RESOURCES

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This is not an exhaustive list of resources, nor is it an endorsement of everything that is presented in these pieces. You’ll rarely find a full piece that uses your favored perspective, level of explicitness, or correct language. We encourage you to carefully, yet courageously, learn from the stories and expertise of the survivors, directors, therapists, and world-changers represented here. (If you would like to recommend a resource to be added, please contact us.)

BOOKS

Passport Through Darkness by Kimberly L. Smith

Renting Lacy
by Linda Smith

Rescuing Hope
by Susan Norris

Runaway Girl
by Carissa Phelps

Scars and Stilettos
by Harmony Dust Grillo

Sex Trafficking Prevention
by Savannah Sanders

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
by Siddharth Kara

Slave Next Door
by Kevin Bales

 DOCUMENTARIES: SEX TRAFFICKING

I AM JANE DOE chronicles the battle that several mothers across the country are waging on behalf of their middle school daughters who were trafficked for commercial sex on Backpage.com.

IN PLAIN SIGHT seeks to raise awareness of the thousands of women and children who are forced, coerced, or deceived into the commercial sex trade each year in the United States.

IRRECLAIMABLE lifts the veil of secrecy from sex trafficking in the southeastern U.S. and traces its roots to a long lineage of abuse in western society.

NEFARIOUS: MERCHANT OF SOULS exposes the disturbing trends of modern day sex slavery by showing where slaves are sold, where they work, and where they are confined.

OPERATION TOUSSAINT
Tim Ballard left his post as a special agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to go undercover to rescue child sex trafficking victims that he couldn't save when bound by government restrictions.

PLAYGROUND
Libby Spears investigates the sexual exploitation of children and traces the epidemic to its disparate, and decidedly domestic, roots — among them the way children are educated about sex.

SEX TRAFFICKING IN AMERICA
Stories of young women coerced into prostitution – and one police unit that’s committed to rooting out sexual exploitation. The film shines a light on the hidden reality of sex trafficking in America.

THE ABOLITIONISTS
Tim Ballard assembles a team of highly specialized individuals that then infiltrates trafficking organizations. It follows the rescue of 57 children from slavery and the arrest and incarceration of their 7 traffickers.

TRICKED offers the definitive portrait of sex trafficking in America today. The culmination of three years of filming in cities across the country, the film chronicles the girls, pimps, johns, parents and law enforcement.

VERY YOUNG GIRLS is the story of a group of girls in New York City who were prostituted as early as the age of 12. They have found safe haven at GEMS, where they receive love and guidance as they try to heal and find a new direction.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is a powerful documentary about human trafficking, sexual slavery, and prostitution, discusses the reality of the human sex trade occurring around the world and right in our own backyard.

 DOCUMENTARIES: LABOR TRAFFICKING

BECOMING A SLAVERY-FREE BUSINESS
There’s slavery in every shopping mall in America. From cocoa, coffee and clothing, to cars, computers and cell phones—many products sold in the U.S. are tainted by slavery.

FOOD CHAINS
In the US, farm labor has always been one of the most difficult and poorly paid jobs and has relied on some of the nation's most vulnerable people.

THE DARK SIDE OF CHOCOLATE
A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry.

TRAFFICKED IN AMERICA
An investigation into how teenagers from Central America were smuggled into the U.S. by traffickers to force them to live and work in virtual slavery to pay off their debt.

THE TRUE COST (TRAILER) is an unprecedented project that invites us on an eye-opening journey into the lives of the many people and places behind our clothes.

 OTHER RESOURCES

DOWNLOADS:
10 Ways to Take Action
by Shared Hope International

Child Sex Trafficking Warning Signs
by Shared Hope International

SAFE HOMES:
Human Trafficking Hotline Directory
National Shelter Landscape Map