Reaching New Heights: Our Growing UK Team
This is both a challenging and exciting time for the Love146 UK team. More children than ever need the support we offer, and we have just taken steps towards serving more young people with the addition of several new team members. Growing our capacity is one of the practical ways that we offer young people the very best that we can.
A Story for Those About to Give Up
Giving up is never the right answer. Reevaluating, yes, reimagining, of course — but never giving up. Yet that was nearly the end result of one Volunteer Team after a year of floundering. What a mistake that would have been. They rebounded with more impact than they had considered possible. Here’s how it all went down.
Brianna’s Story
“I’ve heard of pimps and I knew to be scared of them – but I didn’t realize that the person I thought was protecting me was actually my pimp.”
— Brianna, one of more than 200 youth who have been served by our U.S. Survivor Care program
“A future where children are safe: this is our radical mission.” – Michelle Phan
This December individual donors and matching donor, Michelle Phan, contributed a breathtaking $119,199! Michelle Phan shared, “We will do anything to help create a future where children are safe. This is our radical mission. This is our purpose. 2017 will be a powerful year. We are just beginning!”
New York: Advocate for NYS Bill A8650B
Urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a new bill that would provide training for physicians, nurses, social workers, and other clinical care and security personnel to identify, assess, and provide appropriate treatment or referral for people suspected of being human trafficking victims.
A Story of Prevention…
A teenager learns how to recognize the signs of trafficking — and knows what to do during a potentially risky encounter.
BREAKING NEWS
Our US Survivor Care program has meant the world to children in Connecticut, children we know by name. Individual donors helped start this from scratch. That’s hope. Now, it will be expanding substantially, thanks in large part to contributions from fines and penalties paid by convicted federal offenders. That’s justice.
“I Couldn’t Sleep After Reading Your Website”
A supporter writes: There is something really unique about the way you educate about your cause, something raw and at the same time so loving that attracts me. I don’t know as much about any other organizations to which I donate as I do about you.
MAKE SURE SURVIVORS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT HAVE SUPPORT
… by petitioning your state’s Attorney General
Make Connecticut a safer place for children
Our state legislature is meeting right now and considering new measures that will strengthen our ability to stop traffickers and help support victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
3 Ways to Give this Season
This holiday season, there are a lot of ways that you can support Love146. We have e-cards, printable cards, awesome gift items, and even hanging wall pennants!
Out of Nowhere, I Was Given a Way Out
Note: Love146’s Survivor Care Program Manager, Erin Williamson, has been…
Tread on Trafficking: Conquering Pain & Heat In the Alps
I rode my bike across the Alps to conquer the mountain and to help Love146 conquer child trafficking.
Talking about trafficking in… Florida
Kelly, a Love146 Task Force Leader and Florida resident, talks about the unique characteristics of human trafficking in Central Florida.
I just couldn’t stop
I first participated in Tread on Trafficking in 2012 when a friend of mine told me about the Love146 because he knew I was looking for a way to do something for a good cause…
Tread on Trafficking: Children are worth it
I was in high school when I first heard of modern day slavery… and I knew that I would spend my life fighting against it.
