Work Groups

The Georgia Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force has 9 Work Groups:

  1. Community Awareness and Education
  2. Youth Aware And Safe
  3. Deterring Traffickers And Buyers
  4. Keeping At-Risk Youth Safe
  5. Apprehending, Investigating, And Prosecuting
  6. Foreign-Born and Labor Trafficking
  7. Survivors Supported And Protected
  8. Survivors Recovering And Thriving
  9. Examining Domestic Adult Sex Trafficking

Each of these Work Groups falls under one of the five elements of the trafficking continuum: Vulnerability-Recruitment-Exploitation-Withdrawal-Reintegration. As a result, Work Groups work to conceptualize, develop, and implement projects to address identified gaps in education and services relating to human trafficking in Georgia with the goal of making a lasting impact on combating this issue. One of the clear innovations of this framework is the way it structures the work so that numerous projects will be proceeding concurrently to ensure that multiple aspects of the human trafficking issue are being addressed simultaneously – resulting in a “Collective Impact”. This approach allows the Task Force to address needs that either are not being addressed by established programs in the service system or are not being addressed to the needed level of frequency, intensity, or duration.