111 – Collaborating Against Human Trafficking

This episode is brought to you by Vanguard University and the Global Center for Women and Justice, who offer an incredible anti-human trafficking certificate. Whether you're a frontline responder, a social worker, in the ministry, a healthcare provider, or simply a community member who wants to help, this program is built for you. Head over to gcwj.org/ahtc to take the next step and apply today. ---During this episode, Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak interview special guest Kirsten Foot. Kirsten Foot serves on the Board on Editorial Board on Human Trafficking and acts as Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. On this episode, Kirsten discusses aspects of her new book Collaborating Against Human Trafficking: Cross-Sector Challenges and Practices . Foot realized in the early 2000s the lack of collaboration among task forces and related groups fighting against human trafficking. In researching this topic further, Foot looked into the daily operations of task forces, talked to many leaders of task forces, and attended hundreds of meetings. Essentially all groups stated a desire for collaboration and alliances. Yet Foot was able to discover that such collaboration was not taking place. Instead, what was taking place was the creation of new task forces left and right. Groups were not working together. Instead they were acting too independently and believed they themselves could do a better job at bringing people together than others. With this knowledge that groups were not collaborating with each other to combat the perils of human trafficking, Foot went about tackling the question, why is collaboration so tough? How can the act of collaboration be made more practical to leaders? How can the message be conveyed that collaboration allows for better understanding of the issues at hand? All this and more on today’s podcast. Please take a moment to rate the Podcast on ITunes! Resources: Kristin Foot’ Book Dr. Sandra Morgan’s new blog Global Center for Women and Justice Like us on Facebook! If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to subscribe or rate the podcast on iTunes by clicking here. Click here for FAQs about podcasts and how to subscribe. Haven’t been receiving our newsletter? Visit our homepage to join today. Contact us with questions, comments, or suggestions by contacting us through our homepage.