Melissa Kaiser /. Human Trafficking Expert / Secondary Trauma

This week I was blessed to have the opportunity to sit down with Melissa Kaiser, a subject mater expert in all thing human trafficking and the related areas of secondary trauma and compassion fatigue. Melissa and I discuss the many forms human trafficking takes and she provides insight and skill sets for law enforcement in addressing this often miss understood crime. I learned much from our discussion. On of the key takeaways for me was that I thought like most, that the majority of human trafficking was what I saw in the movies, the drugging of the beauty pageant queen, abduction and transportation to a foreign land. Not the case at all, it rarely happens that way, however unfortunately  the more likely scenario is that it's happening with people much closer to the victim than we want to believe. Sit back and give this episode a listen and walk away more informed and inspired for it, Until next week, take care of yourself and each other, God Bless, John


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OVERVIEW
Melissa is a licensed social worker specializing in anti-human trafficking work, developing/maintaining multi-disciplinary teams, and secondary traumatic stress. She is a certified trainer in Green Dot, Compassion Fatigue, GEMS, Stand to Protect, My Life My Choice, and SHARP, and is Child Welfare and Safe Zone trained. She has eight years of experience providing training and technical assistance, and person-centered trauma-informed case management to victims of human trafficking. Melissa has trained over 11,000 students and professionals, and sits on the Badges of Unity Board for Fargo PD. Her past experience includes treatment foster care, prevention education program supervision, case management, and psychiatric and addictions. She was the first Human Trafficking Navigator and Victim/Witness Specialist in ND, with eight years of program development.
Melissa combines her experience as a social worker and a team leader with her TEND certification to provide education on compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress.

Melissa was a nominee for the YWCA's Women of the Year 2020. She was born and raised in North Dakota, and has resided in Clearwater, FL, since January 2022.

EXPERIENCE
Melissa is a member of the North Dakota Human Trafficking Task Force, and was the vice-chair of the labor trafficking subcommittee for six years. She developed a human trafficking program and protocol response for ND. Melissa assisted in the development of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Victim/Witness Program and was the first Specialist hired for that role. She has experience with demand reduction programming and assisting law enforcement with considerations for outreach operations and victim interactions. 
Melissa has trained at IAHTI, GRIT, Dallas Crimes Against Children, Shared Hope, NCPTF and IHTSJ conferences, specific to human trafficking, team development, person-centered and trauma informed approaches, and secondary trauma.

WEBSITES
http://swsecrets.net/ 
https://melkai-consulting-llc.business.site/ 
https://members.emancipa

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