Human Trafficking Awareness Month

Human Trafficking Awareness Month

by | Jan 9, 2024 | Children, media, prevention, USA

January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and January 11 is the DAY of national awareness – the idea is for everyone to wear BLUE on that day to mark your being aware enough to do at least that. Some add “Prevention” in the title there...
Prevention: All about ACEs

Prevention: All about ACEs

by | Aug 26, 2020 | prevention

As I discussed in my previous blog post about human trafficking prevention, we must move very upstream in order to be most effective in stopping human trafficking. In this post I continue with the topic of prevention and discuss the linkages between adverse childhood...
Field Trip

Field Trip

by | Mar 21, 2017 | Children, prevention, Thailand

Last week I traveled with Labour Rights Promotion Network (LPN) on a field trip to Rayong and Khlong Yai near the Cambodian border. We visited a couple of LPN’s Learning Centers that serve as a remedial school/drop-in center for migrant children who otherwise...
Field Trip

Frank and Kyle

by | Mar 2, 2017 | prevention, Thailand

I first met Frank at press briefing where he gave a brief testimony of what life was like for him as a slave aboard a Thai fishing vessel. A week later I presented a workshop on trauma informed care and self-care to the staff and peer leaders of the Labour Rights...
Field Trip

The “Upstream” Work of Prevention

by | Sep 12, 2013 | prevention

There is a disconnection between the intention to abolish slavery and most of the interventions being done that actually don’t apply to the prevention of slavery. You have all heard this: “Join us in our effort to stop human trafficking by donating $$$ towards...