Start with Yourself & Your Family!
The purpose of starting here is to begin this journey by fortifying yourself and your family first. You can’t help us fight trafficking until we make sure you and your family are aware, safe, and ready to be a part of the solution!
The amount of victims that say “I was being trafficked while I was living at home,” or “I was chatting with a pimp online at the dinner table while I was with my family” is astounding. You may feel like this issue hasn’t touched you or your family BUT we need to make sure it hasn’t or that it never does. The amount of young adults and teenagers that meet up with predators they talk to on social media is the #1 way sexual exploitation occurs and we have to prevent it from happening in your home and in your community.
Training
Watch our age appropriate awareness training on your own or with your family. We want you to be aware of how human trafficking occurs, signs to look for, and what you can do if you see it.
Resources
After becoming aware, we want you to dive into our resources and find the help you or your family may need, have the conversations you may need to have, and start gearing up to really join us in this fight.
Game Plan
Now, train yourself/your family. We teach you how to identify predators online and how to respond if you’re in danger. We encourage you to come up with a family/personal game plan so that you/your loved ones aren’t at risk.
8 Days is a feature film by After Eden Pictures, created to open up a conversation with teens and to raise awareness. We encourage you to watch with your friends and family!
AWARENESS TRAINING
Identify what you or your family needs help with and explore these resources!
For Young Adults & Teens
Game Plan
Now that you are aware of sex trafficking, we want you to fortify yourself and the people around you by knowing what to look for, what to do if you’re in trouble or you see something, and coming up with a plan.
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Unexplained Injuries
Branding Tattoos
Hotel Keys
Rolls of Cash
Multiple Phones
Refillable Gift Cards
Sexually Provocative Clothing (inappropriate for weather situations)
Unable to make decisions without approval
Claims older boyfriend or girlfriend
Frequently absent from school or workplace
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Promises of love, romance, or acceptance
Offers independence
Luxury items and cash
Meeting the need for food, clothing, shelter.
Flattery, lies, and manipulation.
Exploiting position of authority
Exploiting vulnerability and desperation
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Pay close attention to your surroundings
Don’t wait to call - call your local law enforcement first and report red flag behaviors, tell them you may have observed trafficking
Don’t worry about being wrong
Provide detailed information such as:
what kind of car they got in, the person/s bone structure and attributes, when and where you saw something, what shoes the people had on, and if you feel comfortable, take a picture real-time
Do NOT approach traffickers yourself
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Watchman Warrior Weekend
Join Jaco for a father/son training weekend!
Fight trafficking with your dollar. Here are the companies & platforms that help fight against sex trafficking & align faith, family, & freedom.
Next Step…
Bring awareness to your community!
Let us know!
We want to know how this step went for you, let us know what went well or what didn’t. We would love to hear about things you liked or things that you felt could be better.