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Social Media Liability: How to Protect Children from a New Avenue of Exploitation
A post collectively written by the Shared Hope staff: Social media, now more than ever before, has become a constant in young adolescents lives. According to one study conducted in 2025, nearly...
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St. Nicholas: Patron saint for people caught in sex trafficking
By Stephen Padre Today, December 6, is the feast day of St. Nicholas. He was the Bishop of Myra, which is part of modern-day Turkey, and lived from 270 to 343. While...
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A whole lot more than rescues: Our sound approach to sex trafficking
Shared Hope International’s Founder and President, Linda Smith, speaks about our work as restoration-focused in the U.S., not in overseas rescues. Thanks once again to Hollywood, America added a new character this...
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Fact Sheet: Protecting Trafficking Survivors from Unjust Criminalization
[vc_column_text css=”Updated 2/21/2025 It is commonly known that unjust criminalization can be retraumatizing and creates an uneasy relationship between the survivor and the legal justice system. However, many state and federal laws...
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Too Old For the System, But Not for Exploitation: Foster Youth “Aging Out” of Foster Care Expands Vulnerabilities to Commercial Sexual Exploitation
By: Camryn Peterson, Advocacy Manager To truly end child and youth sex trafficking, we must not turn a blind eye to the systems that overlap with commercial sexual exploitation of children. As...
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