Our speaker this week will be Dr. Shantell Cruz-Leon
Dr. S.H. Cruz Leon, DHSc., MFT is an experienced educator, facilitator, integrative health/mental care professional specializing in complex traumas emphasis on sexual traumas/disorders. She is the driving force behind Haynes Harbour, Inc. and fills the Executive Director/President role. Her present focus is to disrupt the demand/supply cycle of vulnerable populace who are trafficked, to provide adequate and prompt safe harbors for trafficked victims/survivors; to provide complex trauma focus therapy for victim/survivors, to identify and treat vicarious trauma experienced by first responders; health/mental health practitioners, and direct service providers by incorporating evidence-based therapeutic modalities; and to improve rapid rescues and resources for those who are trafficked. She is a Rotarian with the Hallandale-Aventura chapter where she spreads education and awareness regarding human (sex) trafficking as well as engaging in local/global humanitarian services to advance goodwill and peace around the world. She is volunteer advocate with the City of Miami PD victims’ crime unit, and a member of the Broward Human Trafficking Coalition/STARS sub-committee.
Subject Focus: Project RESTLESS: Rapid Rescue, and Response to the Exploitation and Sexual Trafficking of minors through Literacy, Education, Social service support and access to confidential Safe harbors