Healthcare and Human Trafficking in Cambodia
My interview with Dr. Judy Norman (OB/GYN) about her work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where she teaches Gynecology and Women's Health. Dr. Norman is doing some remarkable out-of-the-box interventions to improve the health and wellness of women in places like garment...
Deplorable NGOs and Due Diligence
In this podcast I address the issues surrounding three counter-trafficking organizations which have taken wrong and deplorable turns. I also take this opportunity discuss due diligence and how institutions and individuals can evaluate an organization they are...
Essential Principles of Self-Care
Most of my time I discuss the health and wellbeing of survivors of trafficking/slavery/exploitation and there is a lot of cross-over application of those topics to the lives of those who serve these people. The most important of these topics is self-care. Self-care is...
CheckPoint Newsletter 3rd & 4th Quarter 2020
Dear friends, I hope that this finds you safe and sound and surrounded by people you love this time of year. This year has definitely presented some interesting, challenging, and difficult times, but hopefully there were some joyful and peaceful times as well. Here is...
Loverboys and Sex Trafficking Prevention
In this interview with Shannon, the Executive Director and co-Founder of Netzwerk gegen Menschenhandel (Network against Human Trafficking) and the project Liebe ohne Zwang (Love without Coercion) we discuss her organization's innovative efforts to prevent sex...
Prostitution and COVID in Germany
For this webinar I interviewed my colleague Rhonda who is the director of an organization that helps women exit prostitution in Germany. I think you’ll get much more from the video interview, but here I provide a summary and paraphrasing of our conversation with some...
Conspiracy Theories, Sensationalism and Human Trafficking
Given the emotionally charged and underground nature of this crime, human trafficking is susceptible to both sensationalism and conspiracy talk. The recent developments of the QAnon conspiracy affair in which it used networks of the anti-trafficking movement to...
Online Outreach in the Era of COVID
On 2 November I hosted Cristhina on The Doctor Is IN! webinar for a discussion about online outreach to sexually exploited and trafficked women. She discusses her organization’s development of an online outreach approach and shares some how-to pointers for those who...
Informed Consent: A Crucial Foundation
I’m following up my last webinar/blog on strengths-based interviewing with a focus on informed consent. The YouTube video of the talk is on my channel in case you would rather listen than read. Although it doesn’t sound like an exciting topic it is one of the most...