Let us know what events you are planning to host during the 2018 Human Trafficking Prevention Month from January 11th to February 12th. To include them in the calendar of events, please submit event title, organizer, date & time, location, description, contact and associated flyer/image/links to SFCAHT Coordinator at antonialavine@sfcaht.org.
Please Note:
This calendar is offered as an awareness-raising service to the community. For additional details about specific events, please contact the hosting agency/individual named in the listing. Events hosted, sponsored or endorsed by the San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking include the acronym "SFCAHT".

San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking's 
Directory of Services 
2015 Release 

The Directory of Services is available as a web resource  at http://sfcaht.org/directory-of-services.html.

Contribute to the Directory by sending your agency’s information or by suggesting other agencies that should be included to info@sfcaht.org.  

SFCAHT Committee Recruitment

SFCAHT is recruiting members for the following committees:
Inter-Faith Committee
Reaches out to the San Francisco Bay Area interfaith community for collaborative action against human trafficking.
Education Committee
Develops and coordinates SFCAHT training activities utilizing the Collaborative's multi-agency resources. 
Policy Committee
Oversees policy initiatives of SFCAHT and legislative updates.

    To sign up for any of these committees, please fill out this form:

Must-See Video

At the SFCAHT's 2013 Human Trafficking Conference, the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women released an original video on the life of one San Francisco girl trafficked on streets throughout the Bay Area and Las Vegas.  Click here to watch it now.

For more information about using this video in counseling, education and outreach efforts, please visit Child Sex Trafficking: A San Francisco Survivor's Story. 

NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

Shelter Available to Men Survivors of Human Trafficking
Ruby's Place Men's Shelter

Ruby's Place currently has two spots available at their men's shelter for survivors of human trafficking. The shelter's staff members are bilingual - Spanish/English.
​To refer a client, please contact Ruby's Place men's shelter coordinator, Bernice Rosas Belmonte at: bernice@rubysplace.org
For information about all support services provided in association with the shelter click HERE

Congratulations!
California Superior Court Judge, Hon. Susan M. Breall, is the new Co-Chair of SFCAHT

BIO
​Congratulations to the Hon. Susan M. Breall, Judge of the Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, on being installed as Co-Chair of SFCAHT at the May 4th general meeting! We look forward to her leadership in this important role together with our other Co-Chair, Benita Hopkins, Director of Programs of Generations United, Inc.

40-hour Comprehensive Anti-Human Trafficking Advocate Training 
San Francisco SafeHouse

SafeHouse is once again offering its 40-hour comprehensive human trafficking advocate training in accordance with California Evidence Code 1038.2(b). This training does fulfill the training requirement for the Human Trafficking Caseworker Privilege; however participant must work for an organization that qualifies under 18294 of the California Welfare & Institutions Code to claim the privilege.
The training is conducted by SafeHouse staff along with guest facilitators from partner agencies in the city who support survivors. Training opportunities are offered to community members, partner agencies, and SafeHouse volunteers/interns. 
The training curriculum topics include but are not limited to:
  • History and Societal Attitudes Toward Human Trafficking
  • Peer Counseling Techniques
  • Civil and Criminal Law Related to Trafficking 
  • Resources (housing, public assistance, financial resources, etc.) for Trafficking Survivors
  • Privileged Communication
The Fall 2018 Cohort training dates are every Thursday (9am-5pm) from August 2nd until September 6th.  Training cost is $175.00 per person. For more information or to sign up, visit: http://www.sfsafehouse.org/training.html

2018 Teen Poster Contest
​ Winning Poster 

Click here to download 

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2018 Modern-Day Abolitionist Awards!

Modern-Day Abolitionist Award for leadership
​Nancy O'Malley
Alameda County District Attorney
Bio
Modern-Day Abolitionist Award for Human Trafficking Investigations
 Melissa Saurwein, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent
​Bio
Modern-Day Abolitionist Award for Survivor Support and Protection
 Nicole Beeson, Homeland Security Investigations Victim Assistance Specialist 
​Bio

MISSSEY Training Institute

MISSEY (Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, Serving Sexually Exploited Youth)
Date/Time: To be arranged at your site or event
Location: To be arranged at your site or event
Contact Person: Beth Quiriarte
beth@misssey.org
Contact Information: 510-251-2070  or training@misssey.org
Description: MISSSEY’s Training Institute offers CSEC 101/awareness trainings and discipline-specific, in-depth trainings, for professionals who work with at-risk youth. These trainings are offered to social service providers, law enforcement personnel, child advocacy professionals, educators, and health care providers, by a cadre of skilled trainers that include MISSSEY’s staff and select professionals with substantial experience working with victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE). Any organization--government, non-government, community-based, educational--can request a training from MISSSEY. Fees are charged on a sliding scale.

2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 
US Department of State

The 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report is available on the official website of the U.S. Department of State  in PDF and HTML formats. The PDF is available as a complete one-piece file and as individual sections for easier download. To view the PDF files, you will need to download, at no cost, the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
To request a hard copy of the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report, you can email TIPOutreach@state.gov and provide your mailing address. 
For further information and to download the report click  here.

As required by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), the TIP Report assesses government efforts around the world to combat modern slavery. This year’s Report assesses trafficking in 187 countries, including the United States, and emphasizes the need to hold traffickers accountable and prosecute them.

