feldenkrais method - it is a somatic psychology/movement therapy - would be helpful for sexual abuse survivors

Feldenkrais method - it is a somatic psychology/movement therapy - would be helpful for sexual abuse survivors; to get back in touch with their nervous system and mind-body connection after years of having to shut down or shut sensation out.

Somaly Mam Foundation Partners with the Office of the Mayor of New York to Launch Human Trafficking Awareness Campaign Citywide

Somaly Mam Foundation Partners with the Office of the Mayor of New York to Launch Human Trafficking Awareness Campaign Citywide

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4 P' in Human Trafficking?

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Response 4 P'
Check:
http://www.no-trafficking.org/resources_background_response.html
http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/chronicle/cache/bypass/lang/en/home/archive/issues2010/empowering

Ethics & Human Rights in Human Trafficking

In response to gaps in previously published guidelines available to the counter-trafficking practitioners, UNIAP launched its ethics project.

In September 2008 UNIAP published a Guide to Ethics and Human Rights in Counter-Trafficking as a practical tool for researchers and programmers to increase understanding of concepts like informed consent, confidentiality, and coercion.

Download the Guide to Ethics and Human Rights in Counter-Trafficking
http://www.no-trafficking.org/init_ethics.html

The role of caseworker/case manager in assisting trafficked persons

1. Enabler role. In earlier literature of social work, this role would be described as “supportive”. The enabler encourages, motivates, and supports the client to make relevant decisions, and to take action on his/her own. In some situations, of course, typical for the initial phase of the rescue process, the case manager will have to take actions for the trafficked person, but the ideal is to maximise the persons’ involvement in the helping process.

2. Trainer role. One should expect that after a long time of abuse and deprivation from basic human rights, many trafficked persons will not have the necessary skills to make even the most elementary personal decisions, such as a decision for or against being interviewed. Training programs designed to teach various skills across the life span (e.g. survival skills such as shopping, house cleaning, using public transportation, managing money etc.), should be provided all along the case management and recovery programme not just by a single case manager but by a full team of rescue workers (Curran and Monti, 1982).

3. Referral role. The referral role represents one of the most common activities in case management. Knowledge of the formal, informal, and indigenous resources in a community where the case management is taking place is critical to the success of program planning and implementation. However, knowledge alone will not guarantee “success”. Linking and community networking are also essential functions of case management. Both ask for the caregiver’s ability to develop contacts and create close working alliances with other case managers, professionals, other potential helpers and the local authorities in the community (in some cases, for instance, a working alliance with religious community

leaders may be more promising than working with local policy makers or NGOs).

4. Mediator role. The purpose of mediation is not to create new linkages, as in the referral role, but to improve the trafficked person’s existing connections and relationships in his/her new social environment or community of origin. The ethical issue in mediation is that the case manager must stay “neutral”, or at least appear neutral to all involved, because a mediator is not an “advocate”, but should take a position between the helped person and her potential resource group.

5. Resource developer. In many cases, the focal problem is the lack of resources for reintegration. Resource development can be conceptualised at two levels: There is the largescale programme development approach which attempts to create services and resources for a large number of persons with the same experience (e.g. prevention program of re-trafficking). The other, more narrow-scoped level is focused on the development, mobilisation, or reorganisation of close interpersonal resources, such as initiating self-help/mutual aid associations at municipal or national level.

6. Advocacy role. By definition, advocacy is a partisan role. Unlike in all above listed roles, as an advocate the case manager must take a firm position with (or on behalf of) the trafficked person to address the injustice that has befallen him/her from persons or groups s/he has been (and perhaps still is) attached to. Of the many different forms of advocacy, the crucial role of case advocacy should be highlighted. This is a specific kind of reintegration help not only for individual persons, but for whole groups (or classes) of persons with trafficking experience. Case advocacy should be at the level of local communities and “natural” social support systems (“old” or “new” ones), which might otherwise socially exclude trafficked persons.. Source: IOM

INTRODUCTION

Background:

So far there has been no systematic approach for rehabilitating victims of trafficking in most developing countries of Asia. As a result, different institutions follow different approaches, depending on their subjective understanding of case management and what rehabilitation is.

They determine the services and process of rehabilitation, which typically do not constitute a professional and needs-based model. In a survey of programmes, examples ranged from reuniting victims with their families immediately after rescue without any other support services to the provision of food and shelter only for certain periods and so-called life skills training or non-formal education for a few months. Essential elements of the rehabilitation process such as medical assessments, health care services, psychological counselling and vocational counselling, were either absent or nominal. In many cases, even post-rehabilitation followup,
and family counselling, were absent.

At the points of destination, victims of trafficking hardly ever receive medical care, they may endure physical and sexual abuses, which exposes them to sexually transmitted infections. Many thus are rescued in poor health. They require a comprehensive medical examination and health care services. Many need psychological counselling and social support. If family members were involved in the trafficking, social workers must assess the family situation before a victim can be returned home. Many victims also need legal assistance once they are rescued and taken to a safe place.

The multidisciplinary approach (MDA) to rehabilitation is based on the principle that the effective rehabilitation of trafficking victims who have experienced various types of abuse requires systematic and coordinated services from physicians, psychologists, legal experts, social workers and other relevant experts.

The approach is presented in this CASE MANAGEMENT group as a joint ACTION of the partnerships to promote this high-level standard for case management and rehabilitation of trafficked persons in the Asia region.

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