The Role of Data and Analysis in Human Trafficking Initiatives October 16, 2019 2:00PM – 3:30PM EDT
Sabrina Fernandez Program Manager International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
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Overview Theoretical Approach: The Action Research Model & Strategic Problem-Solving Role of Research Partner Applying to ECM Task Forces
Objectives This webinar Understand various approaches to ongoing will help ECM assessment of task force efforts task force sites to: Incorporate data collection and analysis early in the project timeline Use promising practices to select a research partner and outline role/responsibilities Identify data sources and strategies for collection and analysis Identify potential challenges to avoid in the evaluation process Understand the practical application of assessment results to enhance task force processes
Getting to Know You Poll Question! Poll Question! What is your role Have you had prior within your task experience working force? on DOJ/BJA grant initiatives?
Heather Perez Edmund McGarrell, Ph.D. National Training and Director, Michigan State Statistics Technical Coordinator Center School of Criminal Justice Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University (MSU) Michigan State University (MSU)
Action Research Model • Active, ongoing partnership between researchers and practitioner agencies • Use research process to help solve local problems • Data collection to identify and understand problems • Strategic analysis to develop targeted interventions • Program monitoring and feedback for refinement • Assessment of impact
Strategic Problem‐Solving Model Problem Analysis Assessment Strategy Human Trafficking & Feedback Initiative Implementation
The Value of Researcher Practitioner Partnerships • Researchers, working with their Criminal Justice & Community partners, can help: • Assess the problem • Identify evidence-based strategies • Assure implementation fidelity • Evaluate program outcomes and impacts • Taken together, these four features support sustainability of program innovations
Strategic Problem Solving & Planning Poll Question! Where are you in the process of data and analysis in your task force?
Strategic Problem Solving & Planning Sustainability
Research Partner = Added value Identification Problem of evidence- analysis based strategies Ongoing monitoring and Evaluation feedback
• Nature of the human trafficking problem in our Problem community Analysis • Who, what, where? • Often includes assessment of services (assets, gaps)
• Evidence-based practices • Evidence-informed Identification innovation of Evidence‐ • With an eye toward building the evidence-base Based of strategies for Practices addressing human trafficking
• Is our task force making progress in the Ongoing community? Proceeding as intended? Assessment & • Assess in light of our logic Feedback model • Periodic updates
• Process (formative) evaluation – have we done what we said we would do? Were we faithful to our model (“fidelity”)? Did we implement with adequate Evaluation intensity to have an impact (“dosage”)? • Outcome (summative) evaluation – have we had our intended impact?
Traditional Research Model • Researchers were outsiders in the problem- solving process • Not involved in problem identification • Observers, not participants, in program development and implementation • Involved only as independent evaluators of outcomes and impacts
Action Research Model • Active, ongoing partnership between researchers and practitioners • Use the research process to help solve local problems • Data collection to identify and understand problems • Strategic analysis to develop targeted, evidence- based interventions • Program monitoring and feedback for refinement • Assessment of impact
Evolution of Research Partnerships Boston Ceasefire Specialized Courts, Community Prosecution, Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Drug Market Initiative (DMI) Smart Policing and Intelligence-Led Policing Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Smart Suite Programs Innovations Suite Programs 10/16/2019
• Answer questions raised by the department or agency • Analyze problems in a way that is operationally relevant, pointing toward something that we can do Research • Ask key questions that move the Partner team toward data-informed Responsibilities analysis • Support the development of strategic interventions • Monitoring performance and provide feedback
• Knowledge of the criminal justice system • Ability to communicate, advise, and be present • Commitment to project success and to creative problem-solving Research • Familiarity with a broad array or Partner Skills research methodologies - qualitative and quantitative • Willingness to work with criminal justice data and non-traditional research methodologies • Ability to meet short timelines
• Lack of time for strategic planning, data collection & analysis, and reporting of results • Funding levels and timelines Obstacles to • Difficulty in measuring outcomes Collaboration directly related to criminal justice • Personnel turnover • Capacity of agencies to provide needed data
Dominique Roe-Sepowitz Director, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR), Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University (ASU)
• Southern Nevada Human Evaluation Trafficking Task Force of HT Task • CAUSE Human Trafficking Task Force (Maricopa Forces County, Arizona).
• Consider previous experiences of task force members with evaluation and research teams. • Consider the culture regarding case data and Research criminal justice materials combined with HIPAA rules with Human safeguarding victim information. Trafficking • Ask clearly what decisions Task Forces need to be made and how data can support those decisions. • Decide what data could be collected in a timely manner and what was not available.
• Determine what data is being collected. • Decide what data you need to be collected to make data- Research driven decisions. • Us the collaboration between with Human the task force members to collect the data. Trafficking • Ask about data collection Task Forces plans. • Design data collection plans to answer your questions.
• Explore the relationships between the task force members. • Explore the gaps in services (do a Research needs assessment). • Explore trends in cases (foreign Ideas with nationals, labor trafficking, violence, Human persons from a specific area). • Explore challenges Trafficking • Less than 50% missing child Task Forces forms completed for rescued children. • Arrest of victims. • Failure to prosecute traffickers
• Use old cases to generate new cases (are traffickers continuing to exploit once Research they are not arrested/convicted). Ideas with • Use cases to illustrate successes and challenges of Human the community infrastructure for human trafficking victims. Trafficking • Always conduct mortality Task Forces reviews of cases that didn’t go the way they could have/should have and plan for the future.
• Everyone collects what they need to do their work (not to evaluate or conduct action research). • Social service data and law Data enforcement data rarely match. Challenges • Are there strategic data with HT collection plans. • Realize that data share Task Forces agreements can take months/years. • Accept that some data may be aggregated for reporting.
• Identifying that missing persons reports are not being completed for children as required by law. • A trend of sex traffickers coming from a specific area (in one case, gang members from Oakland). • Identification of how victims are being sex trafficked and build this information in prevention Research and training programs (i.e. tictoc, Instagram). Outcomes • Explore how victims are being brought into the area or are they local. Work with local from Task transportation venues (bus stations, UBER, Lyft) to be aware and have a response plan if a victim is Force identified. Evaluation • Find important trends in the data to help direct the task force efforts. • Evaluate the impact of training activities (use validated pre-post surveys to make sure your impact is strong).
Q & A
For more information on human trafficking training and technical assistance, contact: IACP humantrafficking@theiacp.org 1-800-THE-IACP x336 http://www.theiacp.org/humantrafficking OVC TTAC humantrafficking@ovcttac.org 1–866–OVCTTAC www.ovcttac.gov/humantrafficking
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