Subcommittee participation is open to the community.
Training Subcommittee
The Training Subcommittee aims to strengthen task force capacity for human trafficking training across Cook County and the Northern District. Steering committee and subcommittee members can become a task force trainer by attending a task force train-the-trainer event.
Community members and community-based organizations interested in learning more about human trafficking can request a training here.
Victim Services Subcommittee
The Victim Services Subcommittee aims to enhance the capacity of professionals and key task force stakeholders to respond to the multiple needs of victims of trafficking across Cook County and the Northern District. Current activities include creating streamlined housing pathways for victims and recruiting members to a coordinated service referral network.
Labor Trafficking Subcommittee
The Labor Trafficking Subcommittee aims to strengthen task force capacity to identify and serve labor trafficking victims across Cook County and the Northern District. Initial goals include developing collaborative relationships with worker's rights organizations, law enforcement and federal agencies, implementing methods for effective identification of labor trafficking victims, and ensuring immediate services and trauma informed responses to labor trafficking victims.
LGBTQ Subcommittee
The LGBTQ Subcommittee aims to enhance task force capacity to identify and provide appropriate services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer victims of human trafficking. Current goals include LGBTQ sensitivity trainings and HT trainings for LGBTQ service providers.
Healthcare Subcommittee
The Healthcare Subcommittee aims to better identify and serve survivors of human trafficking (sex and labor) in all healthcare settings (hospitals, urgent care centers, outpatient clinics, federally qualified health centers, etc) through training, protocol development, advocacy, technical assistance, the sharing of best practices and referral mechanisms to service providers of the task force.
Training Subcommittee
The Training Subcommittee aims to strengthen task force capacity for human trafficking training across Cook County and the Northern District. Steering committee and subcommittee members can become a task force trainer by attending a task force train-the-trainer event.
Community members and community-based organizations interested in learning more about human trafficking can request a training here.
Victim Services Subcommittee
The Victim Services Subcommittee aims to enhance the capacity of professionals and key task force stakeholders to respond to the multiple needs of victims of trafficking across Cook County and the Northern District. Current activities include creating streamlined housing pathways for victims and recruiting members to a coordinated service referral network.
Labor Trafficking Subcommittee
The Labor Trafficking Subcommittee aims to strengthen task force capacity to identify and serve labor trafficking victims across Cook County and the Northern District. Initial goals include developing collaborative relationships with worker's rights organizations, law enforcement and federal agencies, implementing methods for effective identification of labor trafficking victims, and ensuring immediate services and trauma informed responses to labor trafficking victims.
LGBTQ Subcommittee
The LGBTQ Subcommittee aims to enhance task force capacity to identify and provide appropriate services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer victims of human trafficking. Current goals include LGBTQ sensitivity trainings and HT trainings for LGBTQ service providers.
Healthcare Subcommittee
The Healthcare Subcommittee aims to better identify and serve survivors of human trafficking (sex and labor) in all healthcare settings (hospitals, urgent care centers, outpatient clinics, federally qualified health centers, etc) through training, protocol development, advocacy, technical assistance, the sharing of best practices and referral mechanisms to service providers of the task force.