Let us know what events you are planning to host! To include your event in our calendar, 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."

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2023 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 
US Department of State

On June 15, 2023, the U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons released the 2023 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. 
The report examines and highlights how governments and a wide range of stakeholders have used partnerships to advance anti-trafficking priorities and goals. It also shares innovative approaches and specific examples of partnerships that have complemented and supported the success of prosecution, protection, and prevention efforts.

For further information and to download the 2023 TIP Report click HERE.
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Schedule a Training with WestCoast Children's Clinic ​

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​Commercial Sexual Exploitation-Identification Tool (CSE-IT) training

WestCoast Children’s Clinic is excited to offer free Commercial Sexual Exploitation-Identification Tool (CSE-IT) training to any organization serving Bay Area youth. Sponsored by the SF Bay Area SOL Collaborative, a limited number of training slots are available. WestCoast Children’s Clinic research shows:
1 in 10 vulnerable youth show clear signs of exploitation.
75% of youth experience exploitation for 2 or more years before providers intervene.
75% of youth do not disclose exploitation.
 
Start screening at your organization! We have three versions of the CSE-IT and offer specialized training for child welfare hotline, healthcare, and education settings. Training can be accessed monthly via our self-paced platform, or live on zoom on December 7th, January 23rd, and more!
 
Spread the word! Reach out for more information and to schedule your training at no cost to your organization. Complete the CSE-IT Inquiry Form or email us at screening@westcoastcc.org.

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Advanced CSEC Caregiver Training
WestCoast Children’s Clinic
Please reach out to csectraining@westcoastcc.org for specific dates!
Training takes place on Zoom
 
This 16-hour training series provides a comprehensive curriculum for caregivers to recognize and respond to youth that are commercially sexually exploited. You will also get the chance to connect with survivors with lived experience and other caregivers going through similar challenges. Any caregiver based in California is welcome to join. Caregivers include parents, foster parents, relatives, friends of the family, providers in a caregiver role, and more!

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CSEC 102: Advanced Curriculum
WestCoast Children’s Clinic
Please reach out to csectraining@westcoastcc.org for specific dates
Training takes place on Zoom  
 
In this 16-hour training, we will build on the skills and concepts learned in CSEC 101, including but not limited to: an exploration of common dynamics when serving and supporting commercially exploited youth and how these dynamics impact the work and the providers. Any provider based in California is welcome to join. Providers can be from any type of youth service organization (child welfare, probation, law enforcement, youth advocate, therapist, etc)

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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

To get the training and for further information visit: http://www.sfsafehouse.org/training.html

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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.

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NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

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The 24/7 San Francisco Bay Area Human Trafficking Hotline is up and running!

Call 📞 ​415-907-9911

Interpretation in over 240 spoken languages available 24/7

The San Francisco Human Trafficking Hotline (SFHTH) confidentially and safely connects survivors of human trafficking and their support networks with resources and protections. Through its services and collaboration with the local and national stakeholders, the hotline empowers survivors to regain control, navigate their options, and determine their next steps.
Please note: If you are in immediate danger,  call 911 for an immediate response.
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Outreach Campaign to promote the services of the 24/7 Hotline

In January 2023 we launched a marketing campaign to promote the services of the San Francisco Bay Area 24/7 Hotline for survivors and community. As part of this campaign, the MUNI has been displaying the hotline phone number and image on busses' exterior and interior. Help us promote the hotline among communities and professionals across the Bay Area! 

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 MODERN-DAY ABOLITIONIST AWARD! 

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Modern-Day Abolitionist
​Changing Lives Award

SARA RICHMOND
Officer
San Francisco Police Department, Mission Station
Bio

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Modern-Day Abolitionist Award for Outstanding
Collaboration

PAMELA ESTES
Coordinator
San Mateo County Human Trafficking Program
Bio

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Modern-Day Abolitionist Award
for Outstanding Legal Service to Human Trafficking Survivors

DEAN ITO TAYLOR
Executive Director
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach (APILO)
Bio

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Modern-Day Abolitionist Award
for Outstanding Policy and Enforcement

PATRICK VANIER
Deputy District Attorney
Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office
Bio

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Congratulations to the winners! 2024 SFCAHT Teen Poster, Writing and Music Contest

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The 2024 Contest for middle and high school students attending public, private, or home schools in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area concluded on March 9th. 

In each contest category we presented
​the following prizes: 
1st place: $500
2nd place: $250
3rd place: $100

2024 Contest Theme:
“Invisible but not Forgotten”

Click HERE to see the contest rules and details.
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​See the 2024 winning posters below:

To get your free printed posters in three languages, please email us at info@sfcaht.org or call
​(415) 346-4600

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SFCAHT Co-Chair 
the Hon. Judge Susan Breall receives Hannah G. Solomon Award 

At a ceremony on August 30, 2020, the National Council of Jewish Women San Francisco presented the Honorable Superior Court Judge Susan Breall with Hannah G. Solomon Award, the highest honor awarded by the Council, in recognition of her distinguished leadership and service.

​Congratulations to the Honorable Judge Breall for this well deserved recognition!

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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. 

