Episode 1: Liz Kimbel
In this episode, we imagine freedom with Liz Kimbel, program specialist and board member at the Restoring Ivy Collective. She is a survivor advocate with the Global Center on Human…
Survive and Thrive honors 6 for efforts to end human trafficking in Big Bend
The Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center (STAC) recently honored six local changemakers and their teams for helping strengthen the community against sex and labor trafficking. Read the full article at…
New Documentary on ‘sextortion’ is misleading and troubling
This story takes a look at how a new documentary is promoting misinformation about many topics, including child sex trafficking and sextortion. They detail how the filmmaker exaggerates statistics and…
Action Beyond Awareness: 4 Ways to Help End Human Trafficking
You may have heard the phrase “action beyond awareness.” Spreading the word about human trafficking is important, but if it stops there, not much changes. Action beyond just awareness means…
Human Trafficking and Social Media Safety for Kids
Human trafficking recruitment through social media has been on the rise and children are especially at risk. In 2018, a startling 90 percent of human trafficking victims met their traffickers…
As human traffickers develop new techniques, so must those who try to stop them (WFSU Local News)
For the past seven years, calls from Florida to the National Human Trafficking Hotline have increased. That has coincided with the state’s efforts to raise awareness and combat the issue.…
Want to stop human trafficking? You can take action
By Jamie Rosseland January is always a significant month in my life. It’s a season of new beginnings and resolutions. A time of reflection and goal setting. It’s also National…
Human trafficking awareness and prevention event happening in Tallahassee on Jan. 26, 2023
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Working together to try and prevent human trafficking. That’s the goal of the Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center in Tallahassee. They’re teaming up with other local…
STAC Accepts Human Trafficking Prevention Month Proclamation
STAC Executive Director Robin Hassler Thompson, along with representatives from the International Rescue Committee, Florida Alliance to End Human Trafficking, and STAC board member Dr. Cicely Brantley, accepted a Human…
DCF Hosts Human Trafficking Prevention Roundtable
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, Department of Children and Families (DCF) Secretary Shevaun Harris hosted a roundtable regarding the prevention of Human Trafficking in the Big Bend Region as part of Human…