Screening for Human Trafficking: Guidelines for Administering the Trafficking Victim Identification Tool (TVIT)

Course overview

This course addresses the administration of the Trafficking Victim Identification Tool (TVIT) to clients who are potential trafficking victims by victim service agency staff and other social service providers. Law enforcement, health care, and shelter workers will also find it helpful in improving trafficking victim identification, especially in conjunction with appropriate training or mentoring. The manual content is based in part on results of research conducted by the Vera Institute of Justice, which collaborated with leading legal and victim services agencies in the United States, to produce the validated screening tool and best practices for identifying trafficked persons. This course The screening tool can be used in its short version (consisting of 16 core questions, plus questions specific to migration for the foreign-born) without loss of predictive ability, or in its longer form, depending upon the situation and purpose of screening.