title: Who is in Your Waiting Room? Health Care Professionals as Culturally Responsive and Trauma-Informed First Responders to Human Trafficking.
abstract: Evidence-based practice standards are not yet well defined for assisting potential victims of human trafficking. Nonetheless, health care professionals are learning to be first responders in identifying, treating, and referring potential victims. As more public and private sector resources are used to train health care professionals about human trafficking, more evaluation and research are needed to develop an effective standard of care. Adopting a public health lens and using the "National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care" can guide critical decision making and actions. Through collaboration between researchers and policymakers, lessons learned in health care settings can inform future evidence-based standards of care so that all patients receive the services that they need.
authors.affiliation: Public health analyst in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Rockville, Maryland.
authors.forename: Rochelle
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rollins
authors.affiliation: ORISE Fellow at the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Rockville, Maryland, and a public health social worker.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gribble
authors.affiliation: Founder and principal consultant at SEB and Associates in Columbia, Maryland, and an adjunct professor in the University of Maryland Public Health Services Program and at Morgan State University's School of Community Health and Policy.
authors.forename: Sharon E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Barrett
authors.affiliation: Director of the Division of Health Care Quality within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health at the US Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC, and an adjunct associate professor of pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Clydette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Powell
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D019548:Crime Victims; D054521:Cultural Competency; D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006296:Health Services; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D064410:Human Trafficking; D006801:Humans; D000067073:Psychological Trauma; D011634:Public Health; D059039:Standard of Care