With the school year already in progress in some parts of the country and others that will be opening their doors next week, our team of volunteers have been working to get the word out to schools all across America in hopes that educators will incorporate a human trafficking prevention curriculum into their lesson plans for the 2015 school year. To date a NEST curriculum has been implemented in 40 of the 50 United States. This is an exceptional feat and praise is due to the writers of the quality programs that have been created with one goal in mind — preventing more victims of human trafficking.

If you have not yet had a chance to review the exceptional curriculum and additional resources that are provided on the charts on the NEST website we encourage you to take time to do so. And please share the site with your colleagues and other educators you may know across the country.

We will continue to add curriculum and other resources that help educators best help students. Maybe yours can be the next success story that we post on the website. Here is a recent one from the “Tell Your Friends” program by Fair Girls:

FAIR GIRLS: Tell Your Friends

We were teaching at a middle school with 7th and 8th graders. The students were loud and talkative, especially one girl, *Maya, who was about 11 years old. Maya continued to blame the victim in the Trip Uptown Story and she said “Some girls get raped because they are asking for it”. This type of backlash is nothing new; however, this time we were hearing it from a girl who was barely 80 lbs. and the only 6th grader in our class. The next day, at the end of module 4, Maya slipped us a note telling us she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend when she was 6. We made a report with Maya and notified the counselor. Maya started seeing the school counselor regularly.

We look forward to helping you help your students!