​HIGHLIGHTS

Collaborative Solutions to Combating Human Trafficking
2018 Annual Conference of
SFCAHT

September 25, 2018
California State Building, Milton Marks Conference Center 

Over 170 representatives of law enforcement, businesses, government agencies, survivor groups, service providers and volunteer organizations gathered for the annual full day conference of SFCAHT to explore good practices and policy solutions in anti-human trafficking collaboration and learn about effective partnerships and innovative programs aimed at eradicating modern-day slavery across the Bay Area. The participants in the conference shared experience and network with other professionals and volunteers fighting this heinous crime.
The conference program included:
Morning Plenary Sessions 
  • International Collaboration to Counter Human Trafficking
  • Priorities in Legal and Law Enforcement Collaboration
  • Local Community Collaborations
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
  • Criminal Justice Collaboration
  • Collaboration in Survivor Assistance and Protection
  • Collaboration on Advocacy and Prevention
  • Collaboration in Cases with International Elements
​Featured Speakers were: 
London Breed, Mayor of San Francisco
Hon. Teri L. Jackson, San Francisco Superior Court Presiding Judge 
Panagiotis Papadimitriou, United Nations Office for Drug and Crimes, Anti-Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Unit
Phil Ting, California Assembly Member, District 9
Alex Tse, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
Hon. Susan Breall, San Francisco Superior Court Judge
Sarai Smith-Mazariegos, Executive Director, S.H.A.D.E. Movement 
George Gascon, San Francisco District Attorney 
Anne Kirkpatrick, Oakland Police Chief
Toney Chaplin, San Francisco Assistant Police Chief
Dr. Emily Murase, Director, SF Department on the Status of Women
Sharmin Bock, Alameda County Assistant District Attorney in Charge of HEAT (Human Exploitation and Trafficking)
John Vanek, San Mateo County Human Trafficking Program Coordinator
Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director, Coalition on Homelessness
Dr. Gena Castro Rodriguez, Director of Victim Services, SF DA's Office
Russell Wilson, Anti-Trafficking Expert, Consultant & Researcher
Stephanie Richard, Policy & Legal Services Director, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
Betty Ann Hagenau, Co-Founder and Chief of Strategy Officer, Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition (BAATC) 
Sharan Dhanoa, Director of Strategic Development, South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking (SBCEHT)
Download the Conference Program HERE.

General Meeting
SFCAHT

August 10, 2018
San Francisco Superior Court

At this meeting, the participants learned about government and community based services and protections available to survivors of human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. The meeting featured:
  • Presentation of the San Francisco SafeHouse's services for survivors of human trafficking by Toni Eby, Outreach and Training Manager, San Francisco SafeHouse
  • Presentation of FBI's programs for survivors of human trafficking by Jennifer Wang, Victim Specialist, FBI - San Francisco Division and Heryca Serna, Victim Specialist, FBI - San Francisco Division/Oakland RA 
  • Follow-up Q&A on the Analysis of Services for Survivors of Sex Trafficking report, published by the Nathan Cummings Foundation funded REALife Project (Resilient, Empowered, Accomplished Life) of the National Council of Jewish Women San Francisco – presented by Sue Lockyer, Graduate Program, Department of Communication Studies, San Francisco State University

General Meeting
SFCAHT

June 6, 2018
​San Francisco Superior Court

The participants in the meeting discussed the planning of SFCAHT's upcoming events and learned about advanced policies and practices of engaging survivors of human trafficking in leadership. The training on Survivor Leadership Engagement and Empowerment was presented by Sarai Smith-Mazariegos, 2017 Modern-Day Abolitionist Award Winner, Founding Executive Director of S.H.A.D.E., a survivor-thriver led organization on the forefront of the Bay Area movement to end human trafficking.

United Against Human Trafficking
A Panel Discussion & Screening of the Spanish Version of Not My Life Documentary
Consulate General of Mexico, UNICEF-USA, Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking & SFCAHT

May 16, 2018
Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco

Community members, professionals and volunteers from across the Bay area gathered for a discussion about the local criminal justice and community response to the modern-day slavery happening in our own back yard. The program featured a keynote by Nancy O'Malley, Alameda County District Attorney and presentations by Patricia Eugenia Lavagnino-Spinola, Consul General of Guatemala; Silvestre Guillermo Reyes Castro, Deputy Consul General of Mexico; Luis Andres Garcia-Roman, Deputy Consul of Peru; Sgt. Antonio Flores, SF Police Department, Special Victims Unit; Tania L. Garcia R. – O’Higgins, Ruby’s Place, Inc.; and Neda Dai, UNICEF-USA.The discussion was followed by a screening of the Spanish version of the award winning documentary Not My Life.

General Meeting
SFCAHT 

May 4, 2018
​San Francisco Superior Court

On May 4th professionals, volunteers and community members gathered for a general meeting of SFCAHT to learn about new policies and initiatives designed to prevent human trafficking and improve victim identification and assistance. At this meeting, we installed the Hon. Susan M. Breall, Judge of the Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, as Co-Chair of SFCAHT.  The meeting program featured: presentation by William Murphy, Alameda County District Attorney's Office, H.E.A.T. Watch Labor Trafficking Task Force; Legislative and policy update by Tara Anderson, Director of Policy at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office; Updates on trends in working with vulnerable children in the juvenile system by Rebecca Marcus, Education Attorney, San Francisco Public Defender's Office, Juvenile Court Division; and Report by the SFCAHT Interfaith Committee on the 2018 business outreach volunteer campaign informing hotels about the public notice requirements of California State legislation (SB 1193 & 225 and AB 260) and providing them with posters to display on their premises.