Features Mr. Smith, a 27-year-old single father who works full-time as a health worker. He and his fiancé would like full custody of his 7-year-old son, Samuel.
Features Mr. Smith, a 27-year-old single father who works full-time as a health worker. He and his fiancé would like full custody of his 7-year-old son, Samuel.
Provides a list of common misconceptions about child sex trafficking and uses facts to address those misconceptions.
Offers information about the experiences of youth who have been trafficked. This fact sheet provides lists of experiences that youth may have endured prior to being trafficked, while being trafficked, and/or after being trafficked.
Discusses the complex interplay of societal, community, relationship, and individual factors that increase a youth's risk of being trafficked.
Child sex trafficking involves the giving or receiving of anything of value (money, shelter, food, clothing, drugs, etc.) to any person in exchange for a sex act with someone under the age of 18.
Sex trafficking occurs among all socioeconomic classes, races, ethnicities, and gender identities and in urban, suburban, and rural communities across the US.
Child sex trafficking is a severe form of trauma exposure that may have significant immediate and long-term impacts for survivors.
The following resources on Child Sex Trafficking were developed by the NCTSN.
The following resources on Trafficking were developed by external partners and organizations.
Introduces Miguel, a 17-year-old with a history of truancy, fighting, and multiple arrests since the age of 14— around the time his mother passed away from cancer.
Links
[1] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/a-father-seeking-justice-in-dealing-with-the-child-protection-system
[2] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/child-sex-trafficking-what-you-might-not-know
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[5] https://www.nctsn.org/what-child-trauma-trauma-types/sex-trafficking
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[8] https://www.nctsn.org/what-child-trauma/trauma-types/sex-trafficking/nctsn-resources
[9] https://www.nctsn.org/what-child-trauma/trauma-types/sex-trafficking/external-resources
[10] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/the-intersection-between-multi-generational-developmental-trauma-and-contextual-trauma
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