.
What is psychoeducation?
What is a Romeo/Finesse trafficker?
RPGP
What is "Real pimpin' going on"?
This role has the primary responsibility of taking the youth to medical appointments.
Who is the caregiver?
This Senate Bill passed in 2017 prohibits the arrest of minors for prostitution or loitering with intent to commit prostitution. It clarifies that exploited children are child abuse victims, not criminals.
What is SB 1322?
This framework helps us understand the ways in which people prepare for and enact change in their lives.
What is the Stages of Change Model?
This person is involved with exploitation without a trafficker.
What is "renegade"?
Term used to describe a victim who does not look up or speak to other people unless they are a buyer.
What is "in pocket"?