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Children: Victims Not Criminals
A bill sits on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk designed to address the sex trafficking of children in California. While many people have joined the cause to fight sex trafficking abroad, few realize...
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A Southwest Washington Girl was Rescued and Given Her Name Back
For four long years, Stephanie wasn’t even allowed to use her own name. She was only known by the name her trafficker gave her when he first enslaved her. She was only...
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Knowledge is Powerful and Helpful: How Trauma Can Impact Interviews of DMST
By Iona Rudisill, Baltimore Child Abuse Center Trafficking of youth has been occurring for decades and centuries. Regardless of the Emancipation Proclamation being enacted in 1863, the reality is slavery never stopped. ...
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5 Things I Learned Doing Standup
Copyrighted Content © By Marti MacGibbon, CADC-II, ACRPS Here’s something I learned from years of performing standup in clubs, colleges, auditoriums, and a federal penitentiary: Standup is metaphor for life. It’s tough, thrilling,...
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“Church” Controlled Human Trafficking
By Mary Knight, MSW About the creator: Mary Knight, Filmmaker and Survivor reveals the role a church played in her trafficking as a young girl. This blog post was originally part of...
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