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Digital toolkits enabled training
to continue despite a pandemic
TAT created and released a number of digital toolkits to aid train- ers, as well as instruct businesses, on resources available to enable them to provide anti-human trafficking training for employees, customers and the community; adopt anti-trafficking-in-persons policies with a demand-reduction focus; and participate in victim- centered public awareness campaigns.
The toolkits define human trafficking, discuss the stages of the crime, provide the intersections these industry sectors have with human trafficking, detail the signs that human trafficking is taking place, as well as give information on the human trafficking hotlines for both Canada and the United States. Additionally, they highlight best practices, offer simple lesson plans and share case studies.
Specific toolkits include a business engagement toolkit, a trucking tool- kit, a truck stop toolkit, a transit agency toolkit, a school bus toolkit, an Empower Freedom toolkit for energy and a state agency toolkit.
Driving Freedom Podcasts
cover wide range of topics
To expand its digital resources as it educates, equips, empowers
and mobilizes members of the truck, bus and energy industries to combat human trafficking as part of their regular jobs, TAT cre- ated a podcast, titled Driving Freedom. These short episodes refresh critical issues learned about human trafficking, so this life-saving information stays top of mind for members of the largest mobile army of eyes and ears out on the roads who are seeking to recognize and report this heinous crime.
Podcast topics in 2020 included the Victim-Centered Approach with Annika Huff; Addressing Demand with Alan Smyth; The “Life”, Vulnerabilities and a Better Way Out with Christine McDonald; How TAT Started with Lyn Leeburg; Conspiracy
Theories with Annie Sovcik and Lexi Higgins; Keeping Kids
Safe Online with Sydney Zuiker; Familial Trafficking with Liz Williamson; and The Importance of Calling the National Human Trafficking Hotline with Megan Cutter; and Driver to Driver with Barry Holland and Antoine Sadler.
TAT Canada gains traction
TAT Training Specialist and Survivor-Advocate Liz Williamson joined TAT in 2020 and assumed TAT Canada as part of her duties. Fifteen trucking companies have already TAT Trained their driv-
ers in Canada, UPS Canada chief among them. An additional 26 companies have pledged to train in 2021, including Kriska Holdings and Day&Ross.
TAT’s Director of Coalition Builds speaks
to United Nations Expert Group Meeting
Esther Goetsch, TAT’s Coalition Build director, presented to a two-day Regional Expert Group Meeting (REGM) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in December. The REGM gathered stakeholders of origin, transit and destination from the Mexican, Central American and Caribbean region, in addition to the United States, to discuss fostering cooperation between the public and private sector to counter trafficking in persons.
Goestch spoke on TAT’s mission, engaging the private sector through industry-specific training and points of intersection, with key public sector partners who also work with these industries on a daily basis and potentially interact with victims, as well as the mechanisms TAT uses to build public-private partnerships.
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TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING 2020 ANNUAL REPORT
Of special note in 2020...
Liz Williamson