Links to Learn More

Break These Chains Live Free is all about awareness.  The more you know, the more you can help.  We are not experts, we are volunteers with a mission.  But expertise is available.

We've found the following government or non-profit organization websites informative on all aspects of human trafficking.  Together they create a a network spaning information about trafficking and traffickers, services availabe to victims, training for first responders and methods of report human trafficking.  

 

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Blue Campaign is a national public awareness campaign, designed to educate the public, law enforcement and other industry partners to recognize the indicators of human trafficking, and how to appropriately respond to possible cases. Blue Campaign works closely with DHS Components to create general awareness training and materials for law enforcement and others to increase detection of human trafficking, and to identify victims.  https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign

 

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Polaris is spearheading a reimagined approach to confronting, and ultimately, to ending sex and labor trafficking in North America. Their work is driven by data, shaped by the expertise of survivors, and focused on dismantling the underlying systems that make it possible to rob 25 million people around the world of the freedom to choose how they live and work.  The site contains many survivor videos as well as resources and information on all types of human trafficking, including how traffickers operate and lure victims.  Polaris manages the National Human Trafficking Hotline 1-888-373-7888. (TTY: 711) *Text 233733. https://polarisproject.org

 

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NCMEC provides specialized technical assistance, analysis and recovery services on cases involving child sex trafficking, including:

  • reviewing CyberTipline reports related to child sex trafficking
  • assisting on cases of missing children involved in, or at risk of, trafficking
  • providing technical assistance and training to help with the identification, location and provision of recovery planning and services to victims of child sex trafficking
  • supporting the recovery of victims by making referrals for post-recovery resources and services for child sex trafficking victims and their families
  • providing peer-to-peer support for families of child sex trafficking victims 

https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/trafficking

 

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Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) is raising up a mobile army of transportation professionals to assist law enforcement in the recognition and reporting of human trafficking.  This aids in the recovery of victims and the arrest of their perpetrators. Many states, including Nevada, where Break These Chains Live Free is headquartered, work with TAT.  The website features victim stories, training videos and other resources for trucking professionals to learn about and become an advocate to stop human trafficking.   https://truckersagainsttrafficking.org/

 

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Shared Hope International strives to prevent the conditions that foster sex trafficking, restore victims of sex slavery, and bring justice to vulnerable women and children. It envisions a world passionately opposed to sex trafficking and a community committed to restoring survivors to lives of purpose, value and choice – one life at a time.  The site contains victim stories together with resources, such as a guide to internet safety for children.  https://sharedhope.org/