How to identify trafficking victims, and more: a health care worker’s guide

General information

• The Polaris Project has many resources, including the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline and text service.

Handbooks for health care workers

• International Organization for Migration has a free PDF handbook for health care providers called “Caring for Trafficked Persons.”

• Massachusetts Medical Society also has a guide on identifying and treating trafficking victims. 

• The Department of Health and Human Services also has reference materials and a toolkit for health care workers.

Other resources

• The National Human Trafficking Resource Center has a webinar for health workers.

• Heal Trafficking has a compendium of medical literature and educational programs.

Marketplace’s three-part series on human trafficking and health care:

Part 1: Health care takes on the fight against trafficking

Part 2: This is what happened when a trafficking victim finally got a chance to run 

Part 3: Identifying trafficking victims is just the start of health care’s challenge