Providing Quality Shelter Services for Survivors of Sex Trafficking

Christian Trafficking Shelter Conference March 11, 2010
Conference Schedule

9:00- 9:15 AM: Registration

9:15- 9:30 AM: Welcome and Prayer– The Home Foundation

9:30- 10:30 AM: Plenary Session 1- “Together we are better: Building Survivor-centered

Service Provider Networks”

Dr. Laura Lederer

10:30-11:30 AM Plenary Session 2: “Interacting with law enforcement and service providers

in your area; researching TIP in your region. Security Considerations for shelter programs”

Dr. J. Bob Flores

11:30-11:45 AM Break

11:45-12:30 PM Workshops 1 & 2

Workshop 1:

The steps involved in starting a trafficking shelter and becoming a part of the Christian

Trafficking Shelter Association

Dr. Jeffrey Barrows

Workshop 2:

How To build relationships and interact with the existing

psychological services in your area.

Nita Andrews

12:30-1:15 PM Lunch

1:15-2:15 PM Plenary Session 3: “Abolition’s Revival: Three Centuries of Faith-based

Responses to Prostitution and Sexual Trafficking.”

Lisa Thompson

2:15-2:30 PM Break to Workshops

2:30-3:15 PM Workshops 3 & 4

Workshop 3: “A Focus on Demand – Why It’s Important”

Dr. Laura Lederer

Workshop 4: TBD

3:15-4:00 PM Plenary Session 4:“Be the Change – Why a Christ-centered Approach is the Only Answer”

Nancy Alcorn

4:00-4:30 PM Panel discussion and questions

4:30 PM Dismissal

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Speaker Information:

Nancy Alcorn

Nancy Alcorn spent the first eight years of her career working for the state of Tennessee. Her time with the government included five years with the Department of Corrections working with juvenile delinquent girls, and three years with the Department of Human Services working in Emergency Protective Services investigating child abuse cases and supervising foster care. It was during this time of government work that Nancy realized the inadequacy of these programs to offer real transformation in the lives of troubled individuals. Out of this experience came a driving passion for broken young girls that led to the birth of Mercy Ministries in 1983. Since that time, numerous residential and outreach programs have been established in various locations across America and other nations around the world. The ministry continues to grow and expand. Nancy is an author, and she frequently speaks at conferences around the world. She resides in Nashville, TN, which is also the home of the national and international headquarters of Mercy Ministries.

Nita Andrews, M.A., L. P. C.

Nita lives in Franklin, TN with the three men in her life. She enjoys the challenge of parenting two teen boys. Her husband, Al Andrews, is a director of a non profit counseling agency and he also provides guidance and counseling for individuals in time of crisis. As a couple the Andrews’ were trained for six years by Dr. Dan Allender in ways to make the most helpful intervention for victims of sexual abuse. They led Recovery weeks in Denver and they have spent two decades working exclusively in the field of Christian Counseling. Nita has a passionate heart for holistic care and wants to help others cultivate important relationships to provide the best possible care for women in crisis.

Dr. Jeff Barrows

Dr. Jeffrey Barrows is an Obstetrician/Gynecologist who through his work with the Christian Medical Association was asked in 2005 by the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons to research the health consequences of human trafficking. From 2005 until 2008, Dr Barrows submitted an annual report on the health consequences of human trafficking to the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. This research resulted in the publication of an article entitled “Human Trafficking and the Healthcare Professional” in the May 2008 issue of the Southern Medical Journal. In 2006, he completed a consultation on the health needs of trafficking victims in Sierra Leone and Liberia for the State Department. He also serves as Founder and Executive Director of Gracehaven, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of domestic minor sex trafficking in Ohio, as well as developing a shelter for adolescent girls who have been commercially sexually exploited in central Ohio.

J. Bob Flores

A longtime advocate for children, J. Robert Flores has led a distinguished career in juvenile and criminal justice.  In January of 2009, he completed the longest tenure of any Administrator of the United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, having served since April of 2002.  Previously, Mr. Flores served in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Justice Department and was an Assistant District Attorney in New York City. Mr. Flores is an experienced lawyer and former prosecutor who is an expert in Internet facilitated crime, sexual exploitation, and the trafficking of children.  Mr. Flores has been a lecturer and featured speaker on Constitutional Law, technology, Interagency collaboration, and juvenile justice. Mr. Flores has trained agents from the FBI, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Service, and Postal Inspection Service, on sexual exploitation, working with treatment professionals, organizing multi-disciplinary teams, and child prostitution.  He lead successful efforts at the Justice Department to improve law enforcement and advocate partnerships, oversaw important research into child prostitution, and funded expanded work by major cities in the United States to improve services for victims. Mr. Flores is a leader in joining efforts to address human trafficking with commercial sexual exploitation through pornography, prostitution, and the Internet.  In private practice today, his firm provides services to non-profit organizations that want to harness technology to leverage their growth, create fee for service opportunities to help fund core activities, and work effectively with government agencies at every level.

Dr. Laura Lederer

Dr. Laura Lederer founded and directed The Protection Project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997. In 2000, she moved The Protection Project to Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center, where she has taught for six years, including the first full course on international trafficking in persons offered at a law school. For five years she served as Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons to Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. She was Senior Director of Global Projects on Trafficking in Persons in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State. For seven years, she held the Executive Directorship of the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons, a high level interagency policy group that staffed the President’s cabinet-level Inter-agency Task Force on Trafficking in Persons. She is the editor of Take Back the Night, published in 1980 by William and Morrow (hardcover) and Bantam Books (paperback), and The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1995, and the author of numerous articles on trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of women and children. Currently she is Vice President for Policy and Planning for Global Centurion, a new NGO dedicated to fighting child sex trafficking.

James Pond
James Pond, MA is the Founder and Executive Director of Transitions Global – an organization building new lives for survivors of sex trafficking. James spent eight years in Marine Corps intelligence and special operations and has worked as an investigator and security consultant.  While working in corporate business, James began working on his Master’s degree and researching global slavery issues. In 2004, after watching a Dateline special on sex trafficking in Southeast Asia, James and his wife Athena, moved their family to Cambodia where they developed a well-established aftercare program for sexually trafficked girls. They currently operate an innovative, transitional aftercare program for sex trafficking survivors in Cambodia and India, and have worked on domestic trafficking issues in the United States. James is also consulting on anti-human trafficking projects in Indonesia and Greece. He currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and three children.

Lisa L. Thompson

Lisa L. Thompson is the Liaison for the Abolition of Sexual Trafficking for The Salvation Army USA National Headquarters. In this roll, she works on public policy issues and initiatives related to eradicating sexual trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. She also assists in the development of strategies for The Salvation Army to create recovery services for survivors of sexual trafficking. Lisa writes on the topics of sexual trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation for publications such as Christian History and Biography, Caring, Mutuality, PRISM, Social Work and Christianity, and is a contributing author to Hands that Heal, International Curriculum for Caregivers of Trafficking Survivors as well as the forthcoming book The Prostitution of Women, Men and Children: A Global Perspective. She has provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress and also routinely speaks and facilitates training for a variety of audiences. Prior to her arrival at The Salvation Army, Lisa served as Policy Representative for the National Association of Evangelicals’ (NAE) Office for Governmental Affairs in Washington, DC, from 1998 to 2001. There she was heavily involved in NAE’s efforts seeking passage of legislation now known as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Lisa has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Western Kentucky University, as well as a Master’s degree in leadership, public policy and social issues from Union Institute and University. She currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia, with her two cats, Noodle and Macaroni, and is the proud aunt of her nephew Michael.