Internet Safety Month is an opportunity to pause, learn, and act. With more time spent online during summer months, we must ensure every child, parent, caregiver, educator, and youth leader is equipped to recognize risks and take preventative action. Below, we’ve gathered trusted resources for each key audience so you can confidently learn, engage, and help empower others. Resources …
5 Things We Love About CASA/GAL: Highlighting the Power of Advocacy
May was National Foster Care Month – a time to raise awareness, affirm our commitment to children and youth in foster care, and highlight the incredible efforts of those who support them. At Engage Together®, we believe this is the perfect time to spotlight a powerhouse organization making a real difference: the National CASA/GAL Association for Children. Through a national …
The 4 Benefits to Your Community of an Engage Together® Project
What is an Engage Together® Project? An Engage Together® Project is a transformational community assessment project designed to accelerate efforts to end and prevent human trafficking and to care for those impacted by it. Through our collaborative process and award-winning technologies, the project equips communities with critical data insights – revealing where current efforts are strong, where gaps remain, what urgent needs exist, and …
Highlighting Women Who Have Moved the Movement to Prevent and End Human Trafficking Forward
This Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting a special group of women who are friends of Engage Together® that have contributed much of their time and talents to moving the anti-human trafficking movement forward. Representing businesses, technologists, healthcare, law enforcement, non-profits, survivor leaders, task forces, universities, and more, these women became aware of the realities of human trafficking and took action …
Stories of Community Impact This National Human Trafficking Prevention Month
January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Since 2010, our nation has dedicated January to raising awareness and promoting education about the reality of human trafficking, which is currently a multibillion-dollar annual industry with over 50 million victims worldwide. This reality is staggering, but something we know to be true at Engage Together® is that while human trafficking is a …
The Importance of Human Trafficking Reforms: 8 Bills Currently Before Congress That You Can Support
Amending existing or creating new legislation is one way a world of impact can be made in the fight to end and prevent human trafficking. This month, we’ve gathered a list of bills currently before Congress that we support. We invite you to spend some time familiarizing yourself with these proposed bills, and then, encourage you to use the resources …
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is July 30th: Questions, Answers, and Resources to Help You Take Action
Each year on July 30th, the United Nations and the international community commemorate the day as World Day Against Trafficking in Persons to raise awareness and encourage action. This is the 10th anniversary of World Day, and this year’s theme is “leave no child behind in the fight to end human trafficking.” To commemorate World Day this month, spend some …
It’s Online Safety Month & Travel Season: Resources and Tools to Help Set You and Your Family Up for Success This Summer
Human trafficking is a crime that often involves travel – traffickers move victims by many methods including cars, planes, trains, and buses and between countries, states, or cities. This summer, take a few moments to view the following list of information and resources that will help you become a more vigilant and perceptive traveler – in your own community and …
Prevent Child Abuse Year-Round: Tools & Strategies for You & Your Community
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and as we round out this month, we would like to highlight resources and tools that advocate for child abuse prevention and provide important information about this topic. Preventing child abuse starts in the home, and two helpful starting points for parents, caregivers, and families are learning how to help your kids safely and …
Engage in Your Local Community Through the Gift of Giving
This holiday season, we at Engage Together want to encourage you to consider how you can make a difference in your local community, right where you are, by blessing an organization, group, or family who may be in need. We’ve outlined some practical ways you can purchase gifts for families and children, get in touch with local organizations that can …