UofL Human Trafficking Research Initiative

📣 Calling all first responders & helping professionals! 📣

Please join us for the closing session of the 2025 PCAIN Signature Webinar Series on Friday, February 28th! Learn how to mitigate the impact of secondary trauma for you & your team! Please see the series flyer below for more information! Folx can register directly using the link below.

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Congratulations to UofL HTRI’s Dr. Jennifer Middleton, along with her colleague, Dr. Shantel Crosby, and project coordinators Samantha Revill, Tekea Minnis and Andreana Bridges, who presented the findings from their community needs and resources assessment at the Trauma Resilient Communties (TRC) project launch held at the Waterfront Botanical Gardens, June 27.

The Healing Project, a $4 million SAMHSA grant funded project, will help shape the services in communities that have been impacted by violence, especially Latinx and African communities in the Louisville Metro area. The project is in partnership with the Louisville Metro Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods, La Casita and the Somali Community Center.

Today's Scholar Feature Friday is Dr. Jennifer Middleton, one of our GAHTS Senior Research Scholars, who is a professor in the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville.

Attention human trafficking providers and first responders in the Louisville area! ✨ Join us for this FREE two-part series to learn about new trauma-resilient tools and strategies for mitigating the impact of secondary trauma on clinicians and first responders. Dr. Jennifer Middleton (UofL HTRI Director) will be co-facilitating alongside her esteemed colleagues, Dr. Shantel Crosby and Beatriz Vides. Pre-registration is required. Please use the QR code below to pre-register.



Kent School of Social Work and Family Science - University of Louisville

Congratulations to UofL Human Trafficking Research Initiative Director, Dr. Jennifer Middleton, for receiving the 2024 Outstanding Community Engagement Award today at the 6th Annual Engaged Scholarship Symposium at the University of Louisville! ✨
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Join us on April 11th at the 6th Annual Southern Indiana Human Trafficking Awareness Conference. Registration is FREE, just scan the QR code in the photo below to reserve your spot! Our very own Director, Dr. Jennifer Middleton, and her esteemed colleague, Beatriz Vides, will facilitate a 2-part workshop series called MIST: Mitigating the Impact of Secondary Trauma for first responders and other helping professionals who work with survivors of human trafficking. Learn about tools and strategies for wellbeing, self preservation, team care, and building workplace “resilience zones.” ✨✨✨


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Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Middleton and the UofL Human Trafficking Research Initiative for being selected to serve as a lead Training & Technical Assistance (TTA) provider for the Office for Victims of Crime. Dr. Middleton and her team will provide TTA services to over 300 organizations working to prevent child trafficking in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force to Prevent Human Trafficking, released the National Human Trafficking Prevention Framework. To access a FREE copy of the framework, click on the link below.

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/otip/HHS%20Human%20Trafficking%20Prevention%20Framework_Final.pdf

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force to Prevent Human Trafficking, released the National Human Trafficking Prevention Framework. Building on decades of work to prevent violence, this framework is a resource for organizations, communities and governments seeking to strengthen efforts to prevent human trafficking. It reflects research and best practices in violence prevention and health promotion, as well as the expertise of people who have experienced human trafficking and allied professionals. Listen as co-chairs of the HHS Task Force to Prevent Human Trafficking—Acting Assistant Secretary Jeff Hild and Assistant Secretary Admiral Rachel Levine—discuss key elements of the Framework.

HHS Releases the National Human Trafficking Prevention Framework Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force to Prevent Human Trafficking, released the National Human Trafficki...

Did you know blue is the international color of Human Trafficking awareness? 💙💙💙 There are many ways you can get involved on and raise awareness of human trafficking. The UofL Human Trafficking Research Initiative and the Department of Homeland Security invite you to do the following on January 11:

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