On Monday, January 24, 2022, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted the Deterring Human Trafficking forum.

• Ashleigh Chapman, CEO and president of the Alliance for Freedom, Restoration, and Justice, moderated a conversation with Dr. Hanna Stoklosa, CEO of HEAL Trafficking (Health, Education, Advocacy, Linkage), and health care industry stakeholders to discuss human trafficking victim identification and response.
• A21, kNot Today, and It’s a Penalty, which are members of the Alliance Against Human Trafficking & Exploitation, and the American Hotel & Lodging Association highlighted their partnerships with professional sports leagues to inform spectators on how to prevent sexual exploitation.

Glenn Spencer, senior vice president of the Employment Policy Division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, kicked off the Deterring Human Trafficking event to commemorate National Human Trafficking Awareness month. He stressed that businesses play a critical role in developing upstream and downstream measures to combat this heinous crime. Upstream measures focus on prevention, while downstream interventions emphasize the importance of remedying the offense once it has occurred.

Ashleigh Chapman, president of the Alliance for Freedom, Restoration, and Justice (AFRJ), moderated a conversation with Dr. Hanni Stoklosa, co-founder of HEAL Trafficking, and Abigail Boldin, Ombudsman liaison at Amerigroup, on how the health care sector aids in victim identification and response.

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