NSU Horizons Spring 2016

10 NSU HORIZONS and Project Safe Childhood coordinator, Southern District of Florida, Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office. Human trafficking is an issue Nova Southeastern University is working to tackle. CREATE (Coalition for Research and Education Against Trafficking and Exploitation), headquartered at NSU’s Miramar Campus, has six community partners, including the Southern District of Florida, Miami U.S. Attorney’s Office. And the number continues to grow. CREATE was founded in January 2015 by two professors in NSU’s College of Health Care Sciences’ Department of Health Science—Brianna Black Kent, Ph.D., program director and interim chair, and Sandrine Gaillard-Kenney, Ed.D., assistant dean. Much of CREATE’s advocacy is to raise awareness and provide the community with knowledge about identifying victims of human trafficking. SEEDS PLANTED According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC), Florida ranks third in the nation, following California and New York, in the most cases of human trafficking reported. What constitutes human trafficking? “Any action that forces, coerces, and holds people against their will into some type of labor,” stated Gaillard-Kenney. The three most common types of human trafficking are sexual exploitation, forced labor, and domestic servitude. The seeds of CREATE were planted in 2010, when the two professors attended a symposium sponsored by NSU’s Institute for Child Health Policy, which specifically addressed sexual exploitation of children. “We work in the health care professions and realized that all of the people speaking on the panel were law enforcement. The three most common types of human trafficking are sexual exploitation, forced labor, and domestic servitude.