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Schedule a Training with MISSSEY's Training Institute ​

Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, Serving Sexually Exploited Youth (MISSSEY)

​Our training and workshops provide a broad overview of trafficking that includes a discussion of youth pathways and risk factors, prevention and how to support trafficked youth. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of this complex issue.

After attending a training they will also be able to identify red flags, understand how to refer youth to support services and impact how their community addresses the sexual exploitation of youth.

Youth providers will receive guidance on how to engage youth in simple safety planning. Youth training and workshops are informed by the lived realities of the youth that we serve. All facilitators have developed, trauma- and healing-informed and strengths based approaches to engaging and supporting youth participants. 

Our trainings have reached more than 10,000 adults, youth, health, and mental health professionals, including staff of local and national public and nonprofit service agencies, the City of Oakland, and school districts in Oakland and West Contra Costa County.
The trainings cover: introduction to and defining of trafficking; pathways and intersections of risk factors; red flags and victim identification; survivor realities and experiences; societal realities, systemic issues, and demand; safety planning; stages of changeImpacts of complex trauma; best practices for intervention and response; advocacy and case management; strength-based youth leadership development; and cross-sector collaboration and coalition building.

Learn more about MISSSEY's trainings HERE.

Email training@misssey.org to discuss your training needs or to request a workshop or presentation.

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1st Fruits Arts Project
A Collective of Justice & Positive Youth Development

Use the arts as fruits of healing and empowerment with an inspiring and unique program offered to those most vulnerable. To enroll in the program, please contact Benita Hopkins at doublefnotes@gmail.com or 510-578-8588.

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San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking's 
Directory of Services 

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.  

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​HIGHLIGHTS

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2024 Teen Power Summit of SFCAHT
Honoring the Winners of the Teen Poster, Writing & Music Contest

March 9, 2024
San Francisco Main Public Library, Koret Auditorium

At the closing of the 15th Annual Awareness Campaign of SFCAHT, we gathered to honor the winners of the 2024 Teen Poster, Writing & Music Contest and learn about youth achievements in human trafficking prevention. Students from across the Bay Area performed and shared experiences in anti-trafficking advocacy. Attendees learned how to join the movement locally and help create awareness of human trafficking in their own schools and communities. 

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SFCAHT Press Conference & Reception 
Kickoff of the 2024 Anti-Human Trafficking Month and Awareness Campaign

January 5, 2024
​Milton Marks Conference Center, California State Building, 455 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco

​On January 5th, we held our featured annual event with top law enforcement and government officials, survivors, leading anti-trafficking advocates and members of the press. We kicked off Human Trafficking  Prevention Month and honored the 2024 Modern-Day Abolitionist Award winners! 
Our speakers included:

• Robert Tripp, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), San Francisco Field Office
• Patricia Lee, Assistant Chief Attorney, Defend Division, San Francisco Public Defender's Office
• Tatum King, Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), San Francisco
• Caroline Greig, Project Director,  Anti-Trafficking Initiatives, WestCoast Children's Clinic 
• Sgt/Insp. Antonio Flores, San Francisco Police Department - Special Victims Uni, Human Trafficking Task Force
• Jazmyn Brown, Chief Operating Officer, San Francisco SafeHouse
• Aimée Comrie, Project Coordinator for GLO.ACT Asia and the Middle East, United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime
• Yves-Langston Barthaud, San Francisco Women's Housing Coalition, Chief Policy and Advocacy Officer - SF SafeHouse
• The Honorable Susan Breal, California Superior Court Judge & SFCAHT Co-Chair
• Benita Hopkins, Northern & Central CA Liaison for DVULI & SFCAHT Co-Chair

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General Meeting
SFCAHT

December 1, 2023
​Via Zoom

The meeting program will included:

• Overview of the San Mateo Human Trafficking Program - presented by Pamela Estes, Program Coordinator 
  

• Overview of the programs of MISSSEY ( Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth) - presented by Jennifer Lyle, PhD, MSW, MISSSEY's Executive Director.  ​
  

• Planning session of the 2024 Annual Public Awareness Campaign of SFCAHT

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2023 SFCAHT Annual Conference
Human Trafficking and the Pursuit of Justice

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November 3, 2023
Milton Marks Conference Center, California State Building, 455 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco

On November 3rd we gathered for a full day conference with law enforcement agencies, businesses, survivors, service providers, and volunteers to explore the complex aspects of the pursuit of justice in the work on prosecuting and preventing human trafficking and protecting the survivors. We learned about effective partnerships and innovative programs in the field and exchanged experience and networks.

