Responding to Human Trafficking in the Title X Context Toolkit
Welcome to the Toolkit
Human trafficking is a federal crime that affects communities throughout the United States and exploits individuals of all backgrounds. Title X grantees must ensure that all staff are able to identify and report human trafficking, provide appropriate services, and make appropriate referrals to improve the client’s safety and situation. This toolkit provides information, tools, and training to support projects in those efforts.
This toolkit will guide your agency in developing a client-centered response to human trafficking cases. Use the resources in this toolkit in any order according to your agency’s needs and priorities.
Responding to human trafficking can be complex. Your agency can create the foundation for a thoughtful, systematic response by developing policies for human trafficking screening, referrals, and reporting that are client-centered and aligned with state requirements.
Review the ways in which your agency supports clients affected by sexual, physical, or intimate partner violence
Develop or update your agency’s Title X program-compliant policy for human trafficking screening and referrals
Survivors of human trafficking interact with providers in a range of health care settings—including primary care and family planning clinics—but report that their situation is often missed or ignored. With training, your agency staff can learn how to spot indicators of human trafficking and provide victims and survivors of human trafficking with compassionate, informed support.
Develop or update your agency’s staff training on state-specific mandatory reporting laws and deliver the training annually to staff, as required by Title X regulations
Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting in Title X-Funded Family Planning Settings: Instructions for Customizing and Delivering a State-Specific Training
Train clinical services providers or billing staff on coding for human trafficking related services
Human Trafficking ICD-10-CM Codes
Human trafficking victims and survivors may need a range of immediate support, including food, housing, health care, mental health treatment, and substance use disorder treatment. By becoming familiar with state and national resources, understanding the referral options in your community, and establishing local organizational relationships, your agency will enhance its capacity to respond to cases of human trafficking.
Consult the National Human Trafficking Hotline’s Referral Directory to identify local, state, and national, state organizations and resources for victims and survivors
Review and update your agency’s referral lists and agreements to ensure they include local organizations that respond to and support victims and survivors of human trafficking
Local Resource List
Make National Human Trafficking Hotline contact information available to clients throughout your agency’s service sites (e.g., through posters or handouts)
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