Notable 校友 | Bryttani Debro Helps Victims of Human Trafficking in Ohio

编者按: 文学院 & 科学系杰出校友奖 honor alumni for broad career accomplishments, 致力于社区服务, and valuable contributions to newbb电子平台 and the 文学院 & 科学.

Bryttani Debro ’12 Sociology-Criminology, ’16 Master of Public Administration

Bryttani Debro在 俄亥俄州中部救世军 as the Anti-Human Trafficking Coordinator, helping to provide supportive client centered services to men, women and children who have been victims of sex and labor trafficking.

Debro is responsible for leadership, oversight and direction of the Anti-Human Trafficking Programs in Central Ohio, with emphasis on Franklin County and other counties in the southern portion of the Central Ohio Rescue and Restore Coalition 服务区域. She develops and implements victim services programs to meet the needs of trafficked persons, 其中包括宣传, 应急响应, 病例管理, 治疗和救助中心. Her responsibilities include supervising staff and interns, as well as overseeing 油井 (the center for women trafficked in the sex industry), and 应急响应 to calls placed to the Central Ohio Reach and Restore Coalition 24/7 trafficking hotline. She also facilitates meetings of the Central Ohio Reach and Restore Coalition and works to maintain and build community and state partnerships.

Debro was recently featured in two news articles.

• “Salvation Army Opens West Side Center For Human Trafficking SurvivorsWOSU:

“We’ve seen an influx in survivors that are in need of assistance,” she says. “So that is why we have decided to have a drop in center on the West Side, to bring those services directly to them in their community.”

In addition to providing immediate help like a meal and clothing, the Salvation Army offers longer term 病例管理, 戒毒和帮助找房子.

• “New center helps sex trafficking survivors in the HilltopWBNS TV 10:

For thousands of women and girls in central Ohio’s world of sex trafficking, finding a safe place with resources could be the difference between life and death.

“We want to let survivors know that there are social service agencies that care for them and provide them services if and when they are ready to leave,Bryttani Debro, Anti-Human Trafficking Coordinator with the Salvation Army said.

她赢得了 B.A. 在Sociology-Criminology 2013年从艺术学院毕业 & newbb电子平台理学院, followed by a Master of Public Administration in 2016, and she and will be completing her second master’s, 社会工作, 2020年5月. She currently volunteers as the Volunteer Coordinator with the Tussing Elementary PTO and is completing her Master of Social Work internship with the Homeless Families Foundation.

• 在LinkedIn上与Debro联系.

“I live passionately everyday finding for the marginalized population whose voice is not heard,” she said in a 2017 story about her work.

将观点带入课堂

2017年，她访问了 Dr. 妮可·考夫曼的 SOC 3600 class to talk about human trafficking.

“It is important for students to learn about victimization and crime trends from many perspectives,考夫曼说. “夫人. Debro allowed students to learn about the responses to human trafficking in Ohio from the perspective of someone working in advocacy in the social service sector, and advocates and service providers do not always have the same focus or priorities as law enforcement. 夫人. Debro could also introduce students to what it looks like to build a career in this field after OHIO, based on studies in multiple disciplines (including sociology and policy).”

在俄亥俄, she was involved on campus with the Sociology Criminology club, newbb电子平台 Homecoming Steering Committee, and the Black Student Culture Programming Board.

She also volunteered at Scioto Juvenile Detention Center, developing her own class with the young women and visiting them bi-weekly and My Sisters Place Domestic Violence shelter.

她在俄亥俄州的经历

“My educational experience at newbb电子平台 helped me professionally by teaching me the importance of the relationships. newbb电子平台 is a small campus academically and there were several times were I had professors that knew me before I knew them based off of the positive relationships I built with other professors,德布罗说, who expressed excitement when discussing the MPA program and its helpfulness to her current position.

“在专业领域, building and maintaining relationships is key when working in social services and wanting to provide services to victims and survivors because not one agency can do it all.”

”也, fun fact about me when President Obama came to visit OHIO, 我在他身后的人群中喊道, “我爱你，巴拉克,他说, “我也爱你.’”上面的视频从1点20分开始.