How Services and Legal Rights for Survivors Have Changed Under Trump 2.0
Description:
For almost two years, advocates in the anti-trafficking field have struggled to navigate a rapidly changing policy landscape. This webinar is intended to demystify the changes in federal policy and guidance that impact survivors' ability to access victim services and their legal rights.
Webinar Details
Date: Thursday, November 12, Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET Cost: $50
What you'll learn: Join us to learn about major changes to human trafficking-related policies in 2025 and 2026, including:
Impacts of legislative and budget changes on services for immigrant and US citizen survivors
Changes to regulations, agency guidance, and sub-regulatory actions that impact survivors
Policies that create direct impacts, and those that influence chilling effects and are designed to scare survivors away from coming forward
We will discuss how delayed funding and funding restrictions impact service providers, how agency actions attempt to limit access to social services more broadly, and how policy changes indirectly fuel trafficking by increasing communities' vulnerabilities. The webinar will provide an overview of advocacy efforts to change harmful policies, sharing what has worked and what tactics have had to adapt.
Presenter: Emma Ecker is the Associate Policy Manager at Freedom Network USA, the nation’s largest alliance of survivors, social and legal service providers, academics, and advocates working to transform the human trafficking movement in the US. Emma brings a unique national lens to policy and its impact on human trafficking survivors. She has worked for multiple anti-trafficking non-profits on their policy and communications teams. She has also provided research consultation for anti-trafficking organizations and international forums on online-facilitated trafficking, freedom of association, federal appropriations, and federal trafficking policy. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies from the University of Chicago.
For questions, accommodation requests, or information about available training scholarships for those with lived experience, please email training@freedomnetworkusa.org.