WASHINGTON—American Resort & Lodging Affiliation (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey launched the next assertion relating to the introduction of the Human Trafficking Consciousness Coaching Recognition Act, which requires the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) to ascertain a certification program for companies that practice their staff to acknowledge and reply to suspected human trafficking.
“The Human Trafficking Consciousness Coaching Recognition Act would complement our trade’s anti-trafficking efforts by offering essential third-party validation for motels’ coaching and prevention initiatives,” mentioned Carey. “We’re grateful to Reps. Valadao and Carter for introducing this essential invoice and sit up for serving to them go it into regulation.”
Background
The Human Trafficking Consciousness Coaching Recognition Act was launched this week by Reps. David Valadao, R-Calif., and Troy Carter, D-La.
The laws lets DHS certify companies which have skilled their staff to combat human trafficking and permits these companies to show these annual certifications to the general public. These non-obligatory certifications could be issued by the Blue Marketing campaign on the DHS Heart for Countering Human Trafficking, which works to boost public consciousness of human trafficking.
AHLA, its members, and the AHLA Basis are dedicated to trafficking prevention, and motels have been leaders on this space for a few years.
- Since 2019, the No Room for Trafficking (NRFT) initiative has supported the distribution of free trafficking-prevention coaching for resort staff by means of a partnership with PACT (previously ECPAT-USA).
- These trainings assist resort workers perceive what to search for and the way to answer indicators of trafficking and are paired with AHLA Basis sources that designate the right way to show human trafficking indicator signage in motels, set up company-wide insurance policies, coordinate with regulation enforcement, and share success tales and greatest practices.
- The three out there coaching modules have been taken greater than 1.6 million occasions to this point, and 1000’s are skilled yearly. These numbers don’t embrace further anti-trafficking coaching efforts by AHLA members, which fluctuate in size and frequency.
- The AHLA Basis in 2022 introduced expanded efforts to help trafficking survivors by means of the trade’s first-ever Survivor Fund, which has raised $3.7 million since its inception.
- As a part of its continued dedication to combatting this concern, AHLA Basis is matching NRFT Survivor Fund contributions as much as $5 million {dollars} (with an total purpose of $10 million in complete contributions).
“By the AHLA Basis’s No Room for Trafficking initiative, the resort trade is united within the effort to stop human trafficking and help survivors,” mentioned AHLA Basis President Anna Blue. “The collective impression of the trade can speed up revolutionary human trafficking prevention efforts and upstream methods to make a constructive distinction within the communities the place we work and dwell.”
