CAB General Information

Purpose

The Community Advisory Board (CAB) is a part of the Multnomah County's Sex Trafficking Collaborative. The CAB intends to bring together a diverse group of individual with lived commercial sexual exploitation/sex trafficking experience, and provide a meaningful opportunity for them to participate in the Sex Trafficking Collaborative's efforts. CAB is intended to be a place where members provide feedback and recommendations on their experience related to sex trafficking, services, and system support. Those recommendations will be used to improve housing, the criminal justice system, mental health services, sex trafficking awareness and prevention.

CAB will work alongside and provide feedback/insight to the executive team of the Multnomah County Sex Trafficking Collaborative, made up of different agencies and programs whose focus is increasing and improving services and support to victims and survivors of sex trafficking. Members include social service providers, elected County Commissioners, local law enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the Department of Community Justice, and the District Attorney’s office, among others.

To remove barriers to participation on CAB and promote equity, members are paid for their time and feedback.

Membership requirements

• Individuals who have experienced sex trafficking

• All genders are welcome and invited to participate

• Able to participate in monthly CAB meetings for six months or more

• Age 18 years and older

Logistics

• CAB meetings are:

  • held once a month in the evening

  • held virtually for the foreseeable future

  • composed of 8 members

• Time commitment

  • Meetings are 2 hours long each

  • The only meeting commitment CAB Members need to make is the monthly CAB meetings

    • CAB Members will have access to other meetings, but commitment only requires CAB meeting attendance

We welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, philosophies, beliefs, demographics, language capabilities.

While this is a County run effort and subject to public records requests, we will be taking extra precautions to maintain an individual’s privacy. This includes Member's signing a confidentiality agreement prior to being confirmed as a Member, and notes from meetings not including full names.