Health

Health-Related Referral Patterns Among Labor and Sex Trafficking Survivors in Los Angeles County, CA
Cast’s research has been published in the Journal of Human Trafficking! “Health-Related Referral Patterns Among Labor and Sex Trafficking Survivors in Los Angeles County, CA” takes a deep dive into...

Measuring the Impact of Services for Human Trafficking Survivors: Tracking Clinically Significant Improvement Across Outcomes
For years, success in survivor services has been measured in numbers—but do they truly reflect the reality of healing and progress? The Journal of Applied Social Science has published a...

Measuring the Impact of Cast Services Over Time
Human trafficking can have numerous lasting impacts on survivors’ lives. These include mental health impacts, such as depression and PTSD; physical health impacts, such as chronic pain, injuries, and exposure...

PTSD Among Human Trafficking Survivors in Community Case Management
Ethan Levine, Cast, and David Smith, Mercy Lab Foundation. Cast Briefing Note. (2023) Human trafficking can have long-term effects on survivors’ mental health. Additionally, many of the conditions that make...

Identification and Referral in Health Care Settings (2017)
Carolyn Liu Lumpkin, Cast and Adriana Taboada, Cast. (2017) Key findings from this survey confirm that human trafficking victims access health care services while they are being trafficked and that...