James S. Gordon, author of “The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma“, interviews Toni Bankston, a clinical social worker and Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)
James S. Gordon, author of “The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma”, interviews Toni Bankston, a clinical social worker and Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)
Imagine a girl from Bangladesh. Her family is destitute – floods have washed out their crops and her younger siblings …
Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Nationals can be victims of human trafficking in the United States. Foreign National victims of human trafficking may sometimes be living within the United States in an undocumented immigration status. To address the particular vulnerabilities of these victims, the Trafficking and Victims Protection Act creates certain immigration protections for foreign national trafficking victims so that they remain legally within the United States.
In the aftermath of the earthquakes in Nepal in April and May, social media was flooded with people raising money for various relief efforts, including children’s care homes, disaster relief operations, and volunteer assistance trips to child orphanages in Nepal. While well intentioned, many failed to realize the true impact their volunteering or donations to children’s care homes post-earthquake might have as child care homes in Nepal come under scrutiny for their possible links to child exploitation and child trafficking.
Recently I had the opportunity to hear a prosecutor, and city human trafficking task force member, discuss the process of …
Free the Slaves fifteenth anniversary is a good moment to distill lessons learned from years working with slaves, survivors, activists …
Whether one is a labor trafficking victim; a domestic or international sex trafficking victim or survivor; or any other victim …
At the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC), child sex trafficking is a high-priority issue because children who …