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The growing emphasis on recognizing, addressing, and preventing human trafficking is an emerging issue challenging many government and human service agencies. Child welfare is especially affected because children and youth placed in out-of-home care due to abuse and neglect, along with runaway and homeless youth, are at high risk of trafficking.
Effectively addressing human trafficking requires agencies to collaborate on providing judicial, therapeutic, and prevention services. …
This podcast episode of Reveal explores the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children involved in Texas's foster care system. Children involved in the system tell their stories of their lives in foster care and how their experiences led them to run, and then recruited into the sex trafficking industry.
To listen to the podcast episode "No Place to Run," please click the link below. To read the podcast summary from the Texas Tribune, please click the image to the right.