FINAL PROJECT:Structures and Arguments > How Health Care Professionals Can Protect Human Trafficking Victims

Beginning:
Hook audience with story of either sara kruzan (In re sara kruzan) or star (renting lacy). Both stories will provide pathos to pull on the reader’s heartstrings and prepare them to be more invested in the logos that will be provided later in the paper. Ethos for both stories is very strong, one being a US Court Case, the other being a story told by a former sex trafficking victim, with corroborative stories from police and others. I will try to focus on a part of the story that involves a visit to the ER where a victim is not identified and is sent back with their pimp/trafficker.
Definitions of human trafficking will be introduced such as
• John- consumer of sex trafficking
• Quick run through of visas
• Trafficking victims protection act of 2000
• Organ trafficking
Middle: Divide the main part of our document into three or four points that either inform your audience of content they need or prepare them for advice or recommendation
1. Introduce main issues of human trafficking, with a broader scope (broader intro into problem than the story in the beginning)
2. Highlight issues in the region (D.C. area)
3. Provide issues of how trafficking victims are not being fully helped by healthcare facilities
a. Not sounding accusatory, just trying to inform to increase knowledge of the topic
b. Lack of shelters and funds to assist victims
c. Nonidentification of victims-> language barriers, psychological coercion, presence of a pimp or trafficker influencing patient (victim) response
4. Recommendation for health care professionals in the greater DC area on how to identify and protect victims of human trafficking
a. Focusing on ER-> most victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking will go here, although they are only taken in dire circumstances by traffickers (less chance of being caught)
b. Address how other fields can encounter victims
i. Psychologists- mental health of victims post-trafficking
ii. Family medicine- identifying potential victims of human trafficking; most child victims are those that have bad family situations that allow a pimp to manipulate the child to become one of his “hoes”-> making a doctors role in being aware of family situations and the child’s state of mind all the more important
c. Increased communication between hospitals and victim resources, including law enforcement-> involve non government organizations (NGOs)
d. All leads to establishment of anti-trafficking initiatives at hospitals, expanding the mission statement of Medicine For Peace to include human trafficking victims
End:
Information for the reader to KNOW about the scope of human trafficking in the US, to understand HOW TO IDENTIFY potential human trafficking victims in the patient care field, and WHAT TO DO when they find a human trafficking victim. Recommendations will be made based on victim shelters around the DC area, legal options available to trafficked victims, and how to report trafficking activity to the police to assist in apprehension of the trafficker.
Logos- will be provided with use of statistics on human trafficking in the US (Bales), as well as more specific trafficking information for northern VA, MD, D.C. (sex ads posted, ER visit information). Statistics that medical professionals have not been exposed to before should help them realize how relevant it is to them, increasing their empathy for victims.
Pathos- appealing to the emotions of the reader to do their part to alleviate suffering felt by human trafficking victims. If they are more invested and aware of this problem, health care professionals should have an easier time identifying victims
Ethos- the AUTHORITY on human trafficking in America- Bales- the slave next door. Court cases and other non government organizations provide reputable information that has been checked by numerous other agencies.
STRUCTURE (from begining, middle, end): LEMON SHAPE
I will start with a story to show an example of human trafficking to make the issue more relatable to the reader. After defining some terms and human trafficking laws in the US, I will widen out to the fullness of the problem in the United States, focusing on types of trafficking with physical and psychological abuse that would be relevant to the health care field. I will then narrow down to regional trafficking data and issues specific to trafficking that health care professionals would encounter in their work. Finally, ending with a recommendation on how health care professionals can use this knowledge to identify trafficking victims and how they can aid in their protection.
GOAL: The goal of this paper is to inform the medical community in the D.C. region about the incidence and prevalence of human trafficking in the United States and the region. Most in the health care field are not exposed to criminological and political science issues such as this, after being educated on the problem they will be more willing and invested in a recommendation to help them do their part to protect the victims of human trafficking.
December 4, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterBP
Capitalization in your cases? Are these court cases or movies?

Also, I think this might be too large for the 7-10 page document. Let's talk about how to trim or re-scope. See you in office hours on Wednesday.
December 5, 2017 | Registered CommenterMarybeth Shea