2 year Strategic Plan
Awareness/Prevention:
1. Educate community members, service providers, groups and organizations about the prevalence of local, national, and global sex trafficking
2. Build a community network to identify signs of trafficking and be equipped to take action
3. Identify at-risk populations and seek to strengthen local efforts that provide opportunities to educate, empower and protect the vulnerability of these individuals and their families
4. Acknowledge and instill efforts to reduce the demand in our culture’s sex industry
Action:
1. Strengthen laws, train law enforcement and heighten community standards that will remove trafficking and reduce the demand of the sex industry within our region
2. Identify plans for outreach, investigation and rescue of trafficking victims in the Lehigh Valley
3. Develop and utilize a unified response effort amongst community members, law enforcement, and services for victims
4. Advocate and serve the exploited
Aftercare:
1. Equip and utilize local services to care for the needs of victims including healthcare, legal services, shelter, educational/vocational skills, counseling, spiritual and social support
2. Re-integrate individuals back in the community through a support network that fosters independence and life skills
October 25, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Dear VAST,
Keep up the great work! We admire all you are doing, from your friends in the DE Valley who are slightly behind you in getting organized!
Blessings,
David
November 22, 2011 at 11:27 am
Never seen a btteer post! ICOCBW