Human Trafficking and Sex Work: Foundational Social-Work Principles

Crystal DeBoise, LMSW, is a Managing Director of the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center. She founded the Human Trafficking Services Program at the New York Association for New Americans in 2002, one of the first and longest-running human trafficking programs in the nation. Prior to that, she provided counseling services to victims of violence in a substance abuse clinic in the Bronx and worked for several years with survivors of domestic violence. She works with clients and systems eclectically, using human rights and harm-reduction approaches that respect the rights of all people to therapeutic care.