Next Steps
• Organize a STREETS of Hope Forum in Madison (July 2018) around themes of victim identification, case management, and trafficking in the context of migration.
• Develop networks in Madison and globally toward the creation of a university and private sector coalition, Juvenile Life Information Exchange Network (JULIEnet), using open-source technology
to improve practice in the anti-trafficking and child protection sectors.
• Implement comparative cross-border research agenda in Texas and Spain and southern borders of Mexico/U.S. and Morocco/Spain.
• Support the work of the first state anti-trafficking regional hub in Outagamie County, WI through applied research and advice on standard-setting for survivor services
Activities and Impacts
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Research, educational content, and training materials
• Worked with UW Continuing Education on modules for training professionals about sex trafficking and conducted training workshops at UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
• Produced a working paper on the outcomes and recommendations from the 2015 STREETS of Hope Forum, including recommendations for outcome measures for programming informed by survivor perspectives.
• Conducted online research on sexual exploitation in the classified advertising website, “Backpage” in Madison.
• Worked with the Spanish Anti-Trafficking Network and four Spanish universities, as well as civil society and university partners in Texas to create new courses and build capacity for a comparative cross-border research project supported by a European grant.
• Supported a qualitative, grounded-theory study with human trafficking survivors and educators on better practices on human trafficking education in U.S. schools.
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Research-to-practice bridge and networks of global opportunities
• Expanded international partnerships in Spain (Spanish Anti-Human Trafficking Network); Japan (Lighthouse); Singapore (National University of Singapore); Cambodia (Hagar International); Romania (Fundatia Usa Deschisa-Bucharest); and Moldova.
• Supported local partnerships including the Wisconsin Anti-Human Trafficking Consortium and organized or participated in over 10 art exhibits and projects related to human trafficking in Madison and other Wisconsin cities; developed arts-based education/prevention program on representations of women.
• Deepened Project Respect partnership through healing arts-based survivor workshops and support for a survivor programs coordinator.
• Engaged with the UNESCO global platform through the UW UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing, and a Culture of Peace.
• Represented STREETS at 14 academic and policy forums, including a plenary at the 2017 4W Summit.
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Education and mentoring for UW students
• Matched five student interns with local organizations and one with an organization in Spain; awarded funding to support Force for Freedom, a UW student-led organization; created a new undergraduate field course to educate UW students about the transnational challenges of human trafficking in Spain and the Mediterranean; and developed an independent study curriculum on trafficking challenges in SE Asia.
• Implemented three field courses in Spain; formalized curriculum on trafficking challenges in SE Asia; held multiple guest lectures in trafficking-related courses; continued work with five graduate and undergraduate assistants, providing networking, research, and professional development opportunities.
