Stop Trafficking Now: Ending the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Project Director: Hillary Larkin, PA-C

Principal Investigator: Harrison Alter, MS, MD

The Levitt Center is actively engaged with other agencies in the Bay Area, particularly the HEAT (Human Exploitation And Trafficking) Watch initiative, to fashion a coordinated response by the medical community for trafficked children.  We are also working with researchers at UCSF, Stanford and UC Berkeley to understand better what are the needs of this most vulnerable group, and how the emergency care system might respond to these needs.

In addition, in 2015 Dr. Alter was named to the HEAT Institute, a statewide blue-ribbon commission exploring California's response to the scourge of modern slavery.  The commission completed hearings in mid-2016 and the Institute will complete its first report to the governor and the legislature with the year.