How Can You Help?

With an issue as complex and multifaceted as sex trafficking, there are many ways to help…but also many ways to do harm.

Before diving in to help, ask yourself about your motives.

Whenever you are called to serve a community, it is important to interrogate your underlying motivations. While it is awesome to want to help, coming in with a savior mindset or an assumption that you have solutions isn’t helpful as it ignores both the complexity of the issue and the intellect of people living these experiences.

Over time, there will be more information on this page regarding many ways for teens and young adults to engage with this topic.

This will include but not be limited to

  • Donating to groups that raise awareness, fight for change, and support survivors.

  • Educating yourself and others about the issue of sex trafficking

  • Engaging in the legislative and voting process

  • Exploring how our generation can change the landscape of the issue by

    • Boycotting industries that rely on sex trafficking

    • Integrating this knowledge into our mindset as we enter the workforce in industries such as

      • Healthcare

      • Education

      • Law

      • Hospitality

Some of you may even be interested in starting SSTN chapters on your high school and college campuses.

Additionally, this site will eventually provide information as to how you can avoid doing harm.

This will include conversations such as

  • How to intervene if you suspect sex trafficking in a way that does not put the individual in greater danger

  • Effective and appropriate terminology

  • Dismantling harmful assumptions and conflation of concepts