Child Sexual Exploitation and Gangs

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Child Sexual Exploitation and Gangs

• Linda L. Nosbush
• Understanding the Early Years
• Prince Albert Site

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Physical Environment
Social Environment

• Societal relationships and influences
• Health Care
• Leisure
• Family, friends, community
• Work
• Childhood experiences environments

• Natural Environment
• Built Environment

• Individual behaviours
• Spiritual well-being
• Genetic biological characteristics
• Coping skills
• Values

Saskatchewan Provincial Health Council Determinan
ts of Health 1996
The Individual
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CIRCLE OF COURAGE
Generosity
Belonging
Independence
Mastery
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BelongingIts not strategies or programs that
fix things its relationships. (Van Bockern)

• Belonging
• To ones family and
• To ones community as an extension of the family
• To ones peer group
• To ones school
• Rituals
• Of Inclusion
• Ensures
• Security and Trust
• Sense of Worth and Feeling that You Matter
• Risk-taking Behaviour
• Learning
• Forming Relationships

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MasteryWe tell kinds to behave, but we dont
tell them how to behave (Sharp)

• People who do not feel competent to accomplish
  the tasks and challenges that face them daily are
  likely to develop a deep conviction of
  helplessness.
• Young people with such convictions may withdraw
  into passivity and dependency or, try to
  compensate in a variety of unhealthy ways
• Perfectionist Workaholics trying to stave off
  failure arrogant or intolerant to any challenge
  to their way of doing things fearful that their
  inadequacy will be revealed
• Some become highly skilled in ways not valued by
  society lying, cheating, stealing, vandalism,
  or other delinquent acts
• Children are more motivated by collaboration than
  rivalry
• Children need a sense of achievement and many
  experiences of success
• Seat of Self-Esteem

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IndependenceChildren need to learn that they are
capable.

• Independence is a basic need and helps children
  discover their own sense of power
• However, responsibility is its close relative
  children need to take responsibility for their
  decisions and actions
• Self-discipline emerges from within
• Insisting on obedience or power over children may
  lead them to bully and manipulate others or to
  become helpless and over-dependent

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GenerosityIf no ones ever done anything for
these kids, why would they want to do anything
for anyone else? (Teacher)

• Share, be generous, do random acts of kindness
• By reaching out with concern for others we are
  drawn out of ourselves and our own problems
• Builds a bond between us and those we care for
  thereby increasing belonging
• Suggests to children that they are connected and
  that they matter and are necessary for the
  functioning of their families, schools,
  communities and peer group.

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Global Health Impact of Child ProstitutionBrian
Willis, 2003

• Fundamental violation of Human Rights
• Contemporary Slavery
• Criminalize social exploitation
• Sexual Exploitation results in
• Pain
• Trafficking of children for sexual purposes
• Prostitution
• Use in any form for sex (consideration money,
  food, drugs)
• 2 million children forced into commercial sexual
  exploitation
• 1 million children through prostitution
• Globally, all forms 10 million children per year

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Global Health Impact of Child ProstitutionBrian
Willis, 2003

• Causes
• Poverty
• Gender bias
• Believe they are not HIV/AIDS affected
• Acceptability
• Lack of political will
• War
• Mothers who have been sexually exploited
• Globalization
• Child abuse
• Laws not enforced
• Profit - 20 billion per year for all ages

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Global Health Impact of Child ProstitutionBrian
Willis, 2003

• Effects
• STDs cost 10 billion/year 2 million/year
  complicated STDs 237,000/year
• Pregnancy 4,752 maternal deaths/year 190,000
  infant deaths
• Abortion-related complications 900,000
  spontaneous abortions, 1.2 million abortions
• Hospitalization from injuries
• Individual and national underdevelopment
• HIV/AIDS 300,000/year greatly increases risk of
  active tuberculosis
• Hepatitis B
• Tuberculosis
• Violence (3/4 assaulted 2/3 raped
• Increased suicide attempts

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Global Health Impact of Child ProstitutionBrian
Willis, 2003

• Intervention
• Prevent
• Risk Reduction
• Recovery
• Short Term
• Long Term
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Psychological Issues
• Community based
• Comprehensive
• Identification of Risk Factors
• Understanding Why
• For boys
• For girls
• For certain populations

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Global Health Impact of Child ProstitutionDevelop
mental Concerns

• Threatens sense of safety and trust
• Threatens health
• Threatens capacity to form relationship
• Violates sense of home and community
• Depresses capacity to learn, grow and develop

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How do we CreateA World Fit for Children?
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Policy, Programs and Resources

• International
• United Nation Convention on the Rights of the
  Child
• A World Fit for Children
• National
• National Childrens Agenda
• National Plan of Action
• Provincial
• Human Services Integration Forum
• School Plus
• Youth Justice
• Kids First
• FASD
• Early Learning and Care
• Regional
• Regional Intersectoral Committee
• Local
• Understanding the Early Years Monitoring,
  Knowledge Exchange, Child Development, Capacity
  Building
• Intersectoral Collaboration
• Participation in National Dialogue for National
  Plan of Action

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The Collaborative Synergy
Dialogue
Groups/Sectors
Individuals
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The Transactional Synergy
Process
Product
Transaction
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The Star of Hope, Resilience, Growth, and
Transformation
Dialogue
Process
Product
Transformation Resilience Hope
Change, Growth, Development Courage
Groups/Sectors
Individuals
Transaction
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Health, Well-being, and Competence

• Are communal responsibilities
• Are determined in the same way
• But, we all have a role to play in how the
  future unfolds . . . .

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What will our legacy to our children be?
Will it enable them to build a strong future
filled with hope and possibility?
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We live, love, learn, and develop our human-being
in the shelter of each other.
Can we each go forth to make Prince Albert a
place where all can, not only survive, but thrive?