251: How to Build an Anti-Human Trafficking Policy for Your Faith-Based Organization

Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak discuss policy and its significant role for faith-based organizations in combatting human trafficking. Dr. Morgan explains how policies maintain the expectations of staff and volunteers and protect the mission of the organization.
Key Notes

Dr. Sandie Morgan is writing a book, in collaboration with fellow authors and activists Kim Yim and Shayne Moore, on anti-human trafficking for church leaders that's coming out Winter 21-22.
The 3P Paradigm has been expanded to 5 Ps: Prevention, Protection, Prosecution, Partnership, and Policy.
Policies are designed to serve leaders, staff, and the volunteers of an organization.
Organizational policies serve three goals:

Policies create process and develop patterns of ethical best practice.


Policies operationalize your value for human dignity.
Policies build in accountability.



Resources

Enhanced Collaborative Model: The 5 Ps - GCWJ
EHT Ep. 250 - How to Work with Law Enforcement, with Dr. Stephany Powell
Live2free - Student Mobilization Group
EHT Ep. 226 - Media Ethics: Where Do You Draw the Line?
EHT Ep. 233 - Bella Hounakey: A Fierce Survivor Advocate
Ensure Justice 2022 Conference - March 4-5, 2022

Transcript
Dave Stachowiak [00:00:00] You're listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 251, How to Build an Anti-Human Trafficking Policy for your Faith-Based Organization.

Production Credits [00:00:12] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave Stachowiak [00:00:33] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie Morgan [00:00:38] My name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave Stachowiak [00:00:41] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, believe it or not, we have been going over 10 years now on the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. What a privilege it has been to work with you and share the microphone with you this whole time. I have learned so much and there's so much more to learn. And in fact, you're writing a book, aren't you?

Sandie Morgan [00:01:08] I am. My friends and I decided we needed to put together a handbook for Christian leaders on ending human trafficking. And they convinced me that between the three of us, we could get it done. Because you know me, I've got six things going on at the Global Center for Women and Justice, and so I thought: 'when I retire, I'll write a book.' But, we did it by collaboration--and you know how much I love collaboration. And it is now at the publisher--the manuscript--and they've shown us cover samples, and it's really going to happen.

Dave Stachowiak [00:01:51] Wow. Cool. Well, today is going to be the first of probably a number of conversations that we're going to have in the future on this topic. And of course, as you'd expect, the topic is going to be on ending human trafficking in a faith-based organization. And so today, maybe a bit of an introduction to this so that we can really support those who are in our listening community of beginning to think about this from a faith-based standpoint. And Sandie, as we talk about so often, with the importance of partnership in so many venues, law enforcement, like we talked about last time; government, as we often talk about on the show, having government leaders on; and of course, the faith-based community is such an important partner in the work we're doing, aren't they?

Sandie Morgan [00:02:37] Absolutely. Absolutely. And over the years, I love thinking about this, this is our our 10th anniversary. We need to have a party. Wait, I have to get my last vaccine first and then we can have a party. So we started out with just three P's: Prevention, Protection, and Prosecution. Right. And then we added Partnership, and then we added Policy. And I want to talk about policy today with regard to our faith-based partners.