Our Mission
Implement a coordinated community response to identify, prevent, and eliminate human trafficking in the Tri-County area.
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Support mandated reporters, law enforcement, and providers to identify and serve trafficking victims.
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Engage sustainable and sufficient resources to empower those victimized to be thriving community members.
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About Us
Human trafficking is a dynamic issue requiring action on the part of multiple actors. Law enforcement, social service providers, non-profits, and community members all play key roles in the identification, prevention, and elimination of human trafficking. Established in 2018, the Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force works to bring entities together in a collaborative response to this issue.
The Task Force is organized into 8 subcommittees: Education, Law Enforcement, Legal Innovations, Child Direct Services, Adult Direct Services, Healthcare, Faith-Based, and Research. Each one of these subcommittees works to employ a different facet of the community in response to human trafficking.
About Human Trafficking
What is Human Trafficking?
An estimated 40.3 million individuals are subject to human trafficking worldwide.​
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International Labour Organization, 2016
Human Trafficking is defined as:
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Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or
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The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery (USDOS, 2019).