Braking Traffik

Braking Traffik is an Anti-Trafficking Survivor Service Program.

Human trafficking talk: 'Tonight was a great experience' – The Quad City Times
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Human trafficking talk: 'Tonight was a great experience' – The Quad City Times

Olivia Allen More Quad-Citians are learning about human trafficking, courtesy of those tracking it. Chase Mason, a sophomore accounting major, said he attended this week’s trafficking presentation at St. Ambrose University in Davenport to educate himself. “The opportunity to learn and develop some experience and knowledge in this area (human trafficking) is important,” he said….

Human trafficking talk: ‘Tonight was a great experience’
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Human trafficking talk: ‘Tonight was a great experience’

Olivia Allen More Quad-Citians are learning about human trafficking, courtesy of those tracking it. Chase Mason, a sophomore accounting major, said he attended this week’s trafficking presentation at St. Ambrose University in Davenport to educate himself. “The opportunity to learn and develop some experience and knowledge in this area (human trafficking) is important,” he said….

‘It took me 18 years to heal’ | Human trafficking survivor says her experience helps her inspire other victims
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‘It took me 18 years to heal’ | Human trafficking survivor says her experience helps her inspire other victims

Since 2016, Braking Traffik has helped over 690 human trafficking survivors in the Quad Cities. DAVENPORT, Iowa — In 2021, over 10,000 cases of human trafficking were reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline. Sara K. is on a mission to help spread awareness of human trafficking. “That’s what wakes me up every morning,” she…

Pieper Lewis’s Sentencing Places Spotlight on Need for Legislation
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Pieper Lewis’s Sentencing Places Spotlight on Need for Legislation

NAHT Asks For Your Help Once Annually on November 29th On November 29th, the annual GivingTuesday global fundraising campaign will be launched. This is a huge effort to promote donations to nonprofits such as the NAHT. Grassroots donors gave nearly $2 billion worldwide on GivingTuesday in 2021. We hope to inspire you to go to…

Multiple stories: Six Iowa and Nebraska Trafficked Adolescents Freed in FBI Operation, Without Sex Buyers…, Online Grooming Training, more
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Multiple stories: Six Iowa and Nebraska Trafficked Adolescents Freed in FBI Operation, Without Sex Buyers…, Online Grooming Training, more

Six Iowa and Nebraska Trafficked Adolescents Freed in FBI Operation Six adolescents in Iowa and Nebraska are safe following a recent human trafficking investigation. Federal, state and local police in Iowa and Nebraska freed the children as part of a nationwide law enforcement campaign dubbed “Operation Cross Country,” according to a statement from the FBI’s…

Trafficking Billboards Going Up in Iowa and Freedom Truck at State Fair
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Trafficking Billboards Going Up in Iowa and Freedom Truck at State Fair

Trafficking Billboards Going Up in Iowa and Freedom Truck at State Fair The new Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) Enforcement Sergeant, Jared Arbegast, joined the Iowa NAHT Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday, July 12th to give an update on the anti-trafficking awareness and training being carried out by the DOT and Truckers Against Trafficking…

15-year-old Girl Snatched from Basketball Game and Trafficked to Another State
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15-year-old Girl Snatched from Basketball Game and Trafficked to Another State

Click a link below to jump to a particular article or scroll down to read the whole blog post. Local and regional IA coalition updates Thanks to hotel employees, missing girl found, and Michigan man charged with trafficking Labor trafficking case exposes farmworker abuses Why the average

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Special Edition: 2022 Iowa Anti-Trafficking Heroes
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Special Edition: 2022 Iowa Anti-Trafficking Heroes

2022 Iowa Outstanding Service Awards The Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking and Slavery recently presented five 2022 Outstanding Iowa Anti-Trafficking Service Awards. The presentations took place at the Rotunda of the Iowa State Capitol Building in Des Moines, Iowa. I was honored to stand at the podium to read the tribute to each outstanding honoree….