Advocacy Cafe

Trauma Informed and Barrier Free Response to Human Trafficking

Description

Join us for this training featuring Lynn Sanchez from The Life Link about a trauma informed and barrier free response to human trafficking for Human Trafficking Awareness Month!

Facilitator

Lynn Sanchez serves as the Director of Human Trafficking Outreach and Aftercare Services at The Life Link (since 2008) and is deeply committed to supporting survivors on their path to recovery. The Life Link HT Aftercare Department is a survivor/CPSW (certified peer support) led team, with over 15 years of aftercare service. Lynn founded the State of New Mexico human trafficking 24-hour text-able resource and referral line; 505-GET-FREE (438-3733) in 2012. Lynn co-chairs the New Mexico Human Trafficking Task Force (since 2015) and collaborates with state-wide and nation-wide organizations. She established Sojourner’s Advocacy Café in 2007 offering trauma specific outreach, comprehensive and intensive case management, and advocacy services to homeless women and families struggling with mental health, substance abuse, and trauma histories (including human trafficking). Lynn graduated from the University Maryland VTT (Victims of Trauma and Torture) post-graduate certificate program in 2012 and is a licensed mental health clinician.