Resources: Minor Sex Trafficking
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Organizations
- GEMS, The Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) is an organization in New York State specifically designed to serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. GEMS’ programming is gender responsive, trauma informed, developmentally grounded, strengths based, social justice oriented, and culturally competent.
- MISSEY (Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, and Serving Sexually Exp#558A20) is a community-based organization that provides comprehensive services to sexually exploited youth in Alameda County, CA. MISSEY also works to provide information to the community and government about the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
- Prax(us) is a survivor and youth-led organization in Colorado that works with homeless youth who are involved in or vulnerable to trafficking. Their community organizing project, Hartcore, is dedicated to ending domestic human trafficking in Colorado and helping homeless youth.
- Rights4girls is a human rights organization focused on gender-based violence and its impact on vulnerable young women and girls in the U.S. Based in Washington, D.C., Rights4Girls works to make the lives of U.S. young women and girls a human rights priority through policy change.
- Streetwise & Safe, an anti-oppression and empowerment organization that works with LGBTQQ youth of color in New York City.
- Streetwork Project works with homeless and street-based young people in New York City, some of whom have experiences trading sex.
Fact/Tip Sheets
- Young Women’s Empowerment Project’s (YWEP) fact sheet about teen girls and young women in the sex trade
- YWEP’s helpful tips the reproductive justice movement can use to support girls, women and transgender people of color involved in the sex trade & sex work
- YWEP’s tips for providers who work with young people who trade sex
Research Studies
- Participatory action research study: Girls Do What They Have to Do to Survive: Illuminating Methods Used by Girls in the Sex Trade and Street Economy to Fight Back and Heal
Recordings
- An interview with Alexandra Lutnick, Ph.D. about young people who trade sex
