There are many ways to help human trafficking victims. Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Pro-life pregnancy centers help women and families every day. Some of those clients are human trafficking victims, hidden in plain sight. The unidentified or misidentified "difficult" clients may be exhibiting responses to complex trauma. That...
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month January 11th is international human trafficking awareness day! In honor of victims, with great respect for survivors, and to the equipping of advocates we have decided to post one module of the video portion of the program every day through...
Helping Clients By learning about responding to human trafficking, centers can help those who might be misidentified as "difficult clients."Helping clients is what pregnancy resource centers are all about. I know that. Staff and volunteers at pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes are my heroes. Sidewalk...
Human Trafficking Awareness Month January is human trafficking awareness month. January 11th is international human trafficking awareness day! In honor of victims, with great respect for survivors, and to the equipping of advocates we have decided to post one module of the video portion of the...
Responding to Human Trafficking for Pregnancy Centers can be stressful. The very thought of it is way off the radar for some staff and volunteers. Many people thing human trafficking happens "over there" someplace over seas. But human trafficking happens here domestically. How to Respond I created...
Winning Wednesday? What does it mean to win? Winning If you have ever been involved in politics or campaigns or even vote, you might experience the barrage of calls, texts and emails that candidates and political parties send night and day. They all want to win. I...
The day after the post from June 26th, 2019, I got a call that turned the world upside down. The next day I had just finished a glass of wine after work, when I got a call. The woman on the other end of the phone asked...
First, don't be afraid of life. Not So Easy It may be easy to say, "First, don't be afraid of life." But it is not easy to control fear of the unknown. Even if you have a steady job and a healthy family, life is full of...
I have written about this so many times, but really, Can we please stop funding abortion. State Budgets Federal tax money is still flowing to Planned Parenthood by the multiplied millions of dollars. They basically "launder" the money back to the politicians, in many cases. It is...
What I learned from a young street musician was really that which came about by reflecting on the event. Asheville Art Galleries My granddaughter and I were visiting art galleries in Asheville, North Carolina. She was enthralled with the various mediums and was especially drawn to the...