The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, r coercion or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
The Kentucky Department for Community Based Services gratefully acknowledges the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime, for allowing us to reproduce, in whole, Faces of Human Trafficking Video 6: Focus on Youth. This video was prepared by the Office for Victims of Crime. Discussion Guide
Very Young Girls: https://vimeo.com/60571430
By Rachel Lloyd, GEMS
Critically acclaimed by the New York Times and film festivals around the world, Very Young Girls is an exposé of human trafficking that follows 13- and 14-year-old American girls as they are seduced, abused, and sold on New York’s streets by pimps, and treated as adult criminals by police. The film follows the barely-adolescent girls in real time, using vérité and intimate interviews with them as they are first lured on to the streets and the dire events that follow.
Girls Lke Us
By Rachel Lloyd, Founder and CEO of GEMS
In Girls Like Us, Lloyd reveals the dark world of commercial sex trafficking in cinematic detail and tells the story of her groundbreaking nonprofit organization: GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). With great humanity, she shares the stories of the girls whose lives GEMS has helped—small victories that have healed her wounds and made her whole. Revelatory, authentic, and brave, Girls Like Us is an unforgettable memoir.
A Survivor’s Guide to Leaving
By Sheila White and Rachel Lloyd
The Survivor’s Guide to Leaving is a groundbreaking book designed to support survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. The Survivor’s Guide to Leaving shares stories, tips and ideas from survivors to help navigate the challenges during those early months of exiting. Inspired by the questions and concerns of thousands of girls and young women throughout GEMS’ 20 years of programming, the book was written by survivors to directly address those common questions.
Designed as a youth-friendly book with colorful graphics, including illustrations by survivors, The Survivor’s Guide to Leaving is recommended as a vital resource for commercially sexually exploited youth (and adults). This book can be purchased in bulk orders to ensure that all youth in your program have this invaluable book to support them through their individual journeys of leaving and healing.
NOTE: If you are the caregiver of a survivor, please contact Danielle.Khoury@ky.gov to request a copy of The Survivor’s Guide to Leaving. This resource is available to child and youth survivors of human trafficking through the Kentucky Department for Community Based Services with the support of grant 2020-NZ-NX-0003-00, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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