The Admendations Of Adolescent Health

Human trafficking is one of the largest growing criminal activities. The commercial sexual exploitation of children, also known as CSEC, is often perceived as a hidden atrocity that occurs in an international setting. However, this manifestation of sexual abuse has increased and has become a recognized health issue in the United States. You may hear this problem to be known as domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST). Domestic minor sex trafficking is defined as the “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act” where the person is a citizen younger than the age of 18 years by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. This includes sexual acts like survival sex, prostitution, and stripping, where the child is the victim of criminal exploitation in exchange for remuneration in the form of money, food, shelter, or other valued entity. Approximately twenty-eight percent of US minors living on the streets are reported to exchanging sex for drugs or money. The estimation so far is that 150,000 to 300,000 children are falling at risk of being victimized each year, and the average age at which they are recruited is twelve to fourteen years of age. By raising awareness we are avoiding children suffering from long-term health consequences such as severe sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. By raising awareness a family may not lose their little boy or girl to human trafficking. Consider how many young women have been kidnapped, drugged, tricked or even sold by

Rehabilitation for victims is available such as Freedom Place and Dream Center. Joy Friedman, a survivor of 27 years of sex trafficking in the United States, now serves as women’s program manager at Breaking Free, a Minnesota nonprofit group that helps women and children escape that world. On average, sex trafficking victims are between 12 and 14. It is estimated that between 100,000 and 300,000 U.S. children are sex slaves. Providing care for these victims is very important, their self-esteem is completely demolished and don’t know where to begin to fix themselves.

Many life changing stories have been publically announced through Covered. Their advocacy has shown the need for more education, awareness, and assistance in the area of sex trafficking; this is where the health care profession can play our part. Studies show that women often end up in a medical facility where nurses have the opportunity to identify and intervene to help make a difference (Konstantopoulos et al., 2013). Nurses have multiple capabilities to advocate and provide care for this demographic.

This journal article examines the issue of minor sex trafficking in the U.S and provides the reader with the results of the research that was conducted on the matter at hand. A data analysis consisting of 115 minor sex trafficking was thoroughly examined and studied. The information surrounding these cases was collected using two specific methods. One method included the reviewing of press releases of human trafficking cases

Sex trafficking survivors experience a variety of health consequences after being trafficked. In the article, “Comprehensive Care Model for Sex Trafficking Survivors,” Naomi M. Twigg describes aftercare services for a domestic minor of sex trafficking (DMST) survivors provided by U.S. residential treatment centers and the roles that nurses have in DMST survivor’s lives.

Chapter seven is principally about providing helpful suggestion that can further enhance encouraging efforts to combat sex trafficking. The chapter starts off by implicating the use of the research findings that were found to be effective with sex trafficking victims. These proposals are not meant to be perceived as the remedy to aiding sex trafficking, but to cultivate additional research on these methods. These methods include survivor-informed programming, survivor defined practices, trauma-informed practices, and sex-trafficking-specific services. Further, the chapter begins to talk about the services that are needed for labor trafficking victims. Translating agencies, labor-specific services, and housing are examples of services that labor

Many victims are looking for basic needs by escaping their dysfunctional support system. Juveniles that are considered “chronic runaways” are at the highest risk as they are likely to be taken in by a trafficker that provides the “survival needs” the juvenile is searching for (Perkins & Ruiz, 2016). Seventy-five percent of juveniles involved in prostitution have run away from home (Bergman, 2012).

In chapter 6, the main focus is on services and the necessary care for survivors and victims of sex trafficking. These services are very specific to adequately insure the rehabilitation of sex trafficked victims. There are many problems when it comes to theses services and there are also things that work for victims. For example, many of them lack funding and availability forcing some survivors to go to alternative services which is problematic in itself. It is problematic because it allows untreated survivors who are unsure or unable to come to grasp with their suffering to a plethora of at-risk individuals. The “unique trauma” caused by sex trafficking was also discussed in this chapter. The trauma of sex trafficking is distinctive because

The local and state law enforcement agencies are identified as the epicenter for contacting, identifying, and rescuing sex trafficking victims. Due to this, the biggest problem with recognizing and saving victims comes from the deficiency of local level resources and plans to diminish sex human trafficking. During 2007 and 2008, the Department of Justice recorded that the law enforcement officials arrested sixty-eight percent of trafficking offenders. The law enforcement’s main issue that prevents them from identifying and freeing victims is a lack of partnership with nongovernmental service providers, law enforcement agencies, and health care providers. The partnership can help better them identifying victims and persecuting the trafficker (Helton 449). Not having the partnership and not having laws in all states is the government’s down

In the United States, estimates suggest that over 300,000 women and children become victims of commercial sexual exploitation in relation to human trafficking. Sexual exploitation plays a huge part on individual victims, who often suffer physical and emotional abuse, rape, threats against self and family, passport theft, and even death. The impact of human trafficking on victims can take many forms and can have a lasting effect on the victim’s quality of life. Women and children are smuggled across national borders and forced in factories and brothels and made to perform sex acts against their will. One

In 2013, Konstantopoulos et al. performed a research study trying to determine how public health effects sex trafficking victims. The study consisted of interviews in eight different cities around the world. They interviewed 277 anti-trafficking stakeholders to look at sex trafficking at a local context. The authors looked at questions that consisted of: who is being trafficked, what causes these individuals to be trafficked and how does healthcare impact these individuals? The study was conducted through interviews that took around sixty minutes to conduct and the study lasted for twelve months. The cities that was included in the study consists of: Los Angeles, New York City, London, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Kolkata, Mumbai and Manila (Konstantopoulos,

As you may be aware, sex trafficking is a widespread problem for which there are no preventative measures. According to Dawn McBane, “Worldwide, almost 20% of all trafficking victims are children” (Focus on the Family). The reason for sex trafficking is to satisfy the physiological needs of many people who are addicted

This journal article titled Sex trafficking of adolescents and young adults in the United States: healthcare provider's role, has three main points. One, sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation are increasingly being recognized in the United States and global public as health problems. Two, victims interact with healthcare providers, but due to the lack of training and protocols they often go unnoticed. Three, healthcare providers play an important role in identifying, assessing and responding to the needs of victims and survivors and implementing policies and protocols to prevent sex trafficking.

Traffickers manipulate adolescents and youth into the sex trafficking through targeting their emotional vulnerabilities. To begin, traffickers use threats, intimidation and violence to enforce or entice adolescents into trafficking. One adolescent, a runaway from Baltimore County, Maryland, is gang raped by a group of men associated with the trafficker, who thereafter executes a “rescue” (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011) Following the “rescue”, the trafficker imposes she recompense him by working for him as one of his prostitutes (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011). Unfortunately, in many cases youth are generally beaten up until they yield to the trafficker’s orders (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011).

Over the last quarter century, there has been an increase in evidence based research and action from national, international, and non-governmental organizations on the health of adolescents.1 Moving into the post 2015 agenda, there has been a recent convergence of international attention for adolescent health with a 20 year review of progress on achieving the goals of the Cairo programme of action, the millennium development goals progress review, and the 2011 World Health Assembly resolution on youth and health risk.1,2 While adolescent health is an emerging area, it remains neglected without a single agency or institution with a directive that focuses exclusively on adolescents.3 Furthermore, the current proposal for the Sustainable Development Goals that will supersede the Millennium Development Goals after 2015, does not propose a target primarily related to adolescent health.4