This committee is charged with reviewing strategies to collect statewide data to enable policymakers and law enforcement to assess progress in their efforts to tackle this growing problem.
This committee is charged with identifying and applying for potential grants and other forms of funding.
This committee is charged with reviewing Michigan’s human trafficking laws and policies to determine whether new legislation or policy changes are required.
This committee is charged with developing strategies to raise public awareness of human trafficking.
This committee is charged with reviewing existing training efforts for professionals and determining how those efforts can be enhanced and expanded. These professionals include various groups who may encounter human trafficking such as: law enforcement, health care providers, social-service providers, hospitality providers, and those in code enforcement and regulatory agencies.
This committee is charged with reviewing the needs of human trafficking survivors to determine how those needs can be met at the local and state levels.
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Visit the Commission's Human Trafficking Awareness Materials
This committee is charged with developing strategies to raise public awareness of human trafficking.
Throughout 2022, the committee focused on updating and rebranding the access and searchability of Public Awareness for Human Trafficking. The focus was updating the website to make resources more obtainable and user friendly.
This year saw the launch of the newly designed and independent Michigan Human Trafficking Commission Website. Previously, the Commission’s online presence was only accessible via the website of the Attorney General – the Commission’s host department. With the redesign, however, the Commission launched its independent home online. This new resource will provide updates on our efforts to combat human trafficking here in Michigan and showcase information like public awareness resources and training on human trafficking, as well as other Commission resources.
In addition, the committee’s focus during the year was continuing the regular delivery of quality and topical Human Trafficking Public Awareness material. Utilizing the “updates” section of the website, information on human trafficking is available to interested parties upon viewing on the website directly or via subscription delivered via email or other social media platforms. These updates now include information about the Commission as well as general information on human trafficking, such as articles on the issue, information about changes in state and federal laws on trafficking, reports on work on human trafficking issues from across the state and other pertinent information.
Equipped with the previously developed guidelines for providing human trafficking resources, the committee continued the work of identifying, evaluating, and recommending for distribution “updates” that comprise a library full of helpful human trafficking resources. The updates, delivered bi-weekly via email to over eight hundred subscribers, are also available on the webpage. The committee reviewed and recommended the following for distribution as public awareness updates:
From the White House:
From Polaris Project:
From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign
From the Michigan Abolitionist Project (MAP) “Say This Not That,” a glossary reviewing terminology used (and misused) regarding human trafficking.
From the University of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Law and the University of San Diego School of Law, available at SupportHTSurvivors.org, “Working with HT Survivors: LGBTQ+ Communities.”
The committee continues to identify, evaluate and recommend helpful resources to keep the public informed about human trafficking.