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Into The Light Licenses Interactive Virtual Reality Training
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Into The Light Licenses Interactive Virtual Reality Training

Arkansas Anti-Trafficking Organization Joins Forces with Radical Empathy to Allow their Communities to Experience Human Trafficking Education in Interactive Virtual Reality By: Radical Empathy Education Foundation Arkansas – December, 2022 – Gretchen Smeltzer knew that her community would be able to connect with the young girl she has just spent 20 minutes with in a…

Opinion | Kids Know Books About Abuse Are Not Pornography. 'Moms' Should, Too.
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Opinion | Kids Know Books About Abuse Are Not Pornography. 'Moms' Should, Too.

 EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a good look at American “book burning” culture. Last year, a parent at a Virginia school board meeting stepped up to a microphone and read a passage from my book, “Sold.” The scene she chose to read, informed in part by my own experiences of sexual abuse, describes the sexual assault…

Former Loudoun Teacher Brings Awareness to Child Sex Trafficking | Education | loudounnow.com
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Former Loudoun Teacher Brings Awareness to Child Sex Trafficking | Education | loudounnow.com

Sydney Dunlap, a Loudoun County Public Schools teacher for 18 years, had heard the words, “child sex trafficking” before but didn’t know much about it until she stayed up one night unable to pull herself away from a movie based on a true story about it. “It showed kids hardly older than my students being…

January Proclaimed Human Trafficking Prevention Month in Morris County
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January Proclaimed Human Trafficking Prevention Month in Morris County

Published on January 25, 2023 Proclamation Presented to Mendham Township Resident Dr. Christine Blood Morris County’s Board of County Commissioners today proclaimed January 2023 Human Trafficking Prevention Month in Morris County to raise awareness of human trafficking and educate the public on how to identify and prevent this crime. During the Board’s public work session…

Advocates, law enforcement push to educate public on human trafficking as response efforts evolve
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Advocates, law enforcement push to educate public on human trafficking as response efforts evolve

Kuykendall shared her story at a Bay Area human trafficking awareness and prevention event hosted by the Houston Airport System Nov. 4, part of renewed efforts by activists and law enforcement agencies to amplify signs of the crime and methods for preventing it. Human trafficking is the exploitation of individuals for forced labor or sex…

Human Trafficking: Pathways to Prevention
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Human Trafficking: Pathways to Prevention

Recently, we participated in this online meeting. Here’s everything we received! Hope it’s useful for you. Friends, Thank you for your interest in Human Trafficking: Pathways to Prevention. This event was co-led by the HHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (HHS Partnership Center) and the Office of Trafficking in Persons within the Administration for Children and Families (contact info…

The Silenced Minority: Sex Trafficking of Males
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The Silenced Minority: Sex Trafficking of Males

Originally published on the Human Trafficking Institute’s website by Emma Bykerk | Feb 11, 2022 Introduction In 1998, President Bill Clinton stated that his administration was “committed to combatting trafficking in women and girls.”[i] Two years later, he signed into law the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA).[ii] Although the TVPA was a huge milestone in the anti-human-trafficking movement,[iii] its enactment was motivated by a singular focus…