Human trafficking is a complex issue that impacts millions of individuals, families, and communities globally. Yet too often it is discussed as a solitary phenomenon without taking into consideration the multiple factors that create vulnerability or the composite response necessary to successfully address the needs of victims and survivors. This year’s conference embraces intersectionality: a framework that examines overlapping oppressions.
The Freedom Network’s 14th annual conference, Bridging the Gap: Building a Movement through Partnership, Prevention, Protection, and Prosecution, seeks to embrace this complexity and forge partnerships—taking trafficking out of its silo to explore its root causes and best practice interventions. We welcome current (and future!) anti-trafficking stakeholders to join us as we endeavor to better understand human trafficking as it intersects with a variety of systems, institutions and social concerns.
Featured Speakers include: Survivors of Human Trafficking and Office for Victim of Crime Consultants; Attorneys of Immigrant, Worker, and Victim Rights; Representatives of Law Enforcement and Government Agencies; Medical Professionals; the Freedom Network Members, comprising of Advocates, Attorneys, Professors, Social Workers, and Experts working on Human Trafficking. Hear from 60+ different anti-trafficking experts, attend plenaries, panels and workshops, network with our members, and join the movement.
Conference Workshop Themes
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Human Rights
Praxis and Research
Case studies of Individuals & Groups
Child Welfare
Culture & Difference
Disabilities & Human Trafficking
Domestic Violence & Human Trafficking
The Drug Industry
Federal Overview and perspectives in Anti-Trafficking Endeavors
Freedom Network Training Institute
Legal and social perceptions of fraud
Healthcare responses
Housing First
Intervention courts
Investigation & Prosecution
Labor/Worker Rights & Labor Trafficking
Laws & Policy
Media Representation, Messaging, & Misinformation
Task Forces & Collaboration
Transgender People’s Experiences
USCIS
Victim Compensation
Past, Present, and Future Directions of the Anti-Trafficking Movement: Reflections with the Freedom Network Founders and Survivors of Human Trafficking
Award Ceremony
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We invite all conference attendees to join us for our Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award Ceremony on April 4th at 6:30PM.
For updates on the Program, visit: http://freedomnetworkusa.org/news-events/annual-conference/
Contact the Co-Chairs Annie Isabel Fukushima and Megan Mahoney or our National Coordinator, Melinda Smith at conference@freedomnetworkusa.org
