The Mayor’s Office Survivors of Human Exploitation Working Group has partnered with Safe Horizon to develop a free, anti-human trafficking introductory training tool specifically for medical and mental health professionals.  The tool, Recognizing Human Trafficking: Guidelines for Health Care Providers, is designed to introduce medical professionals to ways they can recognize, identify and respond to potential victims of human trafficking they might encounter in their day-to-day practices.  The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation will join the partnership to disseminate the tool to its 11 hospital emergency department teams throughout New York City. Recognizing Human Trafficking: Guidelines for Health Care Providers is available on the Mayor’s Office anti-human trafficking website and can be downloaded by any medical professionals.  To make best use of the tool, medical professionals are recommended to have human trafficking service providers or experts tailor the training to the needs of their staff. 

Mayor’s Office Survivors of Human Exploitation Working Group members include:

Norma Abbene, Citywide director of the Mayor’s Office Survivors of Human Exploitation Working Group
Jayne Bigelsen
Diana Brummer
Kevin Curnin
John Feinblatt
Loren Wissner Greene, MD
Norman Greene
Ruchira Gupta
Allen Keller, MD
Michael Korzinski, PhD
Peggy McHugh, MD
Commissioner Ronald Richther
Deputy Mayor Carol Robles-Román 
Kevin Ryan
Hawthorne Smith, PhD
Diana Taylor
Suzanne Tomatore
Ariel Zwang

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Patrick Bryant, Of Counsel to the Working Group