Description: Learn about strategies for improving outreach to hard-to-reach populations that are vulnerable to labor trafficking. The session will address strategies for building long-term, collaborative relationships with community based organizations and nontraditional investigative partners.
Objectives:
As a result of this webinar, participants will be able to:
• Describe the relationship between labor trafficking and related criminal and civil violations such as workplace violations, labor exploitation, fraud in foreign labor recruitment, as well as the intersection with sexual and domestic violence.
• Identify creative strategies and partnerships for conducting outreach to vulnerable populations that may be isolated or in low-visibility areas.
• Consider tactics to proactively identify labor trafficking victims to initiate labor trafficking investigations.
• Understand the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration to ensure an efficient and victim-centered response to labor trafficking investigations and prosecutions; and
• Identify tips and tools to help build these strategic partnerships.
Presented by:
Esther Del Toro Oliver, Regional Coordinator Workplace Crimes, Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor
Colleen Owens, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute and John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Meredith Rapkin, Executive Director, Friends of Farmworkers
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