Community Outreach

Community outreach is the process of engaging with members of a specific community to provide information, resources, and services. This can include activities such as hosting events, distributing materials, and providing assistance with specific needs. Community outreach is often focused on addressing specific issues or challenges that affect the community, such as health care, education, or public safety. The goal of community outreach is to improve the quality of life for members of the community and to build stronger, more connected communities.

 

 

Tarrant County 5 Stones November 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones November 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our November 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this November consisted of some law enforcement updates, a year-end review, and an awards presentation celebrating some of our amazing community influencers. Link to the recorded meeting: The chat log is how our online audience is able to introduce…

Tarrant County 5 Stones September 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones September 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our September 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this September consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Carrie Grace, Executive Director of Freedom Shield Foundation, as she discussed the importance of self-care and avoiding burnout as service providers. Link to the recorded meeting: https://youtu.be/5OzWyCSuUHw…

Human trafficking survivors share powerful stories during Nampa awareness event
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Human trafficking survivors share powerful stories during Nampa awareness event

Well-known child safety activist Elizabeth Smart, local survivors and law enforcement talked to hundreds of people about the epidemic. BOISE, Idaho — The Nampa Civic Center was packed on Wednesday night as several hundred people listened to Elizabeth Smart, local survivors, and a detective talk about the human trafficking epidemic. “It’s happening here in Nampa,…

Tarrant County 5 Stones August 2023 Meeting
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Tarrant County 5 Stones August 2023 Meeting

Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our August 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this August consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Sonya Brooks, Unbound Now Director of Youth Prevention, as she discussed implementation of the HTYPE prevention education grant at FWISD. Link to the recorded meeting: https://youtu.be/Q-w6I3RxUgQ Presentation:…

Jessie’s Place director: ‘Human trafficking in Citrus County is not like the movies’
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Jessie’s Place director: ‘Human trafficking in Citrus County is not like the movies’

  As of July 24, the movie “Sound of Freedom” has sold more than 8.9 million tickets and grossed just over $14.2 million on its opening weekend – and moviegoers are exiting the theaters with a passion to spread awareness on child trafficking. Melissa Bowermaster, executive director of the Citrus County Children’s Advocacy Center (“Jessie’s…

Lake County Alliance Against Human Trafficking team hosts awareness event
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Lake County Alliance Against Human Trafficking team hosts awareness event

Jul. 22—Human trafficking awareness recently was put in the spotlight in Lake County in an effort to show how community members can help. The Alliance Against Human Trafficking team partnered with the General Federation of Women’s Clubs’ Eastlake Women’s Club, representatives of law enforcement and others for Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Bridging Recovery and…

Human Trafficking in Kenya: A Nonprofit Takes Aim
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Human Trafficking in Kenya: A Nonprofit Takes Aim

Imagine a seven-year-old girl, spending her days not in school, but cooking and cleaning for a family in a wealthy suburb. Or a young mother struggling to make ends meet, lured away from her children by an employment agency and forced into sex work abroad. For millions of people, this is a reality. Human trafficking…

At least one reported case of human trafficking in all Tennessee counties | Local News
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At least one reported case of human trafficking in all Tennessee counties | Local News

In 2022, there were 88 reports of sex trafficking in East Tennessee. Seven of these reports were from Cumberland County, according to Kevin Reagan, a special agent at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s human trafficking unit. “Numbers and statistics are hard to gather sometimes around this particular thing, because of the population, their demographics, under-reporting,…

Anti-human trafficking campaign uses Super Bowl to shed light on year-round problem
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Anti-human trafficking campaign uses Super Bowl to shed light on year-round problem

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — See something, say something. While we hear this all the time, it’s not always easy to spot the warning signs for human trafficking. There’s a new push to train people in the hospitality and tourism industry ahead of the super bowl coming to town. Since 2014, the campaign ‘It’s a Penalty’…

Lake County vigil raises awareness about human trafficking; ‘We need all hands on deck’
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Lake County vigil raises awareness about human trafficking; ‘We need all hands on deck’

People filled the Ray Bradbury Room of the Waukegan Public Library on a cold Monday night to show awareness and support at a Human Trafficking Awareness Candle Vigil event. The vigil included a collective statement as part of an acknowledgment of victims and survivors of human trafficking in a gesture timed with January’s Human Trafficking…