PACT Publications
Check out some original content developed by the PACT staff team and consultants!
Child Trafficking Indicator Chart
Preventing & Addressing Child Trafficking (PACT) developed the Child Trafficking Indicator Chart, informed by a review of existing tools and input from community providers and leaders with lived expertise. The chart highlights commonly observed signs and potential overlaps where intersectional experiences of trafficking may co-occur. The chart supports providers in identifying and resourcing child who at risk of, or experiencing trafficking.
Children and young people may experience one or both forms of trafficking, including sex trafficking—also known as commercial sexual exploitation (CSE)—and labor trafficking, which can occur in both formal and informal settings or involve forced criminality.
Preventing & Addressing Child Trafficking (PACT) developed the Child Labor Trafficking Quick Screening Guide adapted from a tool created by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. This guide highlights commonly observed signs and potential indicators of labor trafficking. Designed as an add-on to existing CSE screening processes, it helps fill gaps where fully integrated screening tools are limited. When possible, CFPIC PACT encourages the use of a fully integrated tool that screens for both CSE and child labor trafficking, given the frequent intersections between the two.
Early identification is key to establishing a local response and connecting children and families to support. Recognizing potential indicators can support timely intervention and identification efforts, especially when combined with screening tools and comprehensive needs assessments. Identifying concerns early creates more opportunities for intervention and reduces the risk of further harm.
GO BAG - Emergency Backpack List & Safety Planning Tool
A Go Bag is a backpack filled with essential items for youth who may be in crisis or transition. Go Bags are especially useful when a young person is recovered from a trafficking situation, is leaving placement, or may find themselves in an unsafe or high-risk situation.
Go Bags are a key harm reduction strategy, helping to meet youth where they are by ensuring they have access to basic needs, comfort items, and safety resources. While a Go Bag cannot prevent a crisis, it can support a youth’s dignity, safety, and wellbeing, and help reduce risk during difficult times. Check out our PACT Developed list developed as a resource for your county program or agency to create your own Go Bags. Includes a Safety Planning Tool and Packing List!
"Child Trafficking Knows No Bounds" is a narrative written by anti-trafficking leader and advocate, Jess Torres with an accompanying interview moderated by Melissa Gomez, PACT Project Director. The article outlines Jess' personal experience as a childhood survivor of trafficking, describing the interwoven intersections of both sex and labor trafficking, offering promising guidance for current child serving professionals. It also includes quotes from Jimmy Lopez, who fled gangs from Honduras at 14 years, and then entered the US, and experienced forced labor and criminality in multiple settings, prior to receiving critical support. Jimmy is now an advocate and recognized leader in the anti-trafficking field.
CFPIC’s Youth Engagement Project (YEP) and the Preventing and Addressing Child Trafficking (PACT) project centers the voice of lived expertise as we seek system transformation in child welfare, probation and other systems; and ally with lived experts to meaningfully drive change; improving supports to children, young people and families across CA.
This document highlights the lessons we’ve learned that may be helpful to other systems partners and allies.
PACT Human Trafficking Youth Curriculum Prevention Guide
Learn more about agencies and curriculums utilized across CA that support prevention of child sex and labor trafficking through a variety of virtual, on-demand and in person training. The curriculums target a wide range of ages and audiences.
Profiles are grouped by focus: Primary Prevention, Secondary & Tertiary Prevention approaches. Learn more about a public health approach to end trafficking by reading the National Human Trafficking Prevention Framework.
PACT Consultant Network - Reccommended Lived Expertise Rates, Ethical Compensation Guide for Sub-Contracting
Lived experts of human trafficking who provide professional consulting, direct advocacy services and training should be compensated farily and equitablly. Learn more about guidelines that Preventing and Addressing Child Trafficking developed, to ensure fair and equitable pay throughout our Consultant Network as well as survivor developed strategies when sub-contracting with survivors to support to your local community or program.
Boys Are Trafficked Too - Factors of Resilience for Male Survivors of Exploitation
Boys and men are also victims of commercial exploitation, sex and labor trafficking and suffer from lasting impacts of trauma. Yet they are often underepresented in data and not identified for supportive services. Learn about seven common myths and Russell G. Wilson (PACT Consultant and Researcher) Heirarchy of CSEC Survival.
This article, written by PACT Consultant Aja Houle shares about her personal experience as a young person recruited into sex trafficking during her time in Juvenile Hall. She provides practice guidance on how to best support teens experiencing CSE, by meeting them "where they are at," relationship building and supporting positive outcomes.
The Child Welfare Response to Labor Trafficking in California: A Ten-County Case Study on Integrating a Response to Child Labor Trafficking research brief is a resource for child welfare agencies, advocates, and policymakers who are working to strengthen support for victims of all forms of child trafficking. The brief highlights data, research and promising practices in establishing an integrated response to child labor and/or sex trafficking through research and lessons learned during implementation of the PACT 10-county pilot project.
The Child Labor Trafficking Mini-Desk Guide is a resource for child welfare workers, probation officers, and their multidisciplinary partners. It serves as an educational and awareness tool to increase basic understanding of child labor trafficking and the available resources to support those at risk of, or experiencing labor trafficking.