Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center is one of the first hospitals in the country to bring a survivor advocate of Human Trafficking into the health care setting to help clinical staff identify victims or potential victims of Human Trafficking. This initiative has been led by our human trafficking committee. This committee meets quarterly and reviews HT global and domestic initiatives and reviews the success of our Survivor Advocate Program. This program is done in partnership with CAST (Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking) a Los Angeles Non-Profit focused on eliminating HT. This program has been in place for nearly 3 years and serves our 4 LA-Based Hospitals (CHMC, SMLB, Northridge, and GMC).

This program has seen significant success with the ED, L&D, and SW Departments, where staff identifies victims or potential victims on a monthly basis if not more frequently. From the time this program was launched to date we have identified over 200 victims or potential victims throughout our health care system. CHMC has identified more victims or potential victims than any other Dignity Health Hospital. In partnership with CAST, the HT committee and survivor advocate program have received regional and national attention through the Los Angeles human trafficking task force, dignity health research conference, dignity health conference on human trafficking, Villanova University Law Conference, and the mutual of America community partners award.