Shining Light on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Toolkit to Build Understanding

Description of Resource: Shining Light on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Toolkit to Build Understanding provides information on human trafficking with a specific focus on mentoring for commercial sexual exploitation survivors. The toolkit offers information about emerging research and recommended practices along with implications for mentoring practice at the individual, program, and community levels to best support this population.

Goals: To provide information and resources to programs serving youth affected by commercial exploitation that will ultimately help improve collective response to human trafficking across the country.

Target Population/Eligibility or Target Sites: Mentoring programs

Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice: All

Key Personnel: N /A

Additional Information: This project was supported by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Publisher/Source: Youth Collaboratory Authors: Wichita State University Center for Combating Human Trafficking & Youth Collaboratory

Date of Publication: 2018-2019*

*(There are 19 different modules published between the years of 2018-2019).

Resource Type: Program Management Resources

Evaluation Methodology: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

Evaluation Outcomes: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

External Validity: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness

This resource can be accessed freely online: https://www.youthcollaboratory.org/toolkit/shining-light-commercial-sexual-exploitation-children-toolkit-build-understanding

Evidence Base: N/A

Additional References: N/A