Date
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Time
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Name
Building Bridges: How Michigan is Transforming Its Response to Child & Youth Victims of Trafficking
Track
Multi-Disciplinary Team
Speakers
Parker Clement, Uniting Three Fires Against Violence
Jordan Kennedy, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, Div. of Victim Services
Tifany Martinez, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, Div. of Victim Services
Elizabeth Moon Carter, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, Div. of Victim Services
Jordan Kennedy, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, Div. of Victim Services
Tifany Martinez, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, Div. of Victim Services
Elizabeth Moon Carter, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, Div. of Victim Services




Description
This session will provide participants with an inside look at how Michigan is leveraging a federal award to strengthen collaboration and coordination to improve systemic responses to children and youth victims of labor and sex trafficking. Participants will learn how Michigan is addressing gaps and barriers in the state's evolving antitrafficking landscape, the essential role collaborative partnerships played in the project's success and how those partnerships enabled the completion of the first-of-its-kind survey developed to understand human trafficking from a service provider's perspective.