3 results for tag: prevention education
New Tool to Stop Human Trafficking Equips Educators and Empowers Youth
What if no young people ever fell into the traps of human trafficking and sexual exploitation again? The team behind National Educators to Stop Trafficking believes that is possible, and they’ve created an incredible resource for educators and youth leaders to help make it happen.
Those most vulnerable to human trafficking are in our schools and youth organizations. In the United States, the average age of entry into sexual slavery is 13, and about 80% of sex buyers do so for the first time before age 25. Yet not many educators or youth leaders are equipped to teach their youth about this scourge, and the thought of creating a curriculum ...
Human Trafficking is Not the “New Kid on the Block” in Today’s List of Social Issues
When we think of the horrible crime of modern day slavery (human trafficking) we most always attribute it to the bad guys -- the pimps and the traffickers, right? However, there are many ways that we are all complicit in fueling today's #2 crime (#1 by some new reports) against humanity. I ran across this article not long ago and thought it to be full of content that we can all learn from and begin to understand some of the complexities of this issue. There is a tendency to separate human trafficking into 2 separate categories, sex and labor; however, sex trafficking almost always takes place in a labor trafficking scenario, as in the case in the ...
Virginia Abolition Conference – January 10-11, 2014
RJI’s first annual Virginia Abolition Conference is happening January 10-11, 2014, on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Jessica Sutton, Prevention Project Manager, will be speaking on Prevention Education during the conference. There will be sessions covering many different topics related to anti-human trafficking initiatives. The website for more information: http://richmondjusticeinitiative.com/virginia-abolition-conference-2014/