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APPENDIX BStage of Change: Contemplation [continued]Counselor’s Goals• Plan for follow-up support• Reinforce internal rewards and self care• Discuss coping with relapse• Discuss triggers and temptations, creating copingstrategies• Continue to help look for opportunities to developnew skills and invest in supportive communities• Recognize progress and validate strengths• Be patient and realistic• “Can you tell me the times you most feel like goingback? What do you miss the most?”• “How can you find ‘excitement’ and ‘attention’ inother ways?”• “What kinds of people are you attracted to? Why doyou think that is?”• “I’m proud of you. You’re taking big steps right now.Be proud of yourself!”Stage of Change: relapse• Returns back to the lifeWhat This Looks Like with CSEC Victims• Runs away from program• Re-establishes contact with exploiter (exploiter getsout of jail, runs into exploiter or someone from thelife on the street, seeks exploiter out to reconnect)• Returns to strip club or escort agency• Begins to see “johns” regularly• “He really loves me.”• “I’m always going to be like this.This is who I am.”• “I’m so ashamed. I don’t want to come back.”• “You don’t understand. I missed him and besides, it’sdifferent now.”• “It was too hard. I just couldn’t do it.”Counselor’s Goals• Address feelings of failure• Reassure that most people experience relapse• Revisit subsequent stages of change (hopefullypreparation or action, but sometimescontemplation)• Evaluate the triggers that resulted in relapse• Reassess motivation to leave again and barriers• Plan stronger coping strategies• “It’s ok. It’s normal to struggle with making really bigchanges. You’re still welcome here.”• “What did you feel like you needed that you weren’tgetting?”• “Perhaps we can talk about why it was so hard.”• “Are things better this time? Why do you think that?What changed?”• “I still support you and believe in you.”The Stages of Change model is viewed as a cycle, one that may be repeated, albeit not always in a linear fashion.After the “relapse” stage, the hope is that the victim you are working with will restart the cycle at the “contemplation”or “preparation” phase, and eventually will have the support and skills they need in order to stay in the”maintenance” phase. According to Kern (2008), “eventually, if you ‘maintain maintenance’ long enough, youwill reach… the stage of ‘transcendence,’ a transcendence to a new life.” ** Kern, M. (2008). Stages of change model. Retrieved from: http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/11/1/Stages-of-Change-Model/Page1.html82 | Appendix B
APPENDIX CInterventions: Models forAddressing Children’s NeedsChild WelfareFloridaFlorida’s Department of Children and Families (FDCF) recognized the growing child trafficking problemand was the first state to include human trafficking as a form of maltreatment under the child abusereporting guidelines. 1 The FDCF Protections for Child Victims for Human Trafficking Working Group(“Working Group”) trained abuse hotline staff on how to recognize potential human trafficking, andalso included human trafficking as a new maltreatment code for the purposes of the FDCF AbuseHotline. 2 This new procedure encourages hotline staff to attempt to identify potential instances of humantrafficking, and also allows the child welfare system to initiate investigations based on allegations ofhuman trafficking. 3Child protective investigators use protocols and indicators developed by the Working Group that arenow codified in Florida’s Administrative Code. 4 These protocols require investigators to hold a multidisciplinaryteam meeting including, but not limited to “a representative from Children’s Legal Services andthe Office of Refugee Services Child Trafficking Coordinator or knowledgeable victim advocate” as soon asthe investigator suspects trafficking. 5 The protocol also mandates special placement precautions to ensureyouth are not returned to a parent, relative or guardian who is complicit in the child’s exploitation. 6The FDCF developed the Human Trafficking Indicator Tool, which highlights possible indicators ofhuman trafficking and provides considerations for interview and investigating possible cases of traffickingor exploitation. 7 For example, if hotline worker suspects human trafficking, the FDCF staff can usethe Human Trafficking Information Kit to reference best practices, protection and security needs, andresources and referrals. Florida’s informational materials include services available for foreign-bornvictims of child trafficking. 8 FDCF has also been working in partnership with Kristi House, the Children’sAdvocacy Center for Miami-Dade County, to provide specialized services to youth. 9 Plans are currentlyunderway to open a CSEC shelter to implement the State’s new Safe Harbor legislation to decriminalizechild prostitution. 10IllinoisThe Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS) has also established a coordinatedresponse for victims of trafficking. In partnership with the Loyola Center for the Human Rights ofChildren and the International Organization for Adolescents (IOFA), IDCFS has developed an integratedCalifornia Child Welfare Council | 83
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