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Statewide Minnesota Human Trafficking Task Force Quarterly Meeting – April 2017
April 24, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
This meeting will be held in the Amherst H. Wilder Room (i.e. auditorium A).
Agenda
- 9:00 am – 9:30 am – Registration and Networking
- 9:30 am – 9:40 am – Welcome
- Amy Kenzie, MDH Sexual Violence Program Director and Coordinator, MNHTTF
- Beatriz Menanteau, MDH Injury and Violence Prevention Section, Prevention Programs Supervisor
- 9:40 am – 10:30 am – Presentation: Workplace Perspectives on Erotic Dancing: A Brief Report on Community-Based Research with Entertainers in Minneapolis Strip Clubs
- Dr. Lauren Martin, Director of Research
- Christina Melander, Research Fellow, University of Minnesota, Urban Research and Outreach Center (UROC) http://uroc.umn.edu/ http://uroc.umn.edu/stripclubsCenter
- Workplace Perspectives on Erotic Dancing: A Brief Report on Community-Based Research with Entertainers in Minneapolis Strip Clubs (PDF)
- 10:30 am – 10:45 am – Presentation: Central MN Sex Trafficking Collaborative and Terebinth Refuge
- Naomi Nelson, Central MN Regional Navigator
- CeCe Terlouw, Executive Director, Terebinth Refuge www.terebinthrefuge.org
- Terebinth Refuge Presentation (PDF)
- Video: Sex Trafficking in Central Minnesota: a Community Issue
- 10:45 am – 11:00 am – Break
- 11:00 am – 11:10 am – Update: Highlights from National Association of Counties (NACo) March 2017 meeting
- Jim McDonough, Ramsey County Commissioner https://www.ramseycounty.us/your-government/leadership/board-commissioners
- 11:10 am – 11:25 am – Update: 2018 Super Bowl LII
- Terry Williams, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Women’s Foundation of Minnesota http://www.wfmn.org/
- Amanda Koonjbeharry, Admin. Manager, Hennepin County No Wrong Door Initiative http://www.hennepin.us/nowrongdoor
- 11:25 am – 11:35 am – Update: Labor Trafficking Protocol
- Madeline Lohman, Senior Researcher, Advocates for Human Rights http://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/
- 11:35 am – 11:55 am – Policy/Program Updates
- Policy Update: Safe Harbor and Safe Harbor for All
- Jeff Bauer, Vice President of Public Affairs, Family Partnership http://www.thefamilypartnership.org/
- Christine Eyal, MNHTTF Policy Committee Chair
- Policy Update: MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA)
- Caroline Palmer, Public and Legal Affairs Manager, MNCASA http://mncasa.org/
- Program Update: Safe Harbor
- Policy Update: Safe Harbor and Safe Harbor for All
- 11:55 am – 12:00 pm – Announcements and Adjourn