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TraCCC's Curriculum Development Projects
Anti-Trafficking Curriculum for Russian Government Officials
Curriculum Development for the U.S. Border Patrol Academy
Anti-Trafficking Curriculum Development
Project
In 2005, TraCCC received a grant from the U.S. Department of
State to develop a human trafficking awareness training curriculum
for local and regional Russian government officials. TraCCC in
partnership with its academic and NGO colleagues in four regions
of Russia have created a training manual based on actual trafficking
cases in the Russian Federation and relevant Articles in the
Russian Criminal Code. In 2006, this manual was utilized in trainings
for representatives of the local government, NGO and academic
communities that were held in the cities of Saratov, Irkutsk,
Vladivostok and Moscow. During Spring 2007, trainings were held
in Smolensk, Chelyabinsk, Stavropol, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok,
Ussurisk, Nakhodka, Irkutsk, and Moscow.
As part of this project, in order to provide access to the anti-trafficking
training materials to a wider audience than was reached during
the course of the training activities, as well as access beyond
the project end-date, TraCCC and its Russian partners established an Online Resource
Center. This website is maintained by our partners in Saratov
and hosted by the Saratov State Academy of Law. The website provides
access to all of TraCCC's Russian-language training materials, guidelines
for practitioners wishing to conduct regional trainings, and
relevant and updated research on human trafficking in Russia
and other countries. The website may be viewed at http://sartraffic.sgap.ru.
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Border Patrol Academy Curriculum Project
The US Border Patrol Academy (BPA) trains nearly 2,000 new agents
each year and is responsible for addressing the advanced training
needs of more than 8,000 agents now in the field. New agents
must complete a rigorous 19-week training program that includes
courses in Immigration and Nationality law, criminal law and
statutory authority, behavioral science, intensive Spanish, Border
Patrol operations, care and use of firearms, physical training
and motor vehicle operation.
In 2001, TraCCC and its partner, the Academic Consortium for
Global Education (ACGE), built a collaborative project team from
both organizations and senior instructors from the BPA to revise
and update the content and instructional mechanisms of the BPA's
law courses. In 2003, the Spanish department at the Academy approached
the project team to apply the same treatment to their course
offerings. The amount of material that TraCCC and its project
team is addressing is more than significant. For example, the
Spanish curriculum involves daily coursework for 19 weeks for
a total of well over 200 hours of instruction. TraCCC and its
partners restructured the courses to a case-based, student-oriented
training regimen that is more attuned to the professional requirements
of agents in the field, and have updated the curricula to reflect
such important changes like the PATRIOT Act and the Border Patrol's
transition to the Department of Homeland Security.
TraCCC completed two law courses at the end of 2005 and completed
the Spanish-language component of the project in 2006.
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