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How Are You Working to #EndTrafficking?
For the remainder of National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, Blue Campaign is highlighting resources you can use to help #EndTrafficking. The Campaign will share a variety of resources on social media (@DHSBlueCampaign on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram) for the public and specific professions, including convenience store employees, law enforcement, and adults who work with youth. The resources cover topics that range from protecting yourself against the grooming tactics of traffickers to educating frontline workers on how to recognize and respond to suspected trafficking.
Check out all of Blue Campaign’s free awareness and educational resources below. Share them online, in your workplace and community, and with friends and family to help raise awareness of this crime. We need your help to #EndTrafficking.
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BLI Holds Super Bowl Human Trafficking Awareness Training Sessions
Last month, BLI representatives led a series of virtual and in-person human trafficking awareness trainings for Los Angeles-area aviation employees ahead of Super Bowl LVI. As part of a joint effort with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles, these sessions trained more than 150 frontline personnel from Los Angeles International Airport and other aviation entities in the greater metro area. Attendees were given an overview of human trafficking, as well as tips for how to recognize and report potential human trafficking situations in preparation for the influx of visitors expected for the upcoming event.
Learn more about BLI and how to become a partner.
Photo: BLI representative presents to a group of aviation employees.
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FACT Sheet: The National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking (The White House)
The White House released its new National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking on December 3. The updated plan, geared toward the needs of underserved individuals, families, and communities, will focus on four key U.S. and global anti-trafficking efforts: prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnerships. DHS played an integral role in developing this strategy and will support its mission in a variety of ways moving forward.
Biden Signs Executive Order Targeted at Curbing Human Trafficking, Crime on Native Lands (Newsweek)
On Monday, November 15, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that tasks the Justice, Homeland Security, and Interior Departments to work together to combat human trafficking and other crimes on Native lands. Signed at the White House Summit on Tribal Nations, the order requires the departments to build participation in Amber Alert programs and other national training programs for federal agents, as well as to appoint a liaison for family members and advocates.
Tag Blue Campaign on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using @DHSBlueCampaign. Each month we share content you can distribute on your social channels to raise awareness of human trafficking in your community.
- Thank you to everyone who participated in #WearBlueDay! You showed that together, we can help raise awareness of #HumanTrafficking. See how you can continue to play a role in recognizing and reporting this crime from @DHSBlueCampaign: bit.ly/2IWm22a
- Ready to put your #HumanTrafficking knowledge to the test? Take the @DHSBlueCampaign quiz and assess your knowledge of the consequences of this crime: bit.ly/3pTT2zT
- We need your help to #EndTrafficking. Download @DHSBlueCampaign toolkits to learn how to recognize and report #HumanTrafficking in a variety of situations: bit.ly/2sxLMhi
For more information visit the Blue Campaign
To report suspected human trafficking: 1-866-347-2423
To get help from the National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-373-7888
or text HELP or INFO to BeFree (233733)
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