January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month
Members of the Human Trafficking Task Force, Law Enforcement, Service providers and Advocates gather for the Human Trafficking Awareness Proclamation signing in 2024.
REALIZE. RECOGNIZE. RESPOND.
Call the Nebraska Adult & Child Abuse & Neglect Hotline (800) 652-1999 or Local Law Enforcement to report suspicious activities that may look like trafficking situations.
Report Human Trafficking in Nebraska
Nebraska Human Trafficking Hotline 1-833-PLS-LOOK (1-833-757-5665).
If you are a victim, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline 1-888-373-7888.
In an emergency, call 911
What is Trafficking?
Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the 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 (22 USC § 7102).
Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery, (22 USC § 7102).
Nebraska Anti-Trafficking Partnerships
The Division of Children and Family Services is a member of the Nebraska Human Trafficking Task Force.
Facilitates on-line community collaboration meetings for anyone working with survivors of human trafficking or those working on anti-trafficking efforts are welcome to attend. Contact
Anyone involved in the anti-trafficking movement in Nebraska is welcome to join the NebraskaPATH listserv, to join fill out this form.
The purpose of the listserv is to encourage collaboration between those involved in the anti-trafficking movement throughout Nebraska, use the listserv to ask questions and share training and resources.
NebraskaPATH maintains a service directory to help survivors and their supporters navigate available resources. The resources featured in the directory were gathered from listings found on statewide service agency and government websites, listings found on the websites of national networks, and from information provided by members of the NebraskaPATH listserv. The directory is updated every other year.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Children and Family Services, received funding in FY 2020 from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to support a statewide, collaborative, multi-agency response to overcome significant barriers facing child and youth victims of sex and labor trafficking in Nebraska, including victims in tribal and Native communities.
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**The document below was created with the support of grant #2020-MU-MU-0024, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
The **Nebraska Statewide Trafficking Protocol Guidance document is intended to be used as a supplemental tool that guides the development of organization or agency response protocols.
- To increase readiness and capacity to support and serve those who may have experienced exploitation and trafficking.
- The components included are key to understanding, developing, and increasing an organization-wide trauma responsive approach to trafficking and exploitation response.
- Each section within the document contains important foundational information to providing a shared foundation and a trauma-aware response to children and youth who may have experienced sexual exploitation, or sex/labor trafficking.
- This can also be used to provide supplemental training, act as a standard and as a reference for continual improvement with key considerations and suggestions for further learning, as well as training and resource lists.
- The protocol guidance can be used by community and state agencies, developed specifically for those working in in the State of Nebraska and neighboring Native American tribes.
The
Improving Support and Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Trafficking in Nebraska training (video) seeks to increase your knowledge personally and within your organization about how to weave an appropriate, consistent, and effective response for child and youth victims of trafficking and ways those who respond or provide services can effectively work together to create a trauma informed approach when developing protocols.