This project aims to strengthen the health systems' response to human trafficking in four key ways:
1. Increasing knowledge about human trafficking among health care providers;
2. Building the capacity of health care providers to deliver culturally appropriate and trauma-informed care to victims of human trafficking;
3. Increasing the identification of victims of human trafficking; and
4. Increasing services to survivors of human trafficking.
To achieve these aims four sites throughout the country will be chosen to pilot the SOAR to Health and Wellness Training. The learning objectives for the training match the project aims, these objectives are for healthcare providers to
1. Describe the scope, severity, and diversity of human trafficking in the United States;
2. Recognize the common indicators and high risk factors for human trafficking;
3. Use trauma-informed techniques when interviewing a potential victim of human trafficking; and
4. Identify and engage local, state and national service referral options for trafficking victims.
The target population is 300+ healthcare providers in 5 sites (Site selection under way).
The evaluation is an impact evaluation, measuring immediate outcomes (i.e., from pre-intervention to post-intervention, with the intervention being 2-3 hours depending on the format to be used at each site), as well as intermediate outcomes at 3-month post intervention.
The evaluation methodology will include the following key components:
1. A standard pre-test administered 2-3 weeks prior to the training program via an email survey. Since participants will be required to register ahead of time, we will have their names and email addresses prior to the training event and will contact them with information about the training and a link to complete the pre-test.
2. A post-test with retrospective pre-test at the end of the training program. Standard pre- and post-test administrations in short (e.g., 1-day) trainings often fail to accurately measure increases in knowledge because respondents' pre-test scores are naturally inflated; that is, participants often "don't know what they don't know" and their pre-test scores are often unrealistically high. During the actual training they often become aware of their gaps in knowledge and their post-test responses tend to be more tempered. As a result, the pre- and post-test instrument fails to accurately measure gains. To address this issue, some research and evaluation professionals have begun to use post-tests with retrospective pre-tests.
3. A 3-month follow-up survey with ALL participants, via email. A modified pre-/post-test instrument will be emailed to all training participants 3 months after the training to assess whether gains in knowledge and skills or shifts in attitudes have been maintained and generalized, and whether the participants have changed their practice behavior as a result of the training. All participants will be told prior to and during the workshop that we will follow-up with them after three months, and we will obtain significant locator information so we can ensure contact at the 3-month mark. This locator information will include not only work-related data (address, telephone, email, etc.), but also their secondary or private email addresses, cell phones, and names of colleagues who will "always know how to contact them".
4. A brief (20-minute maximum) 3-month phone interview with a subsample of participants. A second random subsample of participants will be selected and these individuals will be invited to participate in a follow-up phone call to get more specific qualitative data about changes in practice behaviors as a result of the training. The subsample will be 20% of the participants; based on the target of 300 provider participants this represents 60 individuals, which is around the sample size considered sufficient to achieve saturation in qualitative research.
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US Code: 22 USC 7104 Name of Law: Prevention of Trafficking Act
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