This innovative website is designe to educate, empower, and connect victims and survivors of sex and labor trafficking with resources, community, and hope.
Share this resource with victims and survivors in your community. This platform is dedicated to eliminating the noise of other websites and providing clear, empowering information for those impacted by trafficking and other forms of exploitation.
Downloadable outreach materials coming soon!
The Imagine Freedom podcast, produced by the Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center in Tallahassee, Florida, is more than just a series of conversations—it’s a platform for resilience, truth and hope.
Hosted by STAC Executive Director Robin Hassler Thompson, each episode connects listeners with powerful voices of sex and labor trafficking survivors from many walks of life who are using their experiences to protect and strengthen our communities.
We invite you to listen—not just with your ears, but with your heart. By understanding their stories, we take meaningful steps toward a world where freedom is real and not just imagined.
As with all STAC’s work, our podcast guests are fairly compensated for their time and expertise because we value their voices. Join us in learning, in standing together, and in making a difference.
The Leon County Commission determined a need for all Tallahassee businesses to know how to identify human trafficking and how to take action to help survivors and hold traffickers accountable. This training is specifically tailored to the Leon County community – Leon County’s businesses have a unique and important role to stop, prevent and respond to human trafficking.
The goal of this free, on-demand training is to help the thousands of businesses in our area know what to look for so they can see the signs of human trafficking and take action.
This training will be useful to all workplaces: hotels, restaurants, the financial sector, retail outlets, offices, profit and non-profit sectors alike, and many more.
STACPRO is a Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center (STAC) training program funded by Leon County and the City of Tallahassee.
The Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center provides direct support to survivors and can assist with housing, counseling, employment and more.
We also provide training and education on how to recognize, report and prevent human trafficking. We’ve worked with healthcare and child welfare professionals, law enforcement, educators, faith communities, and not-for-profit organizations.
Social justice aims for the systematic fair treatment of all people. STAC believes that everyone deserves equitable social and economic rights, opportunities, and treatment. Traffickers target vulnerable victims with promises of an escape from harsh realities of their current conditions. In almost every instance, human trafficking victims are victims of institutional oppression and systematic racism, classism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and heterosexism before they are targeted by a trafficker. Human trafficking cannot be understood as an individual harm perpetrated by criminals; but instead must be understood within the structural conditions of society that facilitate exploitation.
A social justice perspective is crucial for our work to support survivors of human trafficking and to prevent people of being trafficked.
Recent News
Florida is a national leader in educating students about human trafficking. The state’s K-12 students receive instruction on how to prevent child sexual abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking. But lawmakers…
In this episode, host Robin Hassler Thompson imagines freedom with Katie Papke, LMSW, CAADC, CCHTVSP. Katie is a human trafficking survivor. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker, Certified Advanced…
Tallahassee State College student Lakendra Reeves is four classes away from receiving her associate’s degree in criminal justice – an accomplishment she never thought she’d make, considering how nearly 20 years ago, she…
Children, teens, parents, grandparents, caregivers and families can all be impacted by human trafficking.
To empower family member – especially children and teens – to create a safer community, these tools can help caregivers talk with youth.
These tools are also for youth to support and inform one another.
All of this information focuses on how prevent human trafficking and to keep caregivers and youth stronger, smarter, and more resilient.
Funded in partnership with the Children’s Services Council of Leon County.
