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How Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking Becomes Normalized in Families and Communities
September 8, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join us as Dr. Abigail Judge returns to help us better understand “How Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking Becomes Normalized in Families and Communities”, scheduled for Thursday, September 8, 2022, from 2 PM – 3 PM. One can register for this free event here.
Session participants will learn more about this complex topic to increase awareness as well as identify gaps and resources.
Abigail Judge Ph.D. is a clinical and forensic psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and in private practice, and she is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Judge’s hospital-based clinical work, scholarship, and teaching focus on improving the clinical response to women impacted by the continuum of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. Dr. Judge has worked with this population as a therapist, educator, court-appointed evaluator, and expert witness since 2009.
At MGH, Dr. Judge leads MGH Connect: A Project for Outreach and Recovery, which provides low threshold – that is more easily accessible and acceptable – psychological and peer support for women at the intersection of substance use and commercial sexual exploitation/sex trafficking, and is based at the MGH Bridge Clinic. In 2021, this project received a grant from the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General to expand access for BIPOC women through survivor mentoring and engaging women detained at the Suffolk County House of Correction.
This session is sponsored by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region’s Human Trafficking & Sexual Exploitation Workgroup.
