Domestic Service Workers: Increasing Identification Through Outreach

Organizer(s):

IRC Framework TA

Participants:

This event featured Mary Caparas, the Project Free Manager at Womankind (formerly New York Asian Women’s Center).

Date: 2021

Language: English

Topic(s): Labor Trafficking

In this 1-hour video you’ll gain insight into conducting direct and indirect outreach to individuals experiencing or at risk for labor trafficking in domestic service.

00:07 – Introduction of Mary Caparas
01:57 – Learning objectives
02:37 – Defining domestic service work
04:58 – Poll: Which of the following do you think can be examples of domestic work? Babysitters, janitors, home health aides, contractors, school teachers
07:03 – Examples of domestic work
07:24 – Involuntary servitude
08:18 – What the National Human Trafficking Hotline Data can tell us
12:25 – Data on industries
12:56 – Video: History and Present Realities (Roma)
17:00 – Risk factors and outreach challenges for domestic workers
22:55 – Preliminary questions to ask yourself before developing outreach materials
25:50 – Examples of outreach materials: Pros and Cons
28:40 – Outreach recommendations: Locations
30:08 – Creating an Ecomap
34:09 – Outreach recommendations: Partners
36:23 – Case Study: How Womankind connected with a workers’ rights campaign
38:57 – Lessons learned from case study
40:53 – Video: The Importance of Word of Mouth

Q&A
43:33 – Where are some places where you have seen domestic workers gathering where outreach could be conducted?
46:40 – How do you reach people at-risk or who are being trafficked for domestic work in the context of COVID-19?
49:19 – Does Womankind track the calls and e-mails it gets back to a particular material or drop location? If so, how?
50:50 – Are there expected changes to the employment laws that were discussed that may improve working conditions for domestic workers in the near future?
53:00 – What types of visuals are effective on outreach materials? What types should be avoided?