
Baltimore Schweitzer Fellows Jessica Ton and Jordan Ambrose held a domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) awareness event on Nov. 11.
Since the start of their Fellowship year, Jordan Ambrose and Jessica Ton have been working to develop SafeStart — a program aimed at empowering young victims of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) to help them develop healthy lifestyles and re-enter society with a better outlook for their future.
Sadly, programs like SafeStart are sorely needed in Baltimore, where sex trafficking — as brought to light by the tragic case of Shaniya Davis – “is prevalent enough in Maryland that there is a state task force assembled to address the issue.” (WBAL-TV Baltimore)
Last week, these two Baltimore Schweitzer Fellows (both students at University of Maryland, Baltimore Medical School) held a dinner aimed at raising awareness of DMST, along with a university-wide clothing/toiletry drive.
According to Ambrose and Ton, who have partnered with YANA Place to implement their project, “the program for the dinner consisted of a brief introduction to the topic of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST), followed by a question and answer session from a panel of trafficking experts from the fields of law, immigration and customs, and social work.”
Additionally, two DMST survivors shared their powerful stories with the audience of more than 75 students hailing from the University of Baltimore, Maryland’s medical, dental, pharmacy, law, nursing, and social work schools.




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comprehensive Hepatitis B Initiative at the Pacific Free Clinic in East San Jose. They worked with the Asian Liver Center at Stanford to provide free hepatitis B testing, vaccination, treatment and education for all Asian and Pacific Islanders in East San Jose who had low incomes, no insurance, and low English proficiency. Open only on Saturdays, this clinic saw approximately 500 patients from the time it was opened in July, 2007 to the end of the Fellowship year in April 2008. It has continued operation under the direction of other Stanford students and a number of dedicated volunteers. Lin is now a fourth-year medical student at Stanford School of Medicine.
Additionally, longtime ASF Board Member – and plenary speaker at ASF’s 3rd Annual Fellows for Life Conference—Robert S. Lawrence, MD, has been awarded the 