Human Trafficking Awareness Month – Michigan Abolitionist Project (MAP)

Human Trafficking Awareness Month 2022

January 31, 2022/in Human Trafficking Awareness Month/by Heather McGannon

Thank you for joining us on our various Social Media Platforms this month! We are grateful to be able to use these different outlets to help educate and bring awareness to you and your communities about Human Trafficking. Below you will find a list of the resources we have mentioned in our posts this month. We would encourage you to make your way through the list this year. The more we know, the better informed we are and the better we can do at addressing human trafficking in Michigan!

Day 1&2:

map-mi.org

Day 3:

Podcast series

Abolitionist Program

Day 4:

Reading List

Day 5:

Cup of Hope with Karen Hanks

Polaris Article on Human Trafficking Rumors

Day 6:

Key Legislation paper from DOJ

Cup of Hope with AAG Kelly Carter

Day 7:

Podcast about Legislation

Article about the current Bills in the House from the AG’s office

Find your Michigan House Representative

Day 8:

Michigan Human Trafficking Commission website

Day 9:

Read the article about Traffickers from the Human Trafficking Hotline

Listen to our podcast on “Who are the Traffickers?”

Day 10:

Listen to our podcast “Who Are the Victims of Human Trafficking?”

Day 11:

Read “Understanding Victim Mindsets” article

Read “Why didn’t I just leave my trafficker?” article

Day 12:

Watch Very Young Girls documentary

Watch Trafficked In America Episode 9

Add the Hotline number to your phone: 888-373-7888

Day 16:

Read “Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight”

Day 18:

Go to our Events page to find out what’s going on in your community and if there is anything you can attend!

Day 19:

Read the 2020 Analysis of Data from Polaris

Cup of Hope episode “Safely Navigating the Digital Landscape” with David Mehy

Start following Protect Young Eyes on Social Media

Day 20:

Read the study by Thorn on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

If you see Child Sexually Abusive Material go to: cybertipline.org to report it!

Day 21:

Read some articles at traffickinghub.com

Read the Avery Center report on OnlyFans

Read the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons-Traffickers Use of the Internet

Listen to our podcast on Online Enticement and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Day 22:

Watch a movie on Human Trafficking

Trafficked in America

Day 23:

Get involved with MAP!

Join our next Volunteer Interest Meeting

Join a Community Group in your area

Sign up for the Abolitionist Program

Day 24:

Watch Stop This Traffic

Day 25:

Read Becoming a Part of the Solution: First Steps to Ethical Shopping

Day 26:

Read article about Labor Trafficking in Michigan

Day 27:

Read The Illicit Massage Industry at a Glance from Heyrick Research

Day 28:

Stay tuned for the download of our Annual Summit

Day 29:

Learn more about our co-hosts from the Summit and what they’re doing in their areas

SEE. Solutions to End Exploitation

The Joseph Project

Days 30-31:

If you have any questions or comments reach out to: info@map-mi.org

We’d love to hear from you!

Human Trafficking Awareness Month Reading List 2022

January 4, 2022/in Human Trafficking Awareness Month/by Heather McGannon

It’s Day 4 of Human Trafficking Awareness Month and we are grateful to have you with us as we share resources and help to equip you and your communities to bring awareness to human trafficking!

Today we are highlighting the CRITICAL importance of listening to Survivors and making sure that their voices are leading the way and shaping how we think about Human Trafficking. This is their lived experience and they are the experts. May we never stop learning from these women, children, and men.

We would encourage you to read any of these books, which are written by women who are survivors. (click on the book to take you to a link to purchase it)

Girls Like Us-Rachel Lloyd

Out of the Darkness-Alice Jay

The Slave Across the Street-Theresa Flores

In Pursuit of Love-Rebecca Bender

When Angels Fight-Leslie King

Any others that have been impactful for you?

We would also encourage you to follow them and/or their organizations on Social Media!

Lastly, let us remember that not all Survivors want to be public figures, or want to be specifically known and introduced as “survivor of human trafficking”. There are women, men, and children who are survivors of trafficking all around us, but who wish to keep that part of their story to themselves, or just those they choose to share it with. And some are not ready to share it yet. We respect that, and hope you will join us in that too!

For service providers, Task Forces and anyone who is interested in having a lived experience expert come share at an event, please check this resource out that the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons put out as a guide for Engaging Survivors.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Engaging-Survivors-of-Human-Trafficking.pdf

Lunch N Learn-Southwest Michigan Human Trafficking Task Force (St. Joseph)

January 21, 2022/in Awareness, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, West Michigan/by Heather McGannon

To kick off the year and promote Human Trafficking Awareness Month the Task Force will be hosting a Lunch N Learn at Papa Vino’s in St. Joseph! We will hear from social worker and educator Rita O’Brien.

Rita is a survivor and educator in the field of sex trafficking. Rita has a passion for Justice to educate the very communities that she was trafficked from. Rita was trafficked in rural communities by her father who was deep in the Masonic Organization. Professionally, she has done security, photography, and was a House Director at a Sorority at U of M. Rita went on to get her Masters in Social work from Western Michigan University with a Trauma focus. Rita is a Board member of Pearls of Great Price Coalition out of Plymouth MI and is also on the board for Kalamazoo Area Anti Trafficking Coalition. Rita continues to speak out to educate others on how to watch for Human Trafficking in their communities.

Cost is $20 and will include lunch, drink and a salad.

Email Heather for more info: heather@map-mi.org

Register Here

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