About the Program
Help combat modern-day slavery by learning the signs and submitting a confidential tip. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 911.
How to Participate
What is Human Trafficking?
Human Trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery, defined as any act that involves the recruitment, transportation, harboring, sale, or receipt of persons through coercion, force, abduction, and/or deception or fraud, for the improper purpose of placing them in a situation of forced labor, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, debt bondage or other slavery-like practice.
What Are Elements of Human Trafficking?
- Transporting
- Soliciting
- Recruiting
- Harboring
- Providing
- Enticing
- Maintaining
- Obtaining
- Force (Actual/Threat)
- Threat to harm family members
- Restraint/Isolation (or threat)
- Withholding/destroying documents
- Financial harm (or threat)
- Debt
- Fraud
- Deceit
- Commercial sex
- Labor
- Is the person accompanied by another person who does not let them speak for themselves, seems controlling or interprets for them?
- Is the person unwilling or hesitant to engage in conversation?
- Can you detect any physical or psychological abuse or neglect?
- Does the person seem submissive, nervous, fearful or hostile?
- Is the person under the age of 18 and engaged in commercial sex?
- Is the person unaware of location and time?
- Is the person in possession of his/her money, identification or other personal items?
- Call 911
- Call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888: Anti-Trafficking Hotline Advocates are available 24/7 to take reports of potential human trafficking.
- Text BeFree to the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 233733. Message and data rates may apply.
- Chat with the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
- Submit a tip online using the National Human Trafficking Hotline's anonymous reporting form. Please note that if the situation is urgent or occurred within the last 24 hours we would encourage you to call, text or chat.
- Text or Call 305-FIX-STOP (305-349-7867)
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