In an article published in the Harvard Gazette, Abigail Judge, PhD, a national expert on human trafficking and a clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry, discusses her work with homeless victims of human trafficking.
Judge and peer advocate Sandra Andrade run the outreach program Boston HEAT (Human Exploitation and Sex Trafficking). Boston HEAT is a collaboration between Dr. Abigail Judge and Sandra Andrade of MGH and the Boston Police Department’s Human Trafficking Unit (HTU) dedicated to women at the intersection of substance use and the commercial sex trade. Boston HEAT mobilizes clinical and peer support for women who are trapped in cycles of commercial sexual exploitation and addiction through a continuum of low threshold settings: tailored street and jail outreach, HTU ride-along’s, and a nighttime drop-in center in Boston’s “Mass and Cass” neighborhood. Collaboration with law enforcement helps reimagine police contact as an opportunity for services rather than arrest. Boston HEAT is supported by the Imago Dei Fund.
Read more in the Harvard Gazette: Why it’s so hard to end homelessness in America.
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Judge AM, Andrade S, Sullivan M. (2023). Boston HEAT: Psychology, peer, law enforcement collaboration to engage women at the intersection of sex trafficking and substance use. Invited presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. San Francisco, CA.
Judge AM. Uncharted Waters: Developing Mental Health Services for Survivors of Domestic Human Sex Trafficking. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2018 Sep/Oct; 26(5):287-297.
