We’re hosting our first ever online auction here at Child Rescue and there are some awesome items up for grabs! The auction is to help sponsor police officers to come to our upcoming training where they will learn valuable techniques and tactics to better combat human trafficking. Among the items at the auction are:

A lifestyle photo session with Vanessa of VR Photography

An Alaskan Sportfishing Trip for 2 from Waterfall Resort

And Custom Canvas Pop Art from Urban Design Studio

Check out the auction at http://giveawaysforacause.org and support the training of our officers and a big step towards the eradication of human trafficking!

As most of you know, we’re holding an online auction in a few days to raise some funds for our police training to take the burden off of the individual officers. We’re still accepting donations for the auction, so if you have an etsy shop, business or know someone who does, we’d love any items you can offer!

A survivor extends an invite to law enforcement to become trained to better combat human trafficking.

In this interview, Lindsay Hadley talks about the Arbinger metric and how it made her organization more effective and even helped lead to a million dollar financial donation.

Child Rescue invites Law Community to attend the

First Annual Human Trafficking Law Enforcement Training

Who Is Child Rescue?

What will the training cover?

Is Accreditation available for attending the training?

1$ can make a difference! Please help us raise enough money to fund our First Annual Law Enforcement Training, which will be held June 1^st 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah. This training will ensure that police officers receive the training and resources needed to protect our children and rescue those who are enslaved in our communities.

How It Works

We have a goal of raising $5,850.00 to cover the balance of the costs for our upcoming Law Enforcement Training. You can go to http://tippingbucket.org/ and donate as little as 1$ to the cause, if we reach our goal by April 21st (10 days from now) credit cards are charged and we get the donations, but if we don’t reach our goal, nobody is charged and we don’t get any of the money. Make sense? That’s why we need YOUR HELP to reach our goal! Every drop in the bucket helps!
So please, donate a dollar and help us Tip this Bucket. For more information and to donate go to http://tippingbucket.org/

If you’re in the Utah area you’ve probably seen a lot of media coverage on Human Trafficking lately. Unfortunately though, it’s not success stories you’re hearing, it’s that one of our partners and friends, the Utah Health and Human Rights Project (UHHR) will no longer be offering services to victims of human trafficking due to threats they have received. It’s really sad that they have to shut down their services, especially because they were monumental in helping so many people to freedom and recovery. The UHHR was Utah’s leading organization to provide assistance to survivors of such atrocious acts.

It’s interesting how you could take this though… I’m sure many of you see this as a victory for the traffickers, being able to shut down such an amazing organization’s services… I see it as threatening… to the traffickers. They obviously see the impact that organizations such as the UHHR are having in our society, and are worried about their “business”, or maybe even have found it more difficult to continue “business” with so much light being shed on their heinous acts. I completely understand UHHR’s reasons for stopping their services… how can you help others if you’re unable to help yourself? The threats they have been receiving were increasing in frequency as well as severity, they were concerned about the safety of their clients and staff. Such an organization should be run in close quarters with the police and have sufficient security and safe houses. Hopefully, Utah’s Human Trafficking Task Force will see the need for such security measures and there will soon be another shelter to offer aid for victims of human trafficking.

To read the full news stories please follow the links below:

KSL

Deseret News

I came across this article the other day and thought it was super interesting. Basically, this woman couldn’t sleep at night and went online to her favorite little blog hub, where a fellow blogger posted a plea. He had two friends from Russia who were in the US and promised jobs, which had fallen through. Stranded in a new country, they were then given a phone number and told to call “George” for a new job in which they’d have to hop a bus to New York and meet with “George” at a night club at midnight. Daniel (the friend) immediately knew something was up and tried to get the girls to reconsider, when they wouldn’t, he pled to his fellow bloggers who came to their rescue and stopped a potential and probable human trafficking ring from taking advantage of his two young friends.

Check out the following link to read the full story:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-22/metafilter-sex-slavery-saga-russian-targets-speak-out/

Child Rescue’s Executive Director, Lindsay Hadley was interviewed by Seth Adam of Arbinger. Child Rescue’s board of directors and senior level employees have received training and are all well versed in the Arbinger methods, which they apply to both their personal lives and relationships as well as Child Rescue, and relationships therein. Arbinger helps you to see relationships and people in a new way, and has really helped to create an amazing working relationships within the Child Rescue community.

Check out the link below to read the article with Lindsay.

Arbinger Interview with Child Rescue’s Lindsay Hadley