In our 10th podcast series, “Intersections in Health Care and Human Trafficking”, NAPNAP uses a multidisciplinary lens to explore the impact of human trafficking on children and adolescents. Human trafficking is a complex and pervasive issue which is best addressed by tapping into the skills and expertise across many disciplines and people. Forensics, police, legal, social work, research, and survivors of human trafficking all have a place in addressing human trafficking.

Our host for this series is Jason Spees, MSN, MaOM, APRN, L.Ac., FNP-C, Dipl. Ac. & C.H. Jason is a human trafficking educator and the chair of NAPNAP Partners Alliance for Children in Trafficking (ACT).

This week’s episode will discuss the social work practice with human trafficking survivors with our guests Haley Patterson and Heather Moga. Haley has been serving as the U.S. director for Red Oak Hope for four years. She graduated from University of Texas with a degree in speech language pathology and has a passion for helping the women we serve grow in strength and ability in relating to themselves as well as the world around them. Heather is the director of program development of U.S. programs at Red Oak Hope, a nonprofit organization that aims to provide freedom, hope and restoration to survivors of sexual exploitation.