RRCAHT Presents 5th Annual
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day Event
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day is January 11, 2021. Please join us.
Click hereto register and receive a link to the zoom event.
GNYCBNA Scholarship and Awards Brunch Dr. Celia McIntosh Is Honored with Community Service Award
The Greater New York City Black Nurses Association awarded Dr. Celia McIntosh with its 2nd Annual Community Service award at a virtual ceremony held on December 12, 2020.
Dr. McIntosh was nominated by Dr. Kamila Barnes, Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner dedicated to ending racial and ethnic health disparities, currently working at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
Dr. McIntosh DNP, RN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, SCRN, CEN, CCRN, CNRN, is the President of the Rochester Regional Coalition Against Human Trafficking (RRCAHT). She joined in 2014 after learning for the first time about the horrific crime of human trafficking at an RRCAHT awareness event at Rochester General Hospital.
Celia combines her medical training with her commitment to raising awareness about trafficking victims through the development of educational programs for health care professionals. She presented “Human Trafficking 101: For Emergency Medicine Providers” at Rochester General Hospital’s Best Practices Seminar, the Genesee Valley Chapter Emergency Nurses Association, and the URMC Anti-Human Trafficking Conference.
Most recently, she presented “Human Trafficking: Globally, Locally and its Impact on Human Rights” at the United Nations Association of Rochester, “Sexual Health: Sex Trafficking Violence and the Pandemic” for the CEI Sexual Health Center of Excellence, on a panel for the Wyoming County Safe Harbour Summit, and the 7th Judicial District Statewide Human Trafficking Intervention Court Web Series.
Celia is passionate about ending human trafficking and becoming a voice for policy and social change in the fight against human trafficking.
Click here to see Dr. McIntosh accepting the award.
A Special Thank You To
Church Women United
We would like to acknowledge a very generous donation from Church Women United. This donation was made known to us by Mary Smith, a member of the organization and membership chair of RRCAHT.
Mary told us that because of the possible harm to donations during COVID-19, the board of Church Women United in the Rochester area felt that non-profit organizations such as RRCAHT, who have similar goals to their own -- helping vulnerable people -- could use a financial "boost."
"Thus," Mary said, "it was the unanimous decision of the CWU board to support your endeavors with a sizable donation at this time." To learn more about the work of Church Women United, visit them atwww.churchwomenunited.net
RRCAHT 2020 Survivors Fund Donations
Every year, RRCAHT sets aside funds to support survivors of human trafficking in our community. Member organizations may ask for funds for a specific purpose. This year, Center for Youth received a donation for a client and her young son for Christmas presents.
Gift cards were given to Willow Domestic Violence Center to help two survivors and a donation was made to Hope & Help Counseling, a COVID-19 emotional help hotline.
A Conversation with Melanie Blow Listen to An Episode of
Dr. Celia's Podcast,
"Sitting with CICI"
Click and Listen!
Dr. Celia McIntosh, President of the Rochester Regional Coalition Against Human Trafficking, has a new podcast! Listen to "Sitting with CICI" on Anchor. This episode is "Pornhub Chronicles: Interview with Melanie Blow."
It begins, “Today, I am sitting down with Melanie Blow, Chief Operations Officer for the Stop Abuse Campaign, a national organization that prevents Adverse Childhood Experiences through public education and public policy. She is a founding member of the RRCAHT. As a member of its board of directors, she uses her experience to help RRCAHT manage its media and communications goals. Melanie also sits on the Trauma-Informed Community Initiative of Western NY, the Downstate Crime Victims Coalition (the only member west of the Hudson) and is a member of the public policy committee of the Association of Professionals Against Child Abuse.”
JANUARY 14:The next monthly meeting of RRCAHT, via Zoom, will be Thursday, January 14 at 4 p.m. If you are interested in attending, and need access information, contact rrcaht1@gmail.com
COMING SOON: Webinar: "The Weaponization of Child Trafficking" with Presenter Melanie Blow.
One day you’re struggling to make people believe that human trafficking happens in their own neighborhood. The next day, half of your Facebook friends think a furniture retailer is trafficking kidnapped children. References to child trafficking and legalizing pedophilia are everywhere, and you keep hearing all this stuff about QAnon. What’s going on?! Why have human trafficking and child sexual abuse been weaponized over night? What does it say about us as a society? And what opportunities and obligations does it represent for the anti-human trafficking community? RRCAHT founding member and board member Melanie Blow will answer these questions and more in an upcoming webinar -- stay tuned. Melanie is active in legislative advocacy, the anti-human trafficking community, the sex abuse survivor community, and has a passion for cultural history and sociology. And she’s going to bring it all together in a webinar. Keep checking your email for the specific time and date.
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