Laura Lederer to present research at Human Trafficking National Summit September 11-13, 2105

Aug. 6, 2015 - PRLog -- Chosen Advocates Associates (CAA) will build the first Research Human Trafficking (HT) Healing Center specialized in treating the multifaceted medical conditions (HT) patients suffer with to begin the rehabilitation phase of healing.

Angela Graf, founder of CAA and coordinator for the human trafficking summit says, “We intend on designing and implementing a strong evidenced based curricula from the data collected on the effectiveness of specialized holistic treatments. The data collection process from this project will assist in identifying areas of improvement with the multidisciplinary healthcare clinicians approaches and will contribute with producing superior educational resources to implement best practices for treating HT patients as a whole person focused on the body (physiological), mind (emotional and psychological), and spirit (interfaith spiritual necessities for healing).

In 2014 Laura Lederer testified in the House of Representatives at a hearing for the passage of a bill to address training, referral, reporting, rescue issues for health providers. This testimony led to the drafting and passage of new federal legislation for training health care providers.

Lederer is currently at work designing a model law on health and human trafficking to guide states on how to address health issues resulting from sex and labor trafficking. Lederer was an expert consultant for “The Day My God Died,” a feature-length documentary, that casts a spotlight on the devastating impact child sex trafficking has upon the lives of children trafficked from Nepal to India. She also served as an advisor for the New York Times article that served as the basis for "Trade", a feature length drama based on real cases of international sex trafficking, and starring Kevin Kline. She has advised on training manuals for the U.S. Department of Defense, and assisted in TIP training of foreign national militaries for U.S. Department of Defense Southern Command.

It was reported during an FBI press release on June 23, 2014 that there were 18 children rescued and 11 pimps arrested in Colorado during the annual FBI Innocence lost string operation. With the news that Colorado is experiencing human trafficking, was moved to organize a national summit that will kick-off on Friday, September 11th, 2015 at the Infinity Park Event Center in Denver.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, human trafficking has become the second fastest growing criminal industry — just behind drug trafficking — with children accounting for roughly half of all victims-USA Today- 1/22/2012. Many advocates believe it is now the #1 crime in America.

The series of events from September 10th through September 13th, 2015 under a project umbrella called “Festival Weekend” include a Denver area community awareness promotion that will culminate in the start of Festival Weekend on Thursday, September 10th. The National Summit conference will take place on September 11th, 2015. The summit addresses the Human Trafficking (HT) issues locally in CO and in our nation’s communities, current research, and resources. A Project Restoration Expo will be incorporated into the Summit event with vendors and exhibitors from across the state and nation to give attendees a vast array of resources and education.

Ending the summit on Sunday, September 13th, 2015 the Project Restoration HopeFEST Music Festival will round out Festival Weekend’s HT related events. The music festival will be the backdrop to the project’s prayer campaign and culminate in a National Day of Prayer against HT as well as a family and community oriented music festival event featuring 4 stages of national, regional, and local music groups and artists, cultural exhibits, youth areas, vendors and independent exhibitors, an amateur boxing invitational, and more.

For more information about the summit and to register for the September 10-13 event please visit www.caaprojectrestoration.org  or call 720-325-3239.

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Angela Sandoval-Graf
720-325-3239