Using Trauma-Informed and Victim-Centered Approaches To Provide Assistance to Survivors of Human Trafficking
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Batts, Rebecca Anne
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2020-05
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Dissertation
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en_US
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Dissertations, Academic--United States , Evaluation research (Social action programs) , Human trafficking victims--Services for , Human trafficking , Medical care , Psychic trauma--Treatment , Social work with human trafficking victims , Victims of crimes--Services for , Qualitative research
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This qualitative study leverages the experience and knowledge of 13 victim assistance service providers to better understand how these service providers operationalize the concepts of trauma-informed and victim-centered care, how United States Department of Justice-funded aftercare is being provided to survivors of human trafficking, and to identify gaps and barriers to the provision of such care. A wicked problem perspective was used as the conceptual framework. All of the individuals interviewed asserted that their programs were trauma-informed and most considered their programs to be victim-centered. However, the respondents explained their understanding of the concepts more as aspirational goals to be pursued instead of as practical approaches to aftercare. Identified gaps and barriers to aftercare for survivors were frequently similar to issues faced by other poor people, to include the lack of affordable housing and the need for long-term mental health care and treatment for severe substance abuse.
Keywords: aftercare; human trafficking; program evaluation; trafficking-in-persons; trauma-informed; victim-centered;
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This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.