Women who are leaving human trafficking.... There are definitely similarities, but there are a lot of differences as well. A woman who's coming into the shelter because of an intimate partner relationship is leaving, typically, one abuser. There might be some abuse coming from extended family on that side. However, when a woman is leaving a human trafficking situation, she has more than one abuser to worry about. She has deep trauma. Quite often, these women are leaving situations where they've been abused for their entire lives, from childhood onward. There are further psychological impacts that go along with that than there are for a typical woman coming in for a typical shelter stay.
I think what these women need is time, as well. I think two years, minimum, is something that's going to help a woman be able to rebuild her life. She's leaving a very traumatic situation. She needs something. She needs to be able to rebuild from the ground up.