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300,000 children and adults are being held against their will in the United States. Your help could bring one home. Please check our pages for easy ways you can help.
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New training available for healthcare professionals
Online training available for those in the healthcare field to help identify and give assistance to human trafficking victims
BE AWARE
Learn about human trafficking, labor bondage, and child abuse. You need to understand the situation to be able to help.
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THINGS TO DO
Ready to help. Here are some things you can do to become involved and to help bring these human injustices to an end.
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RESOURCES
Looking for information? Lot’s of things can be found in these articles, from hotline numbers to handouts to reading material to online aids for children.
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How sexual predators groom their victims
Child predators are often known to or related to the child’s parents and through a slow, supposedly “caring” process, often avoid suspicion.
How teachers can prevent child abuse
With reports of child abuse on the rise during the pandemic, Congressman Anthony Gonzalez is cosponsoring a bill to help protect those most vulnerable.
How many federal agencies does it take to…
Would you believe there are 17 federal agencies combatting human trafficking? Does that seem like enough? too many?
Human trafficking in your home – could it be?
When you child may be spending more time online during the COVID-19 outbreak, you need to take a different parenting style. Here are some useful tips.
Human trafficking may not look like you think
Another story of a wonderfully loving relationship that ends with the victim being forced into prostitution. Luckily this one escaped.
Child “trafficking” into New York City during coronavirus pandemic
Why in the hell would ICE agents relocated immigrant children into New York City during the height of the pandemic. Maybe you should ask your congressmen. I certainly will.
Covid-19 threatens sex workers and buyers
Forced to continue work during the coronavirus epidemic, sex slaves are likely to both catch and transmit the disease.
Can government funding stop human trafficking?
With more than 69 million images of exploited and abused children found online last year, Ohio Congressman Anthony Gonzalez has introduced legislation to increase funding and to require more aggressive investigation.
Break the chain, with an evening of fashion – “Unchained”
Join an evening of fashion and education as this Ohio State University team shines a light on the evils of Human Trafficking – free admittance.
How sex traffickers gradually groom their victims
Child sex traffickers can take years developing a relationship with your child, grooming them to eventually take them away and into the sex trade. Learn their secrets first – while there’s time to do something about it.
10 Ways You Can Help End Trafficking
People are quick to say – “what can I do to Stop Human Trafficking”? Well, here are 10 tips to get you started.
If Santa is bringing cellphones, read this first
Is it smart to give a smartphone to a child for Christmas – take 60 seconds to check out these few tips.
Tell Congress to support efforts to end child exploitation
Congress needs to appropriate more funds to end the exploitation of children via the Internet. Read this and then contact your Congressman.
If a 14-year-old can help trafficking victims – why can’t you?
Why is it that we can be shown up by the younger generation, time after time? With limited resources, but a heart of gold, this young lady is taking up cause after cause, and seeing results. Jemima Robins, a student at Lynnfield Middle School, was selected by her...
Four simple ways you can talk with your teen about sexting
Young people are not known for evaluating future complications before hitting “Send” on their phone. If one of those is a “sext,” the problems could be devastating. “Sexting” is defined as sending (or receiving) full or partially nude photos. While the media...
Are you enough of a parent?
Many families have both parents working. No one is at home when the children get dropped off from the school bus. This means, for example, that the children are basically free to watch whatever content they want on TV, visit whatever websites they want, and talk to...
Two things you can do today to help trafficking victims
The photo below is specifically for Northeast Ohio residents, but no matter where you live, you can accomplish exactly the same as I've done. First - Be aware of the signs The Collaborative to End Human Trafficking has a great summary of the signs to look for so that...
Install an app – protect your children – sight unseen
Here’s an app that you can install on your child’s phone that will alert you to violence, mental health, cyberbullying, sexting, drug abuse & self-harm issues.
Simple protection for our children – make Facebook take action
Here’s a simple way to spend 60 seconds that will boost the chances of keeping a preditor from “meeting” you child on Facebook.
Age-appropriate ways to start having conversations about trafficking
One of the big complaints about talking to children is that "they are too young" for conversations about sex trafficking. While it may be true for some, it can't be used as a blanket excuse to just delay the inevitable. What if there was an easier way? Now there is....
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