I learned about the sex trafficking of minors in the United States while serving as an active duty military officer. I was heartbroken to learn that while I was serving my county, supporting peacetime and wartime operations overseas, another war was raging at home. The casualties – countless American children. Every day, American children are […]
One Small Business Type We Should Let Die
Guest Author: Tomas Perez, Founder & CEO of The EPIK Project I’m a coffee snob. Living and working near Portland, Oregon it’s delightfully easy to become one. Sadly, many small businesses like local coffee shops are facing extinction in the face of COVID-19. Thankfully, communities across the country are acutely aware of the threat to their favorite […]
Space, Time, and the Covid-19 Continuum: Effects on the Exploited
By Kathy Bryan This pandemic that has turned our world upside down is having particular impact on vulnerable and at-risk populations. As the Director of Elevate Academy, I work with a client base of over 600 trafficking survivors. We are receiving daily, desperate communications with the most prevalent issue being significant financial problems due to […]
Renting Lacy Reveals Reality: A Student’s Perspective
I was assignment to read Renting Lacy for a class on human trafficking at my university. Renting Lacy was a required book for the course. Though it was a quick read, it was notably substantive. Renting Lacy is a fictional, yet reality-based story founded upon the biographies of the unfortunate lives that are involved in […]
You Don’t Always Get to See the Seed Sprout
By Butch and Jean Fitzpatrick As Ambassadors of Hope, we spend time proactively communicating, giving out resources, sharing about DMST and the work of Shared Hope International, and make ourselves available for prevention and awareness but we don’t always get to see the seeds we plant sprout into action. In September 2018 we spent time […]
