Caroline Palmer and Beatriz Menanteau
Recorded
April 16, 2021
39:27 minutes
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ddv000671
Description
Friends and colleagues Beatriz Menanteau [no age given] and Caroline Palmer (53) talk about their shared work at Safe Harbor in Minnesota and how they got involved with anti-trafficking work within the public health sector. Together, they discuss the implementation of harm reduction and prevention strategies in their work, the successes of the Minnesota Student Survey, and how the pandemic and the racial crisis have impacted the communities they work with.Subject Log / Time Code
CP talks about the Safe Harbor program and its structure and purpose, which is to provide services for youth survivors of sexual and labor trafficking.
BM talks about how she started working in the area of anti-trafficking. She explains that she was born in Chile and raised in the US. She studied law and eventually started working in human rights. She explains how the law works with regard to youth survivors of trafficking.
BM talks about the Safe Harbor law in Minnesota and how it takes a public health and human rights approach.
CP talks about how she got involved in anti-trafficking work, saying she was influenced by her work as a lawyer with the Minnesota Aids Project.
BM talks about how law and policy can have such an impact on people’s lives through big programs like Safe Harbor.
CP talks about using a harm reduction model with young people and learning how to build a system that best fits the needs of their stakeholders.
BM and CP discuss the multidisciplinary approach of public health that acknowledges racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc.
BM and CP talk about prevention in the work they do, and how it differs from previous work they have done as lawyers, where they were mitigating harm that had already occurred.
BM talks about the Minnesota Student Survey and how it is used to collect data to refine services for students. She talks about working to add a question that would provide data about sexual assault and sexual eploitation.
BM and CP talk about what they learned from that first prevalence data about trafficking and exploitation in the state of Minnesota. CP also talks about making sure to uplift the voices of survivors throughout the work they do.
CP talks about how the pandemic affected the services they provide in the state.
CP discusses how the students and providers they work with have been affected by the racial crisis in Minnesota. CP also brings up the work being done by indigenous communities to address the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women.
Participants
- Caroline Palmer
- Beatriz Menanteau