January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and the Capacity Building team is hosting a series of speakers from multiple perspectives of the field — free for our Members. Meet the speakers for this series and be sure to register!

Part 2: How Can Law Enforcement and Community Based Organizations Support Survivors of Human Trafficking?
January 20, 2021 – 10-11:30 a.m.

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There are many layers involved in helping any victim of crime, especially in human trafficking. Dissect some of those layers with experts in the field. Learn about the law enforcement perspective and steps that are initially taken. Learn what community-based organizations are doing to be trauma-informed and what programs they have implemented into the court systems.

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Detective Jason Collins has been with the Sacramento Police Department for the past 23 years, including 16 years as a Detective. He is currently assigned to the Police Department’s Human Trafficking Unit investigating crimes of Human Trafficking, Pimping, and Pandering. Detective Collins is also assigned to the Sacramento FBI Child Exploitation Task Force (CETF), where his primary responsibilities as a member of the task force are to identify and locate juvenile victims of sex trafficking and to investigate the subjects involved in their exploitation through prostitution. Detective Collins has been a Human Trafficking investigator since 2017.

Terri Galvan has a Master of Public Policy degree from USC and more than 20 years of experience working with chronically homeless women, addiction, and commercial sexual exploitation. For the past 7 years, Terri has served as the Executive Director of Community Against Sexual Harm (CASH), where she leads a staff of trained peer-specialists providing assistance to victims of commercial sexual exploitation using trauma informed practices. She is trained in domestic violence, sexual assault, trauma informed care, and human trafficking. Terri has provided training to local law enforcement, colleges, non-profit organizations, and service clubs and has worked closely with various law enforcement agencies to advance strategies to reduce the impact of commercial sexual exploitation in Sacramento County. Terri is a current Member of the UC Davis Community Advisory Board and Vice Chair of Stockton Boulevard Partnership.

Timiza Wash’s 20-year career has been defined by a bold passion for access to quality education for all, self-fulfillment, and wellness, particularly for marginalized communities. Several years ago she began working with and for survivors of human trafficking at WEAVE as an Anti-trafficking case manager. In this role she became a certified rape crisis and domestic violence counselor and collaborated with International Rescue Committee as part of the Greater Sacramento Partnership against Trafficking. Her bold and energetic approach was recognized, and she was quickly promoted to program manager, where she works directly with survivors and advocates. Timiza’s position gives her the freedom to be both creative and innovative in promoting strategies to achieve justice for clients and to shape norms within the Sacramento community. As a certified Facilitator and Trainer for the “Ending the Game” curriculum she works diligently to make this incredible survivor-informed curriculum accessible to survivors in Sacramento County. She is currently expanding her focus to include policy solutions to expand preventive and treatment services for impacted communities.

Sandy Woo- Cater is co-director for the Kern Coalition Against Human Trafficking (KCAHT) and is a project lead for CommonSpirit Health/Dignity Health’s national Violence and Human Trafficking Prevention and Response Program. In both roles, she strategizes the building of community capacity to respond to all forms of trafficking. Ms. Woo-Cater brings a unique hybrid of professional experience coming from the worlds of academia as well as on-the- ground work directly serving trafficked populations. Prior to taking a hiatus from academia to become Kern County’s first professionally trained human trafficking victim advocate, she pursued her doctoral studies in Sociology and taught at Binghamton University with a research focus on the trafficking of Chinese women in 19th Century California. She is a subject matter expert on human trafficking issues and has nearly 17 years of engagement in the anti-trafficking field. Additionally, Ms. Woo-Cater serves on the steering committee of the Central Valley Freedom Coalition and is a board of directors for Global Family Care Network. She has direct experience working out in the field on active anti- trafficking cases and/or operations alongside all levels of law enforcement including the CA Office of the Attorney General, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Homeland Security, and various local law enforcement agencies. Ms. Woo-Cater also lends her expertise to help shape anti-trafficking legislation and public policy. She is passionate about facilitating human trafficking awareness education across industries and fields through collaborative approaches.