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Foster Care
Questioning our assumptions about child labor
This blog is republished with permission from Freedom United It’s the time of year again when emotive and resolute messages …
Trafficking Victims of Color: Failed by the U.S. legal system?
*All names have been changed to protect anonymity Emma just wanted to stay sober and after struggling for years with …
Cultural Considerations in Assisting Survivors of Human Trafficking: A Free E-Course
A free, interactive, web-based course on cultural considerations when assisting survivors of human trafficking. The course explores how cross-cultural differences …
Is it Slavery? Cultural Competence versus Cultural Relativism
William is a 14-year-old orphan from Uganda. After his parents died, his mother’s relatives took him in to live with …
What Can Be Done to Prevent Sex Trafficking of Girls in Foster Care?
Protecting our kids from perilous exploitation in sex trafficking is an urgent concern of child protective and child welfare agencies. …
The Opioid Epidemic, Foster Care, and Human Trafficking
As detailed in our interview with Dr. Hanni Stoklosa, the opiate/opioid crisis interacts with human trafficking in a number of …
The Foster Care-Human Trafficking Nexus
January 16, 2018 In the United States, January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. In support of this …
Take Action Now: What You Can Do to Protect Foster Youth from Trafficking
Given that most states failed the report card, it is imperative that state and national policy makers do more to protect foster youth from the threat of being trafficked. However, they will likely do nothing without you telling them that this issue is important to you.
Part 4: Recommendations to Protect Foster Children from Trafficking
More needs to be done to protect foster care youth from trafficking and exploitation. This blog presents several recommendations for states, as well as for national policy and child welfare agencies.
The Best and Worst States in Protecting Foster Youth from Being Trafficked
Human Trafficking Search recently published a state-by-state report card examining the link between foster care and human trafficking across states. This blog examines which states did best and which were graded worst.