I weighed less than 90 pounds the first time I was sold for sex. 2020 Trafficking Awareness Looking back, I can see that I was a little girl in many ways. Physically, I was small. I was very immature, socially. I was groomed for prostitution by my...
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Once aware, what should be our human trafficking response? Human Trafficking Human trafficking is an umbrella term for a set of human rights violations. Namely, the crime involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or...
Who is vulnerable to human trafficking? Vulnerability There are a number of factors which make people vulnerable to abuses of all kinds, particularly human trafficking. The most obvious is youth. Young children don't know what they don't know. They can be used and abused and not know...
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...