Emancipation Nation

Send a text Looking for a trauma treatment therapist? Know why it's important to find a knowledgeable and trained trauma treatment therapist with lived experience? Listen to Katie discuss the first survivor led organization addressing  comprehensive services for human trafficking survivors in Michigan including trauma treatment therapy.

Send a text Listen to what Youth Underground does as they work with youth to prevent human trafficking. They put into practice the nine most effective elements of evidence-based prevention practice.  I go over the nine elements that you can use to develop your best practice prevention program. 

Send a text How do you become an FBI agent? What do FBI agents do? What does a Victim-Witness Specialist do? What types of law enforcement approaches work and don't work?  Learn this and more from a veteran agent that worked on human trafficking cases.  Also, become a consultant for his new book!

Send a text Connection to culture, understanding historical trauma, and removing shame associated with victimization are some of the key elements that should be considered and included when we work with indigenous populations. Learn more about indigenous populations in the U.S. and the trauma they have experienced.

Send a text How much do our unconscious biases unintentionally hurt the people and the movement we claim to want to help? We all have a level of unconscious bias. Let's take the shame out of it, acknowledge it,  own it, and work on a daily basis to change it.

Send a text In this episode we dive deeper into learning more about male victims of sex trafficking with trauma informed researcher Ena Lucia Mariaca Pacheco, who interviewed 40 male survivors of child sexual abuse, including 12 trafficking survivors, 10 of which were trafficked by family members. Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this episode are those of the researcher. They do not reflect t...

Send a text Alternative therapies such as mind-body work has been viewed by some as critical to survivor healing. Learn more about Trauma-Informed Yoga including what it is, how it works, and why it is helpful.

Send a text Dr. Heather Evans wrote two books on trauma and human trafficking survivors. Too often advocates understand the word "trauma" but don't know how to help survivors heal. We say we are "walking along side" survivors, but do not know where we're going in our healing journey. Learn the importance of being trauma-informed and know the difference between trauma-...

Send a text A multi-pronged approach to serving victims of human trafficking without a parallel multi-strategic response to traffickers makes little sense. We can't solve the problem by largely attending to only one side of the equation. Our current strategy of "putting the bad guys in jail" is a limited strategy. But what do we know about traffickers? What can we do that involves m...

Send a text What happens behind closed doors? Who is involved? Why are they allowed to operate? Learn about illicit massage parlors as a front for sex trafficking and the structural, political, and cultural contexts behind their operation and how to disrupt it.

Send a text Educating teachers, other school personnel, and students about human trafficking is only the beginning.  Using a variety of teaching methods including peer-to-peer education also gets kids involved in the fight. However, increasing awareness alone is not enough. Building a comprehensive continuum of care that addresses the risk factors and supports youth that are at risk or trafficked...

Send a text Walter Lovett describes his life transformation from the depths and despair of a porn addiction to becoming a successful, creative, and talented comic book writer that works to educate and increase human trafficking awareness among those early teens and late twenties comic book fans and aficionados. 

Send a text A retired Sergeant with decades of experience talks about human trafficking from her years of experience in LAPD Vice. Dr. Powell focuses on the delicate dance between being a woman engaging victimized women and being an officer of color that is confronted with the issue of systemic racism and police-community relations. 

Send a text Our laws are black and white, but the issue is complicated. It involves trafficking victims, victim turned perpetrator, and sex workers. Learn more about the nuances of the sex trade so you can become a part of the solution. Start by participating in an important study. Here is the link: tinyurl.com/ComplexRightsAndWrongs

Send a text Dr. Rosario Sanchez discusses her research with survivors of human trafficking, including their needs and the individual and interpersonal barriers they face leaving their trafficking situation and how professionals can play an important role.

Send a text Listen to this episode about carrying your message forward by sharing your life testimony with others who need to hear it. When you are genuine and authentic you give other people permission to also be genuine and authentic.

Send a text Why keep all of that wonderful knowledge you have to yourself? Share it with the world. If you haven't presented much in the past, listen and learn the tips and secrets to submitting a good abstract and consider submitting an abstract to present at our 19th annual International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference.  Not interested? Listen anyway and pick of tips for sub...

Send a text The 11th Journey to trauma-focused healing helps survivors to unburden themselves of the energy of hatred that leads to poor emotional and and physical health. 

Send a text Thomas Estler developed the comic book series "Abolitionista!" to help kids understand the issue of human trafficking in a age appropriate way.  You can get access to the comic book series for free!

Send a text Self-forgiveness is one of the  most important journeys for survivors to process through. Learn more about the practice of self forgiveness along this trauma-focused survivors journey to healing and recovery.

Send a text AEquitas provides technical assistance to prosecutors. They educate, sensitize, and equip prosecutors to effectively prosecute cases, including cases of human trafficking.  They will provide this assistance across any state and most countries. If you know of a case being prosecuted in your community, let the prosecutor know that they can reach out and get the support and technical assi...

Send a text There are spoken and unspoken beliefs, obligations, and loyalties you honor that keep you from living your full flavored life and achieving both joy and your higher purpose. In the 9th Journey we reveal some of these beliefs, obligations, and loyalties and ask if you will continue to choose to honor them or if  you will adopt ones that most benefit you. 

Send a text In this solo episode we return to discuss the Survivors Journey. This week we provide an overview of the 8th Journey, which is all about establishing and maintaining healthy relationships. Taking care of yourself is not selfish. It's self-care.

Send a text What? There is a national collaboration of those offering housing to trafficking survivors? And there are essential standards of care that we should all be providing? Learn about this amazing collaborative service, how to get involved, how to refer a client,  and the continued gaps in services that need to be filled.

Send a text Ever heard the saying "You are who you hang around?" Toxic people drain your physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual energy. Meaningful self-care in 2022 means learning how to reveal the toxic and nurturing people in your life. Want to increase your happiness and productivity? Go into the new year identifying, exposing, and distancing yourself from toxic others and s...