Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking Meeting

August, 23, 2017                             1:30-3:30pm                     City Hall, Room 201

1 Dr. Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102

 

 

 

Attendees:

Stephany Ashley, St. James Infirmary; Jen Callewaert, DPH Environmental Health Branch; Victoria Chan, Advancing Justice Asian Law Caucus; Saerom Choi, APILO; Ifasina Clear, Young Women’s Freedom Center; Jen Daly; Legal Services for Children; Minh Dang, RTI International; Carly Devlin, Huckleberry Youth Services; Christy Dietrich, Department of Public Health; Eli, Freedom FWD; Adriana Flores, Consulate General of Mexico; Tony Flores, SFPD; Lili Gamero, Mayor’s Office; Pratima Gupta, St. James Infirmary; Kelly Gilliam, Nalls Foundation; Elise Hansell, Department on the Status of Women; Catie Hart, Survivor/Trainer; Emily Hinsey, Love Never Fails; Sister Rita Jovick, California Sisters Against Trafficking; Minouche Kandel, Department on the Status of Women; Lauren Keveter, Department of Public Health; Mary Kilgariff, St. Mary’s Medical Center; Antonia Lavine, SFCAHT; Rosalia Lopez, SFUSD School Health Programs; Elisabet Medina, SF Child Abuse Prevention Center; Angie Miot-Nudel, Larkin Street Youth Services; Kristen Moore, Safe House; Rose Mukhar, Justice at Last; JaMel Perkins, Freedom FWD; Jackie Ortiz, Victim Services; Sirai Smith-Mazariegos, S.H.A.D.E; Mary Steiner, United Nations Association, SF Chapter; Dongmei Tan, Department of Public Health; Alia Whitney-Johnson, Freedom FWD;

 

1. Welcome, Introductions/Check-In, Agenda was approved [Alia Whitney-Johnson /Emily Murase) approve agenda

 

2. Minutes from June 28, 2017 were approved [JaMel Perkins/Christy Dietrich]

 

3. Task Force Evaluation: Report Back on Levels of Collaboration Scale

Minh Dang presented on the ‘Levels of Collaboration Scale’. Thirty-seven total agencies were listed on the scale (27 Agencies were listed on August 2016). Twenty-two agencies responded to the survey (4 were omitted because no agency was listed on sheet). For those agencies who need to schedule a second-round interview, Minh will follow-up. A lot of work has been done on the infrastructure of the Mayor’s Task Force since the strategic planning meeting. The group discussed the need to develop a way to measure progress over time. Members of the meeting also discussed what would be a reasonable level of collaboration for the Mayor’s Task Force as a whole, and what would be a reasonable level of collaboration for different types of agencies, as these levels vary quite a bit.

• Action Item: Minh Dang will send results to Minouche to circulate with the group.

 

 

 

4. Committee Reports
   1. Executive Committee

The Executive Committee presented a draft of membership rules. Membership will be tracked over the course of a year, and agencies should strive for consistent membership of 1-2 representatives per agency. The group discussed ways to incorporate a training component for membership. [JaMel Perkins/Tony Flores moved to approve the membership rules].

 

2. Adult Trafficking Committee

The Adult Trafficking Committee reported that the translation for the Stanford Online training is complete but still needs to be uploaded to Stanford webpage. AB2125 expanded the Health Nail Salon Collaborative program across state and the Dept. of Environment reviewed the Chinese and Vietnamese translation of the labor rights component of their PPT. Dept. of Environment also ran a consumer awareness ad campaign – 20 bus stops and Facebook sponsored social media.

• Action Item: Send around stats from social media campaign.

 

APILO partnered with Justice at Last and the American Bar Association to do trainings for legal providers on record expungement efforts. SF Sheriff’s Dept. is currently reviewing the Good Food Purchasing Program for county jails. Trafficking Committee still needs to perform outreach to labor groups.

 

Kathryn Porter of the California Healthy Nails Salon Collaborative – presented on work with Assembly member David Chiu: She worked with Chiu to write AB 2125 – would still be voluntary –voluntary statewide evaluative criteria could be developed through Dept. of Toxic Substance Control and CAL-EPA. The collaborative is currently charged with outreach to city/counties on implementation and consumer awareness campaign. Porter also presented on other related pieces of legislation: AB 1575 – Caldera (San Jose) would require manufacturers of professional cosmetics to list ingredients of products that are used professionally. AB 2025 – Lorena Gonzalez- CA labor law booklet developed in conjunction with the Collaborative will be translated into Vietnamese, Korean, and Spanish.

• Action item: Victoria will send Dr. Murase’s contact info to connect with Kathryn Porter offline.

 

3. Youth Committee

Alia Whitney-Johnson presented on the “The Forward Fellowship”, a $ 5,000 stipend awarded to 6 youth fellows, aged 16-24, to cover 24 sessions throughout year. Fellows are nominated by San Francisco organizations and have all been impacted by trafficking or the sex trade. The Fellowship encompasses leadership development, task force participation, and youth project creation (with a fund for implementation of the project. Fellows will also participate in a Young Women’s Freedom Center workshop two times per month. LYRIC will assist fellows in the curriculum development workshop. The Center for Harm Reduction Therapy will provide therapeutic support to the fellows. Freedom FWD will provide partnerships, funding, and will work to codify the entire process. Alia reviewed a few guidelines for members of the Task Force: 1) please email Alia if you would like to build relationships with fellows outside of meetings, 2) share personal gender pronouns (PGP) during meeting introductions, 3) operate with curiosity rather than interrogation, for example,  “can we hear more of what X was saying about” rather than “I think you mean X.” Contact info: alia@freedomfwd.org , ifasina@youngwomenfree.org

 

4. Sex Work and Trafficking Policy Impact Committee

Stephany Ashley presented on St. James Infirmary’s Bad Date List, a violence prevention community-based program. The Bad Date List is the first ever bad date list App. The motivation behind the Bad Date List is that a lot of repeat perpetrators target sex workers due to unlikelihood that sex workers will go to police. This App provides individuals with the ability to report any experience where consent is violated on website, by phone, by paper, or through mobile app.

 

In the development of the Bad Date List App, St. James held several community sessions and paid participants of diverse genders and industry involvement for their input.

The tool is only as useful as it is widely available and counselors should know how to talk to folks about it. St. James staff are available to do a training for organization staff to educate others about the reporting.

 

 

5. Trafficking Training Provider Spreadsheet

The spreadsheet was distributed at the meeting and lists trafficking trainings that are available. This list is based on Survey Monkey results.

• Action Item: Minouche will post spreadsheet on the DOSW website.

 

 

6. 2017 Task Force Report

So far, 17 agencies have reported data and 4-5 agencies still need to report. So far, 610 individuals have been captured, 71% female, a vast majority are transitional-aged youth, and a breakdown of 40/60 labor to sex trafficking.

 

7. Agenda items for next meeting October 25, 2017

 

• Response to questions about levels of collaboartion
• Review report