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Survivor leaders, lived experience consultants, and/or lived experience experts are individuals who have lived through a form of commercial exploitation or human trafficking and use the knowledge and insight gained from our experiences to help shape and inform various spaces within the anti-trafficking field.

You may have seen posts on our Instagram page about online enticement and sextortion. Because of the response of people wanting to learn more, we thought it would be best to do a deep dive on what sextortion is, what professionals and law enforcement are seeing, and what you need to know as community members, caregivers, youth, and service providers.

We firmly believe that runaway prevention is human trafficking prevention. Our goal is to address the risks and vulnerabilities that affect our local teen community members that lead to runaway/missing episodes, unhealthy relationships, dating, sexual exploitation and violence, homelessness, and human trafficking.