Theodore Talk - Spotting the Signs & Preventing Child Sex Trafficking

Child sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a minor for the purpose of a commercial sex act. Traffickers target vulnerable children and gain control over them using a variety of manipulative methods. Victims frequently fall prey to traffickers who lure them in with an offer of food, clothes, attention, friendship, love and a seemingly safe place to sleep. No child is immune to becoming a victim of child sex trafficking, regardless of the child's race, age, socioeconomic status, or location, and every child involved in this form of commercial sexual exploitation is a victim.

This Theodore Talk will focus on how children are lured into the dark world of sex trafficking and exploitation. Attendees will identify the dangers of technology, including strategies used by child predators, discover how to identify a child in trouble and learn some best practices on how to be a child's trusted adult or a trusted child advocate.
Susan Burkholder is the Lead Prevention Education Trainer at Ransomed Life, a non-profit fighting child sex trafficking and exploitation in San Antonio, Texas and surrounding areas. Since 2015, Ransomed Life has trained and brought awareness to more than 90,000 community members, school staff, counselors, medical professionals, parents and youth. Their goal is to see communities FREE from child exploitation through Prevention Education and providing Client Services for survivors, at-risk youth and their families.

Ransomed Life offers hope to survivors and their families. You will learn to do the same.

Register for this presentation here.

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Theodore Talks take place on Zoom the fourth Sunday of each month at 2:30 p.m. (CT).

Remember, Theodore Talks are always offered FREE in an effort to provide more value for your membership.

Questions? For more information, contact Brad Lucht.