Ep. 23 Rescuing and Recovering Sex Trafficking Victims with Dr. Kisha Roberts-Tabb

In this episode, Dr. Kisha discusses how her passion for identifying and assisting victims of sex trafficking led her to start her own non-profit and how her mother's drug addiction played a role in her life path. Dr. Roberts-Tabb has created and implemented programs, mentored young ladies, and has been instrumental in bringing awareness to the Juvenile Probation Department around gender responsive issues including, alarming rates of HIV and AIDS among African-American women and girl, LGBTQ support, and domestic human trafficking; developing and implementing mandatory trainings Identifying Domestic Trafficking Victims, Working with Domestic Sex Trafficking Victims, and Working with Court Involved Youth. As the first Human Trafficking/ Gender Responsive/LGBTQ Specialist for Cook County Juvenile Probation Department, Dr. Tabb has worked alongside Stop It, Sky Way Railroad, Center on Halsted, Not Your Shame, Children’s Advocacy Center, Chicago Police Department, Cook County Sheriff’s Office, Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, Department of Children and Family Service, Chicago Coalition on Urban Girls, Cook County Human Trafficking Taskforce, CCHT Taskforce Training Subcommittee, Cook County Multi-Disciplinary Team, Human Trafficking Housing Pilot with the Administration for Children and Families in partnership with Housing and Urban Development and FBI specifically Operation Cross Country (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) to assure that the youth service are afforded the best care and treatment possible without violating their dignity and safety while acting as a mentor and often times a mother figure. Home | Dr. Kisha Roberts- Tabb (drkisharobertstabb.com)