Hospitals on the Lookout for Human Trafficking
A southwest healthcare group is training everyone from surgeons to security to spot human trafficking red flags By Amanda Kippert She might appear malnourished, fearful or confused about what city…
Sexual Assault
Sexual assault can take many different forms, but one thing remains the same: it’s never the victim’s fault. What is sexual assault? The term sexual assault refers to sexual contact…
When Survivors Believe They’re Responsible for Ending Abuse
Some abusers convince survivors that abuse is their fault, and survivors take responsibility for everything January 21, 2019 By Stephanie Thurrott 805 Print Article One way abusers control domestic violence…
Human Trafficking
What is Human Trafficking? sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act…
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month
Teen dating violence— also called intimate relationship violence or intimate partner violence among adolescents or adolescent relationship abuse — includes physical, psychological or sexual abuse; harassment; or stalking of any…
Ask Amanda: Is It Ever Safe to Go Back?
An abuser promises things will be different this time. Can this ever be true? January 16, 2019 By domesticshelters.org Q: My ex who abused me wants me to come back.…
Raising Awareness
Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, advertising, maintaining, patronizing, or soliciting a person for labor or services, through the act of fraud, coercion or force…
What is ‘Victim Shaming’?
Victim shaming comments and questions focus the blame on the wrong person May 27, 2015 By domesticshelters.org When women began stepping forward late last year accusing comedian and actor Bill…
Presidential Proclamation on National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, 2019
December 31, 2018 Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is not enough merely to denounce this horrific assault on human dignity; we must actively work to prevent…