TxSSC
Child Trafficking in Your Texas Community
Video Length | 47:39
Recorded | January 2023
Podcast Description
In this Learning Lab episode, host Celina Bley sits down with Debbie Solcher from Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas and Janet Kasper from the Office of the Texas Governor's Child Sex Trafficking Team to discuss child trafficking. The trio cover the types and warning signs of child trafficking, who is at risk for being trafficked, prevention efforts for parents and schools, and resources aimed at preventing trafficking and supporting those who are being trafficked.
Expert Guests
Debbie Solcher
Debbie has a B.S. in Criminal Justice, an M.S.E. in Educational Leadership, and holds a Texas Teaching
Certificate in Special Education. She started her career in the juvenile justice system and has an extensive
background in private school education. Debbie is an ACE's Master Trainer, CSE-IT ...Trainer, True Colors Trainer,
and has experience leading teams in Restorative Practices. She is a former member of the Office of the
Governor's Child Sex Trafficking Team
and is currently a Program Manager at the Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas, serving as a subject
matter expert on care coordination efforts around commercially sexually
exploited children and youth. She provides support and technical assistance, aid in strategic policy
development, and training to internal and external stakeholders.
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Janet Kasper
Janet Kasper leads the Texas Governor's Child Sex Trafficking Team to coordinate statewide efforts to
prevent
child sex trafficking and to coordinate state and local stakeholders to recognize, recover, support healing and
bring justice for children and transition age youth who have experienced ...commercial sexual exploitation.
Prior to joining the Child Sex Trafficking Team, Janet held the roles of the director of a drop-in
center for
youth and young adults experiencing homelessness, as the social services director of an emergency shelter for
adults and families experiencing homelessness, as a Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
conservatorship worker, and most recently as a crisis rehab counselor in a psychiatric emergency inpatient
treatment center. Janet received a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Houston-Downtown and is
currently enrolled in the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston where she is pursuing a
Master of Social Work with a clinical concentration.
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Learning Lab Host
Celina Bley, Ph.D.
Dr. Celina Bley is the Associate Director of Training and Education at the Texas School Safety Center, located
at Texas State University. She started at the Center in February 2019 and brings with her 18 years of district
administrator experience in the Central Texas... area. She began in
the field as a Communications Director and
worked her way up to Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations which included school safety for a 6A
District. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Education in the field of Adult, Professional and Community
Education from Texas State University. Dr. Bley received her Master of Arts in Adult and Developmental
Education
and her Bachelor of Arts in German.
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Podcast Produced By: Brian Clason, Program Manager of Curriculum & Instruction