RESOURCES.
IF YOU'VE IDENTIFIED WITH ANY OF THE STORIES YOU'VE HEARD FROM OUR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS EVENTS OR TRAININGS:
PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES TO LEARN ABOUT HOW TO TAKE YOUR NEXT RIGHT STEP.
VIDEO STORIES
- Stories from Goya Cares Program (Click Here to Watch)
- Sex Trafficking in Plain Sight — Rebecca Bender (Click Here to Watch)
- "I was human trafficked for 10 years. We can do more to stop it." — Barbara Amaya (Click Here to Watch)
- Seattle Sex Trafficking Survivor Shares Her Story [FBI] (Click Here to Watch)
- Domestic Sex Trafficking — Karly Church (Click Here to Watch)
THERAPY
- Crisis Center of Tampa Bay — Trauma Counseling [Call 211] (Click Here to Learn More)
- Hope for Healing Florida (Click Here to Learn More)
- Better Help — Online, Affordable Therapy (Click Here to Learn More)
BOOKS
- Ria’s Story: From Ashes to Beauty by Ria Story: (Find the Book Here)
- The Slave Across the Street by Theresa Flores (Find the Book Here)
- Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight by Stephanie Hepburn & Rita Simon: (Find the Book Here)
- What Happened to Me?! Healing for Sex Trafficking Survivors by Toni McKinley (Find the Book Here)
- Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Loss and Innocence, Modern Day Slavery, & Transformation by Barbara Amaya: (Find the Book Here)
- Suicide and Sex Work: Finding God in a Godless World by Hope Doe: (Find the Book Here)
- Stolen: A True Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor by Katariina Rosenblatt & Cecil Murphey (Find the Book Here)
STORY ARTICLES
- “About Human Trafficking” — U.S. Department of State (Click Here to Learn More)
- What is Human Trafficking — Polaris Project (Click Here to Learn More)
- Survivor Stories from Polaris Project:
- Polaris Story #1
- Polaris Story #2
- Polaris Story #3
- Polaris Story #4
- Polaris Story #5
- Polaris Story #6
- Polaris Story #7
- Survivor Stories from Shared Hope International
ORGANIZATIONS
- FOR SERVICES IN THE TAMPA BAY AREA
- I Rise - Support for Survivors (https://www.irisefl.org/)
- Created Women (https://www.createdwomen.com/)
- Selah Freedom (https://selahfreedom.com/)
- One More Child (https://onemorechild.org/)
- Justice Restoration Center (https://www.jrcenter.org/)
- Bay Area Legal (https://bals.org/)
- Gulf Coast Legal Services (https://gulfcoastlegal.org/)
- Voices for Florida (https://voicesforflorida.org/)
- Victims to Survivors (https://victims2survivorsus.org/)
- More Too Life (https://moretoolife.org/)
- FOR EDUCATION
- Polaris Project (https://polarisproject.org/)
- Shared Hope International (https://sharedhope.org/)