b'Jeanne was founder and executive director of The Samaritan Women, a longterm restorative care program for female survivors of domestic sex trafficking. She was the chief architect behind their Christian care model. Today she serves as executive director of the Institute for Shelter Care, a national organization that seeks to train and equip trafficking shelters nationwide.To work well with our partners, we created a simple Supervisors Observation form, whereby residential staff could document their patterns of interaction and observation of a given resident andwith the residents permissionshare those with the medical or mental health practitioner. merits of the chemistry, and alert us to anypoints to consider when formulating an accurate potential risks that might be present. It mightdiagnosis. To work well with our partners, we take us a couple of days to get the new residentcreated a simple Supervisors Observation form, scheduled for a medical assessment, but in thewhereby residential staff could document their meantime, we would be cognizant of whichpatterns of interaction and observation of a given medications should not be combined with othersresident andwith the residents permissionor in what dosages, thereby keeping her safe.share those with the medical or mental health Second, we also came to appreciate the rolepractitioner. For example, its often very impor-that the shelter staff could have with the residenttant for the practitioner to know how the survivor getting a qualified diagnosis. We had to make sureis sleeping. The resident might simply say, not our staff at the Institute for Shelter Care was wellwell, and the overnight supervisor can round trained in the most common disorders amongout that response with details on how many trafficking victims and in the frequent interplaytimes during the night that person is up and between mental illness and substance use. Forwalking around. Its been our experience that example, according to the Journal of Clinical Psy- those professionals who are invested in making chiatry, up to 70 percent of people who meet thethe best possible assessment welcome this criteria for bipolar disorder also have a historyadditional input. of substance abuse. So we needed a team that wasAs we enter into our third decade of the skilled at distinguishing those dynamics. We alsoantitrafficking movement in this nation, it is needed to work with medical partners who valuedimportant for us to approach the work with the unique vantage point of those who observeongoing humility. We still have a lot to learn, and interact with residents 24/7 in a variety ofnot only from the changing face of survivors, but contexts. There is often an untapped opportunityalso from our respective fields. The Institute has to combine medical/mental health practitionersrecently forged a cooperative agreement withgiven their training and assessmentswithCitygate Network to advance gospel-centered shelter staff who bear witness to the residentscare for individuals dealing with homelessness, routines, mood swings, response to stressors,addiction, and sexual exploitation. Because we reactions to medication, dietary habits, sleepknow that many trafficking survivors have inter-patterns, as well as to seeming minutiae like howsected with homeless services, we believe that as much sugar the client puts in coffee, how manywe each bring the best of what we have to offer cigarettes he or she smokes in a day, and more.to the table, God will be glorified, and victims All of these observations can be important datawill come to know freedom. \x03 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2024WWW.CITYGATENETWORK.ORG 39'