Tammy Sneed is the Director of Gender Responsive Adolescent Services for Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families (DCF), Division of Adolescent and Juvenile Justice Services. As a national expert with more than 25 years’ experience in programming for adolescent girls, she specializes in programming for youth in the legal system. She has developed and implemented a training model educating local and State police departments on how to work with adolescent girls with a focus on trauma; the implementation of the model resulted in significant arrest reductions. As the lead of the Girls' Provider Network, she has led DCF in the development of a set of program guidelines to assist providers in working with adolescent girls. A foster/adoptive mother, she has developed specialized training for mentors as well as foster and adoptive parents, and served as a mentor for forever families parenting adolescent girls. Over the last several years, Ms. Sneed has focused her efforts on the commercial sexual exploitation of children and domestic minor sex trafficking. She directs Connecticut’s Human Anti-Trafficking Response Team, which is focused on a coordinated and collaborative response to eradicate child trafficking. Ms. Sneed co-leads the Governor's Task Force on Justice for Abused Children, which oversees 17 multidisciplinary teams and Children's Advocacy Centers across Connecticut charged with investigating and responding to cases involving the severe physical and sexual abuse of children.

Ms. Snow is a nationally recognized subject matter expert in trauma-informed sex trafficking identification, multidisciplinary response, and survivor services. She is the Child Sex Trafficking Program Specialist for NCMEC. In her current role, she leads the victim services recovery planning initiative for missing children exploited through child sex trafficking. Ms. Snow is the former Director of the Anti-Trafficking Program for TurnAround, Inc. (2011–13). The program works with State agencies, law enforcement, and community organizations to provide emergency response and specialized, comprehensive care for survivors of sex trafficking. During her time as the Director, she established a partnership with the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, which implemented a child sex trafficking screening tool for flagging and responding to high-risk youth. Ms. Snow is the former Director of Programs for Shared Hope International (2004–11). In 2006, she began directing a 3-year research project on child sex trafficking in 10 U.S. locations, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice. This research was compiled into the National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children, released in July 2009. Ms. Snow was also the primary author of INTERVENE: Identifying and Responding to America’s Prostituted Youth. This two-part resource provides first responders with a practitioner’s training guide on developing an assessment tool for trauma-informed and strengths-based identification of youth who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation.

Charmaine Brittain is the Director of Organizational Development at the Butler Institute for Families. She has worked extensively over the past two decades to improve organizational effectiveness and strengthen professional education for child welfare workers. At the Butler Institute for Families, she serves as lead on workforce projects, consults with child welfare agencies on organizational development, writes curricula on a range of topics, and develops professional educational materials used throughout the country. Dr. Brittain’s expertise on the implementation and use of Learning Circles has led to her having consulted on the development and implementation of Learning Circle projects in several states. Multiple states have adopted or adapted the supervisor core training, Putting the Pieces Together: Supervisor Core Curriculum, for which she was an editor/author. In 2011, Dr. Brittain was honored with the Distinguished Service in Training award from the National Staff Development and Training Association. She is the co-editor/editor and contributing author for three books published by Oxford University Press: Child Welfare Supervision (2009), co-editor with Cathryn Potter; Helping in Child Protective Services (2004); and Understanding the Medical Diagnosis of Child Abuse and Neglect (2006).

Ms. Nastasi is a recent high school graduate who advocates for survivors of human trafficking and sexual assault through public speaking and digital storytelling. She is a survivor of child sex trafficking and has since used her experiences to personally connect with other survivors as well as train law enforcement professionals on how to most effectively approach and address the needs of survivors. Last year, she leveraged her expertise by developing a digital story for the Capacity Building Center for States to train child welfare workers on trauma-informed approaches to identify and empower survivors. Ms. Nastasi will be attending Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, with more than $20,000 in scholarships to study marine biology and recreational therapy. She aspires to become a recreational therapist for women and children with post-traumatic stress disorder, ultimately using dolphin-assisted animal therapy—another outlet that she believes would be beneficial for survivors of abuse. Ms. Nastasi plans to continue advocating for survivors of human trafficking throughout her upcoming college years.