Follow the Money, Find the Traffickers: Human Trafficking and the Financial Sector

Follow the Money, Find the Traffickers: Human Trafficking and the Financial Sector

held on: July 16th, 2021, 10:00 – 11:30 am EST

This free webinar one of the “Third Friday” community training events hosted by BBCAHT and STAC to inform and engage the North Florida community and beyond. We are happy to extend this invitation to friends and colleagues –  please join us!

 “Follow the money, find the traffickers” has become a maxim in the world of human trafficking. It is vital for everyone in the community, not just financial institutions and law enforcement, to understand how human traffickers use the banking system. Traffickers launder proceeds from exploited youth and adults, force victims to open accounts, force youth with clean credit histories to apply for credit cards, entwine victims their money laundering schemes, and evade financial system safeguards. Banks need to know how to identify trafficking activity and must train their public-facing staff to be able to pick up on red flags of trafficking. Social services, child welfare professionals, anti-human trafficking advocates and all those who are contact points for vulnerable populations and people who are trafficked need to know how this abuse and exploitation occur so they can protect them.

Presenters:
Marsha Crowle, Executive Vice President, Director of Corporate Compliance, Capital City Bank Group;
Robin Hassler Thompson, Executive Director, STAC;
Melissa Wright, Vice President and Private Banker, Capital City Bank.

NOTE: This is Part 1 of a two-part training series. Look for Part 2 in the coming months for more about how traffickers financially exploit trafficked youth to be presented by Marina Anderson and Theresa Kennedy, Regional Coordinators for the Florida Department of Children and Families.

Sponsors: STAC in affiliation with Big Bend Coalition Against Human Trafficking and the International Rescue Committee. Contact: STAC at stac@surviveandthriveadvocacy.org or 850-597-2080

STAC needs your support to sustain these important webinars. Will you donate today? Each gift helps to bring this vital information to the many people who are empowering survivors and preventing human trafficking. The only way we can maintain these programs and this work is with YOUR help.

Suggested donation: $20