Seeing What Often Goes Unseen: Identifying and Supporting Survivors of Exploitation

This training is intended for both those experienced in supporting CSE survivors and those new to this work, alike, social service providers, public health, and housing providers as well as agencies that work specifically with Gender-Based Violence survivors but may not have expertise in CSE. This event is co-hosted by the City of Seattle Human Services Department, King County Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy, and the Coalition Ending Gender-based Violence.

Audrey Baedke, Jasmine Conway, and Sarah Ciambrone are co-facilitating the training. The training will be followed by a panel of local CSE providers including Krystle Haga from the Organization for Prostitution Survivors, Hao Nguyen from API Chaya, Doris O'Neal and Jasmine Fernandez from the YWCA Gender-Based Violence Survivor Services, and LaTanya Horace Dubois from the Silent Task Force to discuss their work and learned strategies, including recent responses to the potential rise of CSE during FIFA/World Cup.

Training Topics:

• What is CSE: How to recognize it? Who is affected?
• How to assist survivors in accessing resources?
• What is the crisis response for CSE?
• Working with specific populations such as immigrants, LGBTQIA+, youth (especially minors).
• Housing and shelter resources for survivors of CSE
• How to work with those affected by CSE who may not identify as survivors or wish to leave “the life”
• How CSE interplays within Human Trafficking?

About our Facilitators:

Audrey Baedke first learned about human trafficking as a young adult when a friend was recruited by a pimp. Since then, she has spent more than 20 years working alongside survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking. She co-founded and led a nonprofit serving survivors, trained thousands of professionals across sectors including housing, healthcare, education, and social services, and helped communities strengthen their responses to exploitation. Today, Audrey combines survivor advocacy, coaching, training, and community organizing to support both individual growth and systems change. She currently helps coordinate statewide collaborative efforts to improve prevention, survivor support, and accountability across Washington, bringing a practical, survivor-informed perspective to the work of building safer and more connected communities.

Jasmine Conway, M.A., is a survivor of human trafficking, researcher, and founder of One Survivor to Another. For a decade, she has worked to bring awareness and strengthen responses to exploitation, trafficking, and gender-based violence through advocacy, prevention education, peer support, research, training, and cross-sector collaboration. Drawing from both lived experience and professional expertise, Jasmine is committed to ensuring that survivors are understood, honored, and centered in the policies, services, and systems that impact their lives. She has contributed to statewide efforts to strengthen survivor-centered approaches, including leading research on the impacts of the commercial sex industry on Black and African American women in Washington State. Today, she brings together insights from survivors, service providers, communities, and systems across Washington to implement coordinated responses, strengthen collaboration, and improve outcomes for survivors.

Sarah Ciambrone, Coordinator, Washington Advisory Council on Trafficking (WARN), a dynamic coalition led by the International Rescue Committee in Washington, uniting non-governmental organizations to offer direct support to victims of human trafficking across Washington State. Since our inception in 2004, we’ve been committed to assisting survivors of sex and labor trafficking in achieving their desired lives, free from re-victimization. WARN's coalition, including key partners API Chaya and Real Escape from the Sex Trade (REST), excels in delivering community-based and culturally informed services. The WARN collaborative efforts ensure the provision of comprehensive, linguistically appropriate, and low-barrier access to support for those most vulnerable to trafficking.

About our Panelists:

Hao Nguyen, MSW, is a nationally recognized leader in the anti-human trafficking field and serves as Program Manager of the Human Trafficking Program at API Chaya. She brings nearly two decades of professional experience and holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington, with specialized expertise in supporting foreign-born survivors with complex and intersecting needs.

In her role at API Chaya, Ms. Nguyen leads a multidisciplinary team delivering survivor-centered, trauma-informed services across Washington State. She is also an established trainer, speaker, and consultant on human trafficking and survivor advocacy. Her leadership and impact have earned notable recognition, including an award from the U.S. Department of Justice, Western District of Washington, and the International Rescue Committee’s Courage Award for her outstanding leadership and commitment to trafficking survivors.

Krystle Haga is the Director of Programs at the Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS) and an enrolled member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. As a survivor of familial trafficking, I entered "the life" at age 13 and remained in it until my 30s. After exiting, I dedicated myself to advocacy and have been working in the movement ever since.

I am trained in domestic violence/intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking (CSE/CST). Throughout my career, I have served in multiple roles within the anti-trafficking and survivor advocacy movement. In my current position, I oversee programs and partnerships, ensuring they align with our mission and survivor-centered approach. I am passionate about elevating survivor voices, fostering meaningful collaboration, and standing alongside survivors as they reclaim their power and move forward in their healing journeys.

Jasmine Fernandez is a Community Advocate in the YWCA Gender-Based Violence Specialized Services Department who graduated with a B.A. in Law, Societies, & Justice from the University of Washington. She remains firmly committed to the welfare of survivors of gender-based violence, recognizing that the fight against any form of oppression is vital to the struggle for the liberation of all oppressed peoples. Her approach to advocacy is informed by their experiences as a survivor and guided by an ethic of love, centering the needs and lived experiences of those at the margins of society. They believe that subsistence is not the extent of recovery from abuse. Far beyond survival, she believes that survivors of gender-based violence survivors deserve to thrive and is committed to doing the work necessary to realize that outcome.

LaTanya Horace, as the Founder & Executive Director of The Silent Task Force, we are committed to the creation, coordination, and facilitation of culturally specific educational workshops, training and programs that are aimed to heal the systemic impacts of violence in Black communities. These educational pursuits foster training/workshops for youth and community to empower and address the historical and current dealings of domestic violence, sexual violence, health disparities, education & social justice and promote healthy relationships. I have been a practitioner of trauma informed healing work with youth, families and the community by being an intra-community activist, advocate and unifier. Through my years of work and compassion for the community, I have engaged in policy reform implementation, strategic planning and outreach and engagement.

Doris O’Neal, GBV Associate Director, YWCA of Seattle King Snohomish. For more than 30 years, Doris O’Neal has been dedicated to survivor-defined advocacy, public policy, and restorative justice, with a focus on helping survivors who are African American, living in poverty, or experiencing housing instability. Employed by the YWCA (Seattle/King County) for 20 years, Doris O’Neal is currently the Director of Gender Based Violence Specialized Services. In her current position, she manages on GBV legal advocacy program. Survivor First project. Previously Doris managed the commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). Doris is a nationally recognized domestic violence expert and advocate. In partnership with the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, she was consultant on the Technical Assistance Guidance Series: Serving Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence. In partnership with the King County Prosecutor’s Office, Doris established Survivors FIRST (Facilitating Information and Resources for Survivors of Trauma) to directly connect to intervention services without criminal charges (https://www.ywcaworks.org/programs/survivors-first). She has presented nationally, Conference on Crimes against Women, EWANI conference and many more. She has provided technical assistance to Associated Prosecutor’s Attorney around Survivor defendant diversion program. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and spending time with her grandchildren.

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