Suspect Human Trafficking?

If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 911.

Forced labor is 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. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(11)(B)).

Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(11)(A)).

If it appears that someone is being compelled to work or engage in commercial sex through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, or if an individual engaging in commercial sex is under the age of 18, this may be human trafficking and should be reported.
Report to the National Human Trafficking Hotline
- We highly recommend you visit National Human Trafficking Hotline's Report page and review the questions they will ask, before possibly coming across a situation that needs reported. This will allow you to observe, collect, and document helpful details and information regarding the potential victim and/or potential trafficker. If you have or are able to set up continued communication with the potential victim or if they are willing to talk to national human trafficking hotline themselves regarding their situation, you can provide them with the hotline number or provide their phone number to the hotline. Learn More

Ongoing relationship, friendship, or communication when possible, with a likely target of human trafficking or a potential victim is important for
- preventing people from becoming victims
- providing detailed informative reports to the national human trafficking hotline
- educating the potential victim on the definition of human trafficking, which they may not be familiar with or recognize that it is happening to them.
- assisting with the potential victim in escaping their situation or receiving services available to them.
- preventing potential victims from returning to their trafficker once they escape.
BE A FRIEND is Regenerate's 8-hour training designed to train churches to prevent human trafficking in their community. To learn more about BE A FRIEND or other Regenerate trainings and prevention strategies Contact Us.