Up-to-date statistics on human trafficking are notoriously hard to find. Many studies are outdated, have small sample sizes, or are inundated with...
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 6 in 10 men and 5 in 10 women experience trauma at some point in their lifetime and 8 million...
As I struggle through this holiday season, a familial sex trafficking survivor who has been left without a family for the holidays, my therapist gave...
Dear Ms. N, In the third grade, I hated to read. My reading level was well below grade level. My writing was subpar. A teacher before you told me my...
1. Perpetuates Stereotypes Many of these theories boast children locked in basements, white women kidnapped from upper middle class families, or women...
Mrs. C, I still have the first manuscript I ever wrote, a terrible crime thriller with your handwriting across the title page: “My future famous...
Dear Mr. L, My freshman year of high school you told me “anyone can sing.” I called you a liar to your face. You laughed at me, as if to say “challenge...
Dear Ms. Amber, I remember telling you I wanted to die. You were the first adult I had ever been honest with about my struggles with suicidality. You...
Dear Mrs. K, You were the first person I ever told about the abuse. I don’t know what it was about you that felt safe. Maybe it was the way you made me...
Parents are now being inundated with a modern-day “Stranger Danger” as they are warned with article after article about online predators. While these...