BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto –
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Sokoto Zonal Command in collaboration with Access to Justice Project For the Vulnerable Children and Children on the Move with support from European Union, have flagged off a 2 day capacity building for security personnel in the state.
The workshop which has in attendance protection officers from Sokoto North and Illela LGAs of Sokoto State is geared towards, “victims identification and reintegration of trafficked and vulnerable children by child protection officers”.
In his address, the Sokoto Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, Abubakar Abdullahi Tabara, said protecting children from trafficking is a responsibility for all.
Mr. Tabara note that participants who are security personnel from the various agencies were carefully drawn from the two local government of Illela and Sokoto South to help equip them with better understanding of how to approach cases of trafficked and vulnerable children.
He urged security personnel to be passionate and to always employ humanity when dealing with cases of human trafficking.
A resource persons from NEEM Foundation, Mr Joseph Julius, while delivering a lecture on “Case Management”, appealed to all stakeholders to take positive action towards preventing Gender Based Violence (GBV) in their respective societies.
Mr. Julius urged security personnel to alway see themselves as social workers and strive to understand the dynamics of case management, so to be able to profer solutions.
According to him, case management entails a process of assisting individuals, their family or relative through direct support and or referral to other needed services with the aim of achieving the desired goals.
He further listed the components of case management to include – Identification and registration, to initiate and conduct full assessment, case planning, implementation of case planning to follow up and case review before arriving at case closure.
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