Unveiling child sex trafficking in indigenous communities

This episode will give caregivers of indigenous youth a new understanding of how to help indigenous youth in care who've experienced abuse and/or commercial sexual exploitation and how to support them. 

Indigenous youth in care are a vulnerable population, we will discuss ways to protect indigenous youth from CSEC and the resources available to these youth in care.

Guest on the show:

Raechel Ibarra, Senior CSEC Case Manager for Children’s Law Center, Chiricahua Apache descendant and her ancestors originate from Arizona and the border of Mexico.  

Resources:

-The proportions of Black and Native American youth in foster care are around four times larger than the proportions of Black and Native American youth in California overall. 

-Native & Indigenous youth are overrepresented in the CA child welfare system. They make up .8% of the general population, yet 20.7% of youth in care.

Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's movement)

Calls To Action:
How trafficking starts (24:10)
Common language used (26:03)
How to explain trafficking to your youth (27:03)

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