CSEY Data Advocacy: Reducing Harm through Data - CSEY Survivors

This presentation will focus on the crucial overlap of time management and protection for survivors during data collection. Time management is an essential part of any successful organization, especially when working with vulnerable populations, such as survivors of human trafficking, and facing tight schedules and budgets. It is time- consuming to read through blocks of narratives to find necessary details on survivors, but more importantly, survivors can be harmed by being forced to relive their trauma during data collection. On the other hand, narratives written by advocates can harm survivors if subpoenaed. Documentation data systems that gather quantitative information and tell the story through data can be used to reduce harm to survivors of human trafficking. Data can be used to track survivors’ engagement, connections, needs, and feelings of safety; and to determine efficiency of implementation of intervention strategies. This presentation offers an organizational example of a documentation data system for providing care and protecting survivors of human trafficking.