Traffick911

Traffick911

Civic and Social Organizations

Addison, TX 2,521 followers

Freeing youth from sex trafficking through building trust-based relationships.

About us

Traffick911 exists to free youth from sex trafficking through trust-based relationships. This is accomplished by a 24/7 crisis response team, advocates, and community volunteer mentors walking alongside child sex trafficking victims and with community multi-disciplinary team partners. The field-based team responds to law enforcement when a victim is recovered and dispatches to their location within 60 minutes. Highly-trained advocates work to establish felt safety, meet material needs, and implement safety plans. Advocates work with survivors into adulthood for long-term healing and protection from re-victimization through trauma-informed case management, goal-planning, and connection to safe community relationships, including mentors. Traffick911 was named the 2017 Nonprofit of the Year by the Junior League of Collin County and 2013 Outstanding Organization of the Year by the Fort Worth Commission for Women with commendations by the Fort Worth City Council, mayor and a State Senator. We have also been recognized by Homeland Security Investigations as a most-valued partner in this battle to save our children from sexual slavery. In 2017, Traffick911 was selected by the Office of the Governor in Texas to provide direct services including crisis response, case management/advocacy, and mentorship to child sex trafficking victims in North Texas as a part of a regional multi-disciplinary team in North Texas Counties. As a part of Traffick911's Voice & Choice survivor empowerment program, first responders are able to call Traffick911 for 24-hour crisis response to begin relational advocacy services with the survivor and support them on their journey to healing. The Traffick911 team has identified and served over 1,700 victims and their work - in close partnership with law enforcement - has led to multiple state and federal felony arrests and convictions.

Website
http://www.traffick911.com
Industry
Civic and Social Organizations
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Addison, TX
Type
Nonprofit
Founded
2009
Specialties
Human Trafficking, First Responder Training, Sex Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Advocacy, Mentoring, High-risk Youth, and Crisis Response

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Employees at Traffick911

Updates

  • As the end of Human Trafficking Awareness & Prevention Month is here, there is no more important of a topic to highlight than this report by Rights4Girls. Grateful for their insights into the issue of demand.

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    Rights4Girls is proud to release our new report, “Buyers Unmasked: Exposing the Men Who Buy Sex & Solutions to End Exploitation” – which focuses on the men who buy sexual acts and highlights the devastating damage they cause marginalized women and girls in all our communities. The full report can be read and downloaded at: https://lnkd.in/dffgpMdB. At a time when the identities of those on Jeffrey Epstein’s “client list” and the participants of Sean “Diddy” Combs” “freak-offs” remain a mystery, Buyers Unmasked provides critical insight into an often-overlooked dimension of commercial sexual exploitation: the very buyers driving the global multi-billion-dollar sex trade. We chose January, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, to shine a bright light on those who finance and sustain this booming industry of sexual abuse and violence and offer solutions to prevent trafficking and bring justice and protection to survivors. Importantly, the report includes direct quotes from buyers themselves, illustrating how these men view and discuss the people they purchase for sex, as well as the overall act of sex-buying across the US. The report reveals sex buyers as fully aware and indifferent to signs of trafficking, intimidation, violence, substance abuse and desperation in the women and youth they purchase for sexual gratification.

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  • Traffick911 reposted this

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    Thorn closely studies the evolving experiences, challenges, and risks that young people face in online spaces—and while the internet offers incredible opportunities for connection and exploration, it also presents significant risks. 🔍 What we’re seeing: 📈 59% of minors report encountering potentially harmful online experiences—a number that has steadily risen since 2020. ⚠️ 1 in 3 minors report experiencing an online sexual interaction. 👤 Yet, 1 in 6 of those minors do not disclose their experience to anyone. Why? One reason is that many young people view these harmful encounters as "not a big deal," underscoring a troubling trend—the increasing normalization of these interactions. Platforms play a critical role in helping young people avoid and respond to these threats. Together, we can build safer digital spaces and empower young people to recognize, report, and resist harmful behavior. Explore our research to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eBZv_-De

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    I can’t stop thinking about it. In the first episode of a popular show I recently started watching, the main character—high and drunk—parties poolside with two female “friends” in the dead of night. A few episodes later, one of those female “friends” makes a surprise appearance at a gathering hosted by the main character. Upon being asked how she knew the host, she casually replies, “Oh, I used to be a sex worker.” “Used to be…a sex worker?” I paused the show. I just couldn’t get over how plainly she said it—“I used to be a sex worker,” as if she’d given her two-week notice and left. As if, exploitation is an occupation. It felt tone-deaf. The reality is, leaving the commercial sex industry, or ‘the life’ is not easy. In fact, in her memoir, Girls Like Us, Rachel Lloyd, CMG, anti-trafficking advocate, author, lived experience expert, says, “…leaving the life takes practice. The girls need to try multiple times without having someone give up on them.” Two questions we can count on being asked anytime we do any speaking engagement, info booth, or really just any time we talk about what we do here at Traffick911 are,

“Why do they stay or go back?” Why do people—in our case, children—who are recovered from trafficking situations so often return to their trafficker? And the classic, “How many times does it take before they stop going back?” Well, to quote Ms. Lloyd—simply put, it takes “multiple times,” and the reasons why are profoundly complex. Read our latest blog post, here https://lnkd.in/gyccfKYZ

    I can't stop thinking about it. — Traffick911

    I can't stop thinking about it. — Traffick911

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  • Tuesday was a great day! 💚 On Tuesday, January 7th, at the Dallas County Commissioners Court, Commissioner Dr. Elba Garcia presented a resolution recognizing Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and the North Texas Coalition Against Human Trafficking named Traffick911 as the 2024 Champion of Freedom Award recipient. We are so honored to receive this award from our peers and stand alongside past award recipients including Gov. Greg Abbott, Dallas Police Department, Fort Worth Police Department, and Retired Sgt. Byron Fassett.

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  • Reposting this gem from last year's #HumanTrffickingAwarenessMonth because it's just so powerful! Throughout the years, many men have asked us what their role in the fight against trafficking might be. The truth is, the majority of s-x buyers are men, so the issue of demand largely begins and ends with them. We asked the men in our community to stand with us and declare “I’m not buying it!” when it comes to human tr-fficking. We are beyond grateful for our community of men who join us in this important work. Sign the Freedom Pledge and declare “I’m not buying it!” today. 👊 https://lnkd.in/gEcQK8aX

  • January is Human Trafficking Prevention and Awareness Month. This year, we are continuing our focus on the issue of "demand." The reality is—trafficking is a supply-and-demand issue. If our society didn’t condone buying people for sex, then there would be no incentive for traffickers to sell people for sex. Here are some simple, powerful opportunities for you to take your place in this fight and say "I'm not buying it," with us this month. 💙 https://lnkd.in/g5s3jf22

  • It’s always an act of the will to take moments away from the urgent crises to stop and enjoy the now. This Christmas season, our staff paused to make stockings in our favorite Christmas pajamas one week, exchanged white elephant gifts another week, and enjoyed a Christmas brunch where we dressed up as a Christmas song/movie and gave out espy awards. Bonus points if you can you tell what our Executive Director dressed up as! We consider it the deepest honor to learn to hold the tension between joy and sorrow, gratitude and grief, hope and loss, happiness and suffering this Christmas season. ❤️

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