Human Trafficking Protocol Toolkit for Healthcare Settings
The Protocol Toolkit helps healthcare settings create trafficking response protocols. Adaptable for diverse contexts, it fosters interdisciplinary, patient-centered care.
Human Trafficking Protocol Toolkit for Healthcare Settings
The Protocol Toolkit helps healthcare settings create trafficking response protocols. Adaptable for diverse contexts, it fosters interdisciplinary, patient-centered care.
What is the Protocol Toolkit?
Rooted in existing guidelines and expert recommendations, the Protocol Toolkit is a vital resource for healthcare institutions seeking to develop protocols to respond to human trafficking. This tool is designed for a variety of healthcare settings, including emergency departments, hospitals, clinics, private offices, or school-based health centers, and it can be adopted for particular contexts based on capacity. At its core, the Protocol Toolkit fosters an interdisciplinary response that respects patient autonomy.
What's Included?
- Part I: Introduction
- Part II: Steps for Protocol Development
- Part III: Protocol Components
- Part IV: Moving Forward
How to Use?
Healthcare institutions can leverage the Protocol Toolkit to establish safe procedures and supportive environments for addressing human trafficking. The goal of protocol implementation is not to encourage disclosure by trafficked individuals but to empower them with comprehensive healthcare services, educate about their options, and link to needed services.
What Next?
Need help developing human trafficking recognition and response protocols? HEAL offers customized technical assistance services to strengthen your organization's response.
Quotes/Testimonials
- “HEAL’s toolkit was instrumental in developing our Anti-Human Trafficking Program at BCM; we have successfully screened nearly 600 patients in the last few years, 70% of whom were [being] trafficked.” -- Dr. Mollie Gordon, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Program at Baylor College of Medicine
- Users have praised the Protocol Toolkit as an invaluable reference, highlighting its best practices, resource recommendations, training objectives, and trauma-informed implementation guidance. They find it comprehensive yet user-friendly and adaptable.
Copyright Information
This resource is a collaboration between HEAL Trafficking and Hope for Justice, and it is protected by copyright. You're welcome to share it within your organization. Just be sure to give proper credit to both HEAL and our partners! For any republishing, commercial use, or distribution beyond your organization, please contact us for permissions.
Questions or Feedback?
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