Tips for Safe Travels

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Public transportation can be a great solution if you can’t drive, don’t have access to a car, can’t pay for gas, or don’t have parking. Even more importantly, if you or your ride are too buzzed and need to get home, getting an Uber instead of driving or walking could save your life. But ridesharing … Read more

Beware the Dangers of Social Media Apps

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Today, there are thousands of apps to help with every activity imaginable. This includes tons of social apps that each have unique benefits—but these features also come with unique risks. A study by Thorn reported that the majority of minors who were sex trafficking survivors in or after 2015 reported first encountering their trafficker through … Read more

A Letter to Teens

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I hope this message of “You are FOREVER Priceless” touches you deeply. I hope that you can hear it, live it, and spread it. The world you have to navigate in is filled with mixed messages and complex events. You have inherent worth and dignity. Your body is yours, and it is not meant for … Read more

Watch Out for the 5 Types of Traffickers

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Guerrilla Style Uses threats, force, and coercion with victims. Victims are kidnapped or trapped quickly, and their lives or the lives of their loved ones are threatened. The victim is pressured into work quickly and physically forced into submission; she may be drugged. If the victim is rescued, it is easier to break her from … Read more

How to Get Help If You Are Being Trafficked

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If someone is forcing you, coercing you, or manipulating you to perform sex acts in exchange for money, food, a place to stay, or because you “owe them,” please know this is illegal and is a crime! It could be a pimp/madam (trafficker) or anyone. If you have run away or are homeless, please know you do … Read more