Opening Remarks presented:
Cindy Dyer, Ambassador-At-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State; Ismail J. Ramsey, United States Attorney, Northern District of California; and Aaron Peskin, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Our Keynote Speaker was Rachel Socorro, Survivor-Leader, Co-Founder & Director, Total Life Wellness

Featured Speakers and Moderators included:
The Hon. Susan Breall, California Superior Court Judge; Matt Dorsey, San Francisco Supervisor, District 6; Tatum King, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge; Lena Walther, Honorary Consul of Sweden to Nevada (Ret.); Angela Chang, Assistant Chief Attorney, Confront, San Francisco Public Defender's Office; Julia Ortiz-Rios, Trafficking and Crime Victims Assistance Program, California Department of Social Services; Giselle Ontiveros, Regional Coordinator, Trafficking Services, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, San Diego; Jason Hutchinson, Digital Forensic Evidence Lead Investigator, Northern California Regional Intelligence Center; Andrew Lewman, Chairman, E1T1 and Ianina Gabriela Lipara,Team Lead/Secretariat Coordinator, European Judicial Network

To view the conference program and speakers, Click HERE.

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General Meeting
SFCAHT

September 8, 2023
Via Zoom

At this meeting, we learn about programs and services supporting human trafficking survivors. 
The meeting program will included:

• Overview of the Survivors of Trafficking Support Program of Opening Doors, Inc. - presented by Emily Zelaya, SOT Program Manager, Opening Doors, Inc. 
• Update on the programs of the San Francisco Safety, Opportunity and Lifelong Relationships Collaborative (SF SOL) - presented by Nazneen Rydhan-Foster, Program Manager, SF SOL Collaborative & Anti-Trafficking, Department on the Status of Women.  
• Report of the SFCAHT Student Alliance - presented by Madeleine Freeland, Co-Chair of the Alliance
• Report on the planning of the 2023 Annual Conference of SFCAHT.

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General Meeting
SFCAHT

June 2, 2023
Via Zoom

The meeting program included:

• Update on the programs and Airport Initiative of the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition (BAATC) - presented by Betty Ann Hagenau,  BAATC's Co-Founder and Executive Director. 
• Update on California child labor laws and violations that lead to child exploitation and human trafficking - presented by Ruth Silver-Taube, Legal Services Co-Chair of the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, Supervising Attorney of the Workers' Rights Practice, Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, Santa Clara University School of Law and Supervising Attorney of the Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, Legal Advice Line
• Report of the SFCAHT Student Alliance - presented by Madeleine Freeland, Co-Chair

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General Meeting
SFCAHT

March 24, 2023
Via Zoom

At this meeting, we learned about San Francisco Bay Area programs aimed at human trafficking prevention and protection of the survivors. The meeting program will included:

• Overview of Love Never Fails's programs and services for survivors of human trafficking, presented by Amina Siddiqi, Program Development and Fundraising Manager, Love Never Fails.
• Overview and update on the programs of SpeakSafe - Save Adolescents from Exploitation, and Findingkids.org, Special Operations, presented by Marlene Capra, Executive Director of SpeakSafe and Findingkids.org's Special Projects Coordinator & Marin County Champion
• Update on anti-human trafficking initiatives at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women (DOSW), presented by Nazneen Rydhan-Foster Program Manager, SF SOL Collaborative & Anti-Trafficking, DOSW

•    Report from the 2023 Public Awareness Campaign of SFCAHT and planning of upcoming meetings and events.  ​
  

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​2023 Teen Power Summit of SFCAHT
Honoring the Winners of the Teen Poster, Writing & Music Contest

March 2, 2023
Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Main Public Library

At the closing of the 14th Annual Awareness Campaign of SFCAHT, we gathered for another inspiring summit to honor the winners of the 2023 Teen Poster, Writing & Music Contest and learn about youth achievements in human trafficking prevention. Students from across the Bay Area performed and shared experiences in anti-trafficking advocacy. Attendees learned how to join the movement locally and help create awareness of human trafficking in their own schools and communities. 

To see the winning submissions and more details, Click HERE

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SFCAHT Press Conference & Reception 
Kickoff of the 2023 Anti-Human Trafficking Month and Awareness Campaign

 January 11, 2023
Milton Marks Conference Center, California State Building, San Francisco

​On January 11th, we gathered for ​our featured annual event with top law enforcement and government officials, survivors, leading anti-trafficking advocates and members of the press to kick off Human Trafficking  Prevention Month and honor the 2023 Modern-Day Abolitionist Award winners (see them featured to the left). Our featured speakers were:
The Honorable Stephanie Hinds, United States Attorney for the Northern District of California
Brooke Jenkins, San Francisco District Attorney
William Scott, San Francisco Police Chief
Jeffrey Reynoso, DrPH, MPH, Regional Director – Region 9, Intergovernmental & External Affairs, Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Honorable Susan Breall, California Superior Court Judge & SFCAHT Co-Chair
Kimberly Ellis, San Francisco Department on the Status of Women Director
Patricia Lee, San Francisco Deputy Public Defender 
Taras Madison, Deputy Director of Administration and Finance, San Francisco Adult Probation Department
Benita Hopkins, Northern & Central CA Liaison for DVULI & SFCAHT Co-Chair
Antonia Lavine, SFCAHT & 24/7 Human Trafficking Hotline Director
Asian Women's Shelter Executive Director
The presentations were followed by a Media Q&A Session with top law enforcement representatives: 
Robert Tripp, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), San Francisco Field Office
Tatum King, Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), San Francisco
Sgt/Insp. Antonio Flores, San Francisco Police Department - Special Victims Unit, Human Trafficking Task Force

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