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Human Trafficking Survivors

Imagine Freedom Mural Project
“From Surviving to Thriving: A Call to End Human Trafficking”

The Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center (STAC) is issuing a Call to Artists to create a mural design that will be part of our January 2024 community-wide Human Trafficking Prevention observance. The power of art to create community conversation is unparalleled. STAC anticipates that the artwork will be a catalyst for learning to the whole community, especially in local rural areas, for youth and adults alike.

The artwork will be featured on January 30, 2024, at an opening reception from 5:30 – 7:30 pm in Tallahassee, FL, and then throughout the year at venues where STAC provides services (Wakulla, Franklin, Liberty, Gadsden, Leon, and Jefferson counties).

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.

Social justice and human trafficking are intrinsically interconnected.

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.