Child Sex Trafficking Committee - October 19, 2016 - Minutes

Meeting Date: 
October 19, 2016 - 1:00pm
Location: 
25 Van Ness Avenue, room 330A
San Francisco, CA

 

Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking

Child Sex Trafficking Subcommittee Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

25 Van Ness Avenue, room 330A, San Francisco, CA

Attendees:

Nicole Bates- Legal Services for Children

Mollie Brown- Huckleberry Youth Services

Karen Catalona- San Francisco District Attorney’s Office

Saerom Choi- API Legal Outreach

Carly Devlin- Huckleberry Youth Services

Natasha Dolby- Private Sector

Antonio Flores- Sergeant at SFPD Special Victims Unit

Sabrina Forte- Bay Area Legal Aid

Johanna Gendelman- Family and Children’s Services

Jennifer Jackson- SFPD Special Victims Unit

Minouche Kandel- Department on the Status of Women

Antonia Lavine- Jewish Coalition Against Human Trafficking

Rebecca Marus- Public Defenders Office

Maggie McHale- Department on the Status of Women

Elisabet Medina – San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center

Angie Miof- Nude- Larkin Street Youth Services

Quarry Pak- San Francisco Unified School District

Tanaya Reid- Family and Children’s Services

Gena Castro Rodriguez- SFDA Victim Services Division

Christine Ticas- Victim Advocate DA’s office- Human Trafficking unit

 

I. Introductions

II. Presentation on Family and Children’s Services CSEC Awareness Campaign

Johanna Gendelmen updated the group on the Family and Children’s Services Awareness Campaign.

 

III. Screening Tools

The group discussed whether uniformity in the tools that youth serving agencies are using would be possible. Each agency serves their population differently and therefore have different screening tool needs and privacy guidelines. Having one tool for all youth serving agencies would require a long difficult process. If we want to obtain an unduplicated count of youth who are trafficked, using Family and Children’s Services data that is cross checked with Huckleberry Youth Services data could account for about 90% of minors. If we focus on ways to make sure each agency reports to Family and Children’s Services their trafficking cases, this is the best way to achieve an unduplicated count.

 

IV. Strategic Planning Retreat Participants

Two or three representatives from this subcommittee can attend the Mayor’s Task Force Strategic Planning Retreat. There will only at most be space for one person from each agency. The group was asked who would like to be considered to participate in the strategic planning retreat.

  Interested in attending the retreat:

Elisabet Medina- San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center

Johanna Gendelmen- Family and Children’s Services

Patrick, Carly Devlin, or Mollie Brown- Huckleberry Youth Services

Gena Castro Rodriguez, Christine Ticas - SFDA Victim Services Division

Antonia Lavine- Jewish Coalition

Saerom Choi- API Legal Outreach

 

V. Meeting Frequency and Time for 2017

Every other month works well for the group, but changing the subcommittee’s meetings to odd months would be preferable. The group suggested having a youth consultant who has firsthand experience with agencies attend the subcommittee meetings. Natasha Dolby offered to find funding for said consultant to be paid for their services.

  • Natasha will present in January on the progress towards this funding from the private sector.

 

VI. Next Steps- Agenda for December 7 meeting

December 7 meeting canceled due to SFCAHT Conference.

 

Next meeting: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 from 1:30 pm - 3 pm.

A policy update would be helpful for the group at the next meeting.

The MOU on San Francisco’s Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Program needs to be changed from “avoid arrest if at all possible” to “no arrest” due to SB 1322 decriminalization of prostitution for minors.