Child Sex Trafficking Committee - October 19, 2016 - Minutes
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.
- Email Johanna at johanna.gendelman@sfgov.org if you are willing to send it out.
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.