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Prevention

Organizations

The goal of awareness and education is ACTION. Effective action to prevent trafficking in persons requires a comprehensive approach, including measures to prevent trafficking, to protect victims of such trafficking and to prosecute traffickers. The root causes of trafficking are multifaceted, which means organizations that deal with helping and empowering vulnerable individuals, who are at a much greater risk of being exploited by others, can be considered prevention agencies.

The Defenders USA

Advocacy Awareness Prevention

The Defenders USA is a coalition of men across the United States who are opposed to all forms of commercialized sex. We’re guys who take a pledge and take action. We educate, equip, and empower other men to fight against the sex industry, and protect their families.

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The EPIK Project

Advocacy Prevention

The EPIK Project is a mobilization strategy designed to engage men in the fight to end the demand for prostituted kids in America. They do this by calling men to commit to two simple things.

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The Guardian Group

Awareness Outreach Prevention

Founded in 2010, the Guardian Group was created to confront the harsh reality of modern-day slavery, namely child sex slavery, to stop the problem at its source - the point of demand – and to assist in the discovery, identification and intervention of minor victims of sexual exploitation. 

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The Mentoring Project

Prevention

The Mentoring Project (TMProject) exists to recruit, train, resource and advocate for mentors so that we can rewrite the fatherless story through mentoring. TMProject is an advocacy and training organization that serves as a liaison between faith communities and matching agencies to provide mentors for fatherless youth. 

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Thorn

Advocacy Outreach Prevention

Thorn's mission is to drive technology innovation to fight child exploitation. They partner across private industry, government, NGOs and the general public to use technology to help identify victims, combat predatory behavior, and protect vulnerable children.

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Tomorrow’s Hope

Outreach Prevention

Tomorrow's Hope is a sex trafficking intervention and prevention ministry of the Transformation Network, a 501 (c)(3) ministry focused on bringing transformation through prayer and acts of justice.  

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Transitional Youth

Outreach Prevention

Transitional Youth was founded in 1991 by Bert E. Waugh, Jr., President of Prudential Northwest Properties, in response to the desperate needs of homeless youth. This faith-based, non-profit organization was created to bring meaningful assistance to local, homeless youth. 

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Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT)

Awareness Prevention

When truck drivers break at a rest stop, they're often confronted by young girls working in the sex trade - a trend this human rights campaign hopes to combat.

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UnBound Seattle

Advocacy Aftercare Awareness Prevention Shelter

UnBound was founded with the mission of collaborating with local community and service providers to fight human trafficking. UnBound Seattle addresses human trafficking through prevention, community education, and survivor advocacy. 

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Union Gospel Mission

Awareness Prevention

Union Gospel Mission was founded in 1927 when 40 area churches came together seeking to minister to the homeless on the streets of Portland. From that beginning, Union Gospel Mission has been serving the homeless, the hopeless and those in need consistently since that first chapel service in 1928. Union Gospel Mission is home to "LifeChange," an innovative addiction recovery community serving men and women. Union Gospel Mission serves more than 170,000 meals annually to those in need and provides clothing, referrals, and spiritual support to people in need in the Portland area. 

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United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Advocacy Aftercare Awareness Outreach Prevention

Progress in Saving Children's Lives

Every day, more than 19,000 children die—and they don't have to. They die from causes most people in the U.S. rarely worry about. Malnutrition. Unsafe drinking water. Lack of an affordable vaccine.  UNICEF is doing whatever it takes to reduce child mortality and reach a day when the number of children dying from preventable causes is not 19,000—it is ZERO.  We are closer than ever before, thanks to lifesaving interventions and programs that have helped reduce daily child deaths by 12,000 since 1990.

 

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