Protocols for Health & Medical Management in an Aftercare setting
I’ve prepared, with the support of Abolition International, a series of documents to help organizations deal with the health and medical issues involved in the after care and rehabilitation (residential or community-based) of trafficked people . These guidelines are designed for organizations working in less-developed countries where medical care may not be up to Western
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Teaching and Learning… pass it on
What would it be like to feel empowered to help another person where you previously felt helpless? What if this empowerment had to do with caring for someone with a medical emergency – even a routine or basic one? During one of my follow up evaluation visits for a health training pilot project, one of
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Urbana 12 Breakout Session Talks
Here are the links to the talks I gave at Urbana 12 last month, per your requests! Urbana 12 Health and Human Trafficking Urbana Orphans and Vulnerable Children Please note that I have removed most of the photographs due to child protection and copy-write issues.
Child Abuse and Neglect Workshops
This year is already turning out to be grand, but I need to catch you up on some important events that happened in December. I was invited by the Forensics department of Chiang Mai University Medical School to present a series of workshops on child abuse and neglect (CAN) to their residents. Residents from Emergency
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
To all my friends around colleagues near and far, may you have a blessed Christmas and a bright New Year. It has been a joy to journey with you this past year and I look forward to many more opportunities! Blessed to be a blessing, Katherine
Health and Human Trafficking: Online CME Curriculum
I’m pleased to announce the roll-out of the Christian Medical Dental Association’s online CME curriculum on trafficking in persons. This is the latest tool for health care professionals to get credit for learning about human trafficking. My colleagues Jeff, Gloria, Clydette and I have worked long and hard together on this project and it has
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Orphan Awarness Month part 2
I hope that my previous post on awareness of the world’s “orphans” this month was helpful to you in considering a different perspective on this topic. Following up on this, I want to provide some more practical steps you may take in directing attention to child protection. I appreciated the people who took the time
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Orphan Awareness Month
November is Orphan Awareness month. You will no doubt see many posts by friends about orphans, adoption, fostering, etc. There are many perspectives on this topic but I will present just one here – one related to the just care of these vulnerable children. First, a clarification: many “orphans” around the world aren’t technically orphans
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The Life
Although I’ve generally been hard on the media for the way that it addresses human trafficking, I’ve got good news today. A link to “The Life” came through an email and it looked compelling enough so I clicked on it. I expected to see which latest star has jumped on the sexy trafficking bandwagon but
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Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking
This weekend, 11-13 October, is the The 2012 Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This conference takes a multidisciplinary and academic approach to examining some good practices in the United States and around the world. Talks will presented on promising practices, methodology, knowledge-sharing, data gathering, and existing gaps in research. Because
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