According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 6 in 10 men and 5 in 10 women experience trauma at some point in their lifetime and...

As I struggle through this holiday season, a familial sex trafficking survivor who has been left without a family for the holidays, my...

What is Safe House Certification? Without proper aftercare, 80% of trafficking victims will be re-victimized. Aftercare is imperative to...

Dear Ms. N, In the third grade, I hated to read. My reading level was well below grade level. My writing was subpar. A teacher before you...

1. Perpetuates Stereotypes Many of these theories boast children locked in basements, white women kidnapped from upper middle class...

Mrs. C, I still have the first manuscript I ever wrote, a terrible crime thriller with your handwriting across the title page: “My future...

Dear Mr. L, My freshman year of high school you told me “anyone can sing.” I called you a liar to your face. You laughed at me, as if to...

Dear Ms. Amber, I remember telling you I wanted to die. You were the first adult I had ever been honest with about my struggles with...

Dear Mrs. K, You were the first person I ever told about the abuse. I don’t know what it was about you that felt safe. Maybe it was the...

Over the coming weeks, as children across the country go back to school, child sex trafficking survivors will share their stories of the...

Right now, parents are being inundated with a modern-day “Stranger Danger” as they are warned with article after article about online...

I just wanted him to love me. More than anything else in the entire world, I wanted him to look at me and tell me he loved me. I wanted...

One of the most important parts of the fight to eradicate human trafficking is educating the public on what they are fighting. Behind...

Sex trafficking is widely placed into a category as being a "women's issue." In addition to being simply untrue, this categorization is...

When I share my story with others, the fact that usually gets the most shock is that I was trafficked by a family member. For a large...

Dear Survivor, You are enough. If you want to become a survivor leader, you are enough. You do not need those credentials. You do not...

In church circles, I get asked a lot how I kept my faith. People ask me how I live my life not hating people in general because of...

One of my biggest struggles is something I refer to as "trauma brain." Its thought processes associated with the high level of trauma...

A young survivor shared this poem she had written about her identity following escape from her trafficker. I have left it exactly as she...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2021 NORFOLK, VA – Norfolk Public Library (NPL) is now a certified OnWatchTM Advocate after training more...