Features
Ninfa Saunders, past president and chief executive officer of Navicent Health, speaks at the health system’s Conference to End Human Trafficking. Photo credit: Ken Krakow
Human Traf cking: Hospitals Often a First Line of Defense Training, education, and resources can help everyone be vigilant. By Patty Gregory Rob Stevens, a 23-year veteran of law enforcement in Fulton County and Sandy Springs, has extensive experience with human trafficking victims through his assignments in everything from narcotics to vice to street level prostitution. As a supervisor to the FBI’s Metro Atlanta Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking (MATCH) task force, Stevens targeted underage prostitution in metro Atlanta. He spent nights on Cleveland Avenue counseling underage victims of prostitution and helped kids as young as 14 who were living on the streets. In July 2017, Stevens made the move to Wellstar Health System because of his extensive experience with human trafficking victims.
24
twentyfourseven Fall 2020
