National Standards of Care for
Anti-Trafficking Service Providers

“My hope is that providers will feel supported and guided by the Standards of Care as a tool that moves us towards high-quality and consistent services for survivors.”
 

Marissa Castellanos, Technical Working Group Member

“I’ve learned so much from the other Technical Working Group members but also being able to work with OVC and HHS and working with the Freedom Network. We’re all coming together from different fields and different perspectives but we’re all with the same goal of building these Standards of Care which will ultimately mean that people who have experienced trafficking are going to be better off and that we are going to reduce the harms that sometimes happen.”

Mariah Grant, Technical Working Group Member

“Creating Standards of Care in the Anti-human trafficking field is critical because it sets a foundation that we can use to ensure that every survivor receives quality care regardless of their location or service provider. It set expectations that we are service providers can hold ourselves accountable to to ensure that we are minimizing harm to survivors. And most importantly, it can create a roadmap that we can use to ensure that the needed training and capacity building for organization and service providers is clear and consistent across the country.”

Amanda Stylianou, Technical Working Group Member

“I’m also really happy to lift up the voices from the field, folks who are doing amazing work, promising practices from communities that we do not hear from often, that we will be able to lift up what they’re doing and what’s working in their communities on a broader scale.”
 

Joy Thompson, Technical Working Group Member

“We are really committed to making sure that everybody understands what our process is. We’ve looked to the literature to identify a systematic, evidence-based approach to inform how we move forward as a Standards of Care Technical Working Group to make sure that what we’re doing is legitimate, reliable, credible, and fully transparent to all of our constituents.”
 

Stacey Cutbush Starseed, Technical Working Group Member

“Our dream is to see that a survivor anywhere in the United States would be able to access the same high quality of services that can comprehensively meet all of their needs that they can access anywhere across the states.”
 
 

Sarah Lott, Technical Working Group Member

“The Standards of Care is an important marker in the anti-trafficking field: we are recognizing the work that has already been done, highlighting what we have learned, and challenging ourselves to continue to raise the bar.”
 
 

Marissa Castellanos, Technical Working Group Member