Prevent Human Trafficking. Intercept Human Trafficking. Change the Ideas that Lead to Human Trafficking.
In 2013 ATI founder, Detective Bill Woolf, recovered a seventeen-year-old victim of human trafficking. Despite having a loving family and community, Emily was subjected to countless sexual assaults arranged by her trafficker for three years before being identified. Her grades had dropped, her behavior changed, and eventually counselors, school officials, and even the courts got involved. But no one recognized the signs of trafficking. When asked how this went unnoticed, she simply said, “No one ever asked.” This is why we teach students and professional organizations all around the world to recognize human trafficking and Just Ask. Just Ask Prevention curriculum was developed to teach children to understand what human trafficking is so they can identify it and protect themselves and others.
Reaching more than 250,000 youth every year in 3 countries, we are the leader in prevention curriculum.
What is TRAP?
An imminent curriculum initiative, Trafficking Resistance, Awareness, and Prevention (TRAP), will be the first school-based program that partners with local law enforcement—school resource officers (SROs)—to create a direct line of defense to actively protect and prevent children from becoming victims of human trafficking.
Our Curriculum
Our evidence-based curriculum is unique to any other. We know your schools and professional organizations have diverse needs and challenges. That’s why we adapt our curriculum to your environment by providing either a comprehensive program for your school or organization or simply supplementing your existing program with evidence-based education on recognizing and stopping human trafficking. Just Ask is a self-sustaining program that trains teachers with a working knowledge about the realities of human trafficking so that they are empowered to teach their students.
Problem
Through our extensive work in the field, Safe House Project consistently finds teens and young adults are manipulated into trafficking scenarios due to a lack of knowledge and awareness.
Solution
Based on this conclusion, we developed comprehensive evidence-based human trafficking prevention curriculum rooted in best practices for curriculum development and implementation. Just Ask curriculum not only raises awareness on the issue of human trafficking but also provides vital skills for prevention and intervention.
Customized Curriculum
- Our core curriculum was developed by professional curriculum developers using actual case examples.
- The curriculum can be customized to meet the needs of public school districts, private institutions, or even in a homeschool setting with the intent to educate, prevent, and intervene.
- We provide a “one-stop shop” that covers all stages of trafficking and provides students with information that they can apply to safeguard themselves and their peers.
- The “3 To Succeed” curriculum (for younger students) uses lessons and classroom activities for children to develop a healthy support network of adults creating a safety net to safeguard against future threats.
- With the resonating themes of consent, respect, choice, hope, and community responsibility, our curriculum program empowers students with awareness and knowledge to combat this form of modern-day slavery.
- The structure of the lessons brings consistency to the classroom or other instructional setting and provides instructors with material that is attention grabbing and real. The true, anecdotal stories make the lessons engaging and cultivate discussions in the class that are impactful.
Our Approach
We meet with educational institutions and professional organizations to determine their specific needs and restrictions. Then we adapt the curriculum to include these needs as well as incorporate local resources for students, parents and teachers. Doing so makes our curriculum more culturally relevant and realistic to the types of trafficking situations students may see in their community.
Our Impact
Our curriculum currently reaches over 250,000 students annually and has saved countless lives.
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