Workshops and Resources

State Law

• California Penal Code Section 236.1

About The Workgroup

Formation

• Assembly Bill 2035 - Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Minors
• Veto Message*
  • *In his Veto Message, the Governor directed CDSS to form a Workgroup to investigate Child Labor Trafficking and possible responses

Workgroup Meetings

• Quarterly meetings are facilitated by the Preventing and Addressing Child Trafficking (PACT) Program Coordinator
• Contact CSECProgram@dss.ca.gov for more information

Resources and Articles

Fact Sheets

• Child Trafficking for Labor in the United States (Freedom Network USA, 2012)
• End Trafficking and End Trafficking Toolkit (UNICEF)
• Fact Sheet: Child Victims of Human Trafficking (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:Administration for Children and Families:Office of Refugee Resettlement, 2012)
• Fact Sheet: Labor Trafficking (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:Administration for Children and Families:Office of Refugee Resettlement, 2012)

Child Labor Trafficking-Related Organizations

State

• Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
• State of California Department of Justice:Office of the Attorney General: Human Trafficking Page
• Human Trafficking Legislation (California State and Federal)

National

• Missing and Exploited Children’s Program (MECP)
• National Educators to Stop Trafficking (NEST)
• National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC)
• Polaris Project
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Administration for Children and Families: Office of Refugee Resettlement
• Anti-Trafficking in Persons Page

Reports from California

• The State of Human Trafficking in California (Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, California Department of Justice, 2012)

Reports and Protocols from Other States

• National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) Data Breakdown: 1/1/2014-12/31/2014 (NHTRC, 2015)

Reports on National Populations

• Building Child Welfare Response to Child Trafficking (Loyola University Chicago: Center for the Human Rights for Children & International Organization for Adolescents, 2011)
• Child labor trafficking is a child welfare issue.The experience of ChildRight: Building Child Welfare Response to Child Trafficking (International Organization for Adolescents & Loyola University Chicago)
• Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States: 2013 – 2017 (U.S. Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, in partnership with the member agencies of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and other federal organizations, 2014)
• Guidance to States and Services on Addressing Human Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:Administration for Children, Youth and Families, 2013)
• National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) Data Breakdown:Human Trafficking and Minors:1/1/2014-12/31/2014 (NHTRC, 2015)
• Human Trafficking:A Survivor’s Perspective (Missing and Exploited Children’s Program, 2014)
• A Fact Sheet for Schools (U.S. Department of Education:Office of Elementary and Secondary Education:Office of Safe and Healthy Students, 2013)

Note: These web pages include resources from various entities outside of the CDSS.Resources are provided for the user’s convenience and inclusion on these web pages does not constitute an endorsement by the CDSS of any views expressed or services or products offered by these other entities.

• Regulations
• California Child Welfare Indicators Project
• County Offices

Survivors

• Foster Care Ombudsman Office know your rights
• CA Coalition for Youth - homeless & runaway youth hotline, services

Counties

• County CSEC Opt-In Program (Senate Bill 855)
• County Welfare Directors Association (CWDA)
• County Probation Officers Committee (CPOC)
• CSEC Training
• Extranet

Other CDSS Efforts

• CDSS Refugee Program
• Indian Child Welfare Act Workgroup
• Community Care Reform (CCR)