Resources: 4 Supporting Victims

• Your Money, Your Goals: A financial empowerment toolkit for workers This toolkit enables service providers to assist clients with budget assessment and the development of budget plans and goals.
• The IOM Handbook on Direct Assistance for Victims of Trafficking (2007) This handbook, developed by the International Organization for Migration, provides guidance and advice necessary to effectively deliver a full range of assistance to victims of trafficking from the point of initial contact and screening up to the effective social reintegration of the individuals concerned.
• Domestic & Sexual Violence Advocate Handbook on Human Trafficking (2004) This handbook is designed for domestic violence and sexual violence advocates. Developed by the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, it provides basic information on human trafficking and how to identify and assist a person who is trafficked.
• Look Beneath the Surface: Role of Social Service Providers in Identifying and Helping Victims of Human Trafficking Created as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Campaign to Rescue and Restore Campaign Toolkit, this ready-made PowerPoint presentation is for service providers providing training on the general overview of human trafficking and the important role of victim service providers.

• The SANE Program Development and Operation Guide provides a blueprint for nurses and communities that would like to start a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program.

• Pennsylvania Sexual Violence Benchbook
  Benchbook provides best practices and critical information regarding procedural requirements for trial judges to address sexual offense cases.
• Creating and Sustaining a Local Response to Human Trafficking: Compendium of Promising Practices (2012) This report provides a review of promising practices from HHS Rescue and Restore grantees on partnerships, training, and program implementation.
• Building Child Welfare Response to Child Trafficking: A guide to help any child welfare system make specific reforms in order to identify and assist child trafficking victims.
• Real Tools: Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma – A Tool Kit to Help Advocates and Community Partners Better Serve People With Multiple Issues (2011) The primary goal of Real Tools: Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma is to help advocates and other service providers understand the safety, autonomy, recovery, wellness, and justice needs of people who are impacted by multiple co-occurring issues. The manual is designed to go beyond theory to give advocates and their community partners practical tools to address those needs.
• HHS Toolkits for Social Service Providers Published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, these toolkits provide background information and guidance for social service providers to identify and communicate with victims of human trafficking.
• Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force Screening Tool This document provides each state agency’s identified training officer(s) with a simple, straightforward, and easy-to-adapt guide to train staff on how to administer the standardized screening tool for identifying trafficking victims. The purpose of the tool is to identify potential victims of human trafficking for referral to appropriate victim services. While the screening questions, suggestions, and indicators are not exhaustive or cumulative in nature, a positive response to the questions may result in a referral to an external organization for a more comprehensive assessment.
• Needs Assessment for Service Providers and Trafficking Victims (2003) This document reports the findings from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) National Needs Assessment of Service Providers and Trafficking Victims. The needs assessment was designed to answer the questions of what services exist for trafficking victims; how responsive these services are to victims; what barriers there are to providing services; and what assistance/support service providers need to serve trafficking victims.
• Communicating Effectively With Limited-English Proficient Individuals This video series from the Department of Justice, designed for federal personnel, notes appropriate responses to limited-English proficient (LEP) individuals. The training provides case scenarios that guide the viewer to determine the most appropriate ways to interview and respond to LEP individuals. 

Intersection with Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

• The Intersection of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Human Trafficking This fact sheet helps justice system stakeholders understand the overlap of human trafficking and intimate partner violence. This sheet also offers advice for planning or enhancing court-based responses.
• Intersections of Domestic Violence & Human Trafficking: Developing a Lens for Intimate Partner and Familial Trafficking This 47-minute PowerPoint presentation on the NHTRC Hotline was developed by Polaris and made possible in part through a grant from HHS/ORR. It is also listed on the landing page of Polaris' Resources. The topics include intersections of human trafficking and domestic violence and descriptions of sex and labor trafficking by an intimate partner or family member.