Child Trafficking, Human Traffickers, Human Trafficking
Friends: The World Cup is here! Millions of people will be attending a World Cup match this year. Games will be spread out across the Americas: the USA, Mexico, and Canada are co-hosting and the number of teams qualifying for the first round of play expanded to 48...
Child Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking
By Jeanie Thies, Ph.D. America’s foster care system has long served an essential role in helping protect children from abusive or neglectful homes or for whom no responsible guardians exist. Yet formal systems of care in the U.S., which can be traced back to the...
Child Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking
By Victor R. Wilburn, Ph.D. Professor, The Department of Child and Family Studies, Southeast Missouri State University; Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking Board Member. Families continue to exercise a wealth of opportunities to explore their communities and...
Child Trafficking, Exploitation, Human Trafficking, Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Labor Trafficking, Sex Trafficking
By Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking Team Every January, we recognize Human Trafficking Awareness Month and rally support for our work among the community that we need in this fight with us. But we also want to use this month as an opportunity to explain just...
Child Abuse, Child Trafficking, Foster Care, Homepage, Human Trafficking
By Abigail Meharg, Attorney, Gateway Alliance against Human Trafficking Program Committee Member The ultimate goal of the foster care system is to provide stable family environments for children and youth; foster care is meant to end once the parent or another...
Child Abuse, Child Trafficking, Exploitation
By Andrea Nichols, Ph.D., Professor, St. Louis Community College Forest Park; Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis; Gateway Alliance Against Human Trafficking Member. Research consistently finds an association between child sexual abuse (CSA) and sex...
