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“The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute is pleased to have collaborated with Sojourner Center to find a fitting place for the SAFE Action Project to expand and achieve the next level,” noted Sarah Suggs, President and CEO of the O’Connor Institute. For Sojourner Center, this move enhances the services we already provide to people in need of shelter, safety and a fresh start.” There are many overlapping issues between the two populations. “Often, human trafficking involves issues of domestic violence and vice versa. “As one of the leading domestic violence shelters in the Southwest, we’ve been working with trafficking victims for 38 years,” Dr. “Sojourner Center will expand the training project to include crucial aspects of labor and adult trafficking, as well as develop trainings for other areas of the tourism industry.” “The SAFE Action Project was initially established as a hospitality industry program to train employees on the warning signs of child sex trafficking,” Sanders said. Robert Knechtel, Chief Operating Officer at Sojourner Center. Savannah Sanders, who led the program with the O’Connor Institute, will now become Human Trafficking Services Manager at Sojourner Center, according to Dr.

The O’Connor Institute selected the Phoenix-based Sojourner Center, which has served women and children affected by domestic violence since 1977, to sustain and grow the project and provide services to individuals who have been exploited.

#Sandra day o connor institute full

Since its creation in 2013, The SAFE Action Project has grown significantly and the O’Connor Institute determined that to expand more fully, a service provider to develop the project to its full potential was now in order. 26, 2016 – The SAFE (Safeguarding Adolescents from Exploitation) Action Project, a program to help identify victims of child sex trafficking established and incubated by the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute, is now part of Sojourner Center, one of the largest domestic violence shelters in the U.S., the two organizations today announced.