Safe Harbor Resources

Safe Harbor Law and Policy
Community-Based Services White Paper

(2022) This white paper discusses the importance of providing comprehensive, trauma-informed services to all child sex trafficking victims, regardless of system-involvement.
TRAUMA, COERCION, AND THE TOOLS OF TRAFFICKING
EXPLOITATION: EXAMINING THE CONSEQUENCES FOR CHILDREN
AND YOUTH IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

(2021) Kentucky Law Journal Article
Protective Response Model

(2016) A protective response model to juvenile sex trafficking encompasses state and federal statutes, system protocol and implementation, access to available service and community resources, and outcome measurements.
JuST Response Policy Paper: Non-Criminalization of Juvenile Sex Trafficking Victims

(2016) Discussing the social and legal importance of ending criminalization of minors for prostitution offenses.

ISSUE BRIEF 2.5

State law prohibits the criminalization of minors under 18 for prostitution offenses and establishes a services-referral protocol as an alternative to arrest.

ISSUE BRIEF 2.6

State law prohibits the criminalization of child sex trafficking victims for status offenses, and misdemeanor and non-violent felony offenses committed as a result of their trafficking victimization.

ISSUE BRIEF 2.7

State law prohibits the criminalization of child sex trafficking victims for sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation offenses, including accomplice and co-conspirator liability, committed as a result of their trafficking victimization.

ISSUE BRIEF 2.8

State law provides child sex trafficking victims with an affirmative defense to violent felonies committed as a result of their trafficking victimization.

ISSUE BRIEF 3.1

State law mandates a process for coordinating access to specialized services for child sex trafficking victims that does not require involvement in child-serving systems.

ISSUE BRIEF 3.2

State law provides for a survivor-centered multi-disciplinary team response to child sex trafficking cases.

ISSUE BRIEF 3.3

State law requires child welfare to provide access to specialized services for identified sex trafficked children and youth.

Safe Harbor Implementation
JuST Response Council: Protective Response Model (2016)
JuST Response Council Field Guidance: Justice for Juveniles (2016)
Shared Hope VOI report webpage
JuST Response State System Mapping Report (2015)
Traffic Stop: National Colloquium (2013)
National Colloquium Report (2012)