Runaway, Homeless Youth & Trafficking Prevention

      I’m ask you to step up and be a leader on the Runaways, Homeless Youth, & Trafficking Prevention Act by reintroducing it in the 117th Congress.

      This bipartisan bill, if reintroduced, reauthorizes, expands and improves the decades old framework for protecting and supporting the vulnerable young people across urban, suburban, rural and tribal communities across this country.

      By the time they wind up on the streets, homeless youth have already been failed by our systems and people who were supposed to help keep them safe. Some have left homes disrupted by addiction or they felt unsafe or faced other family challenges or have reached aged limit of the foster care system.

      Many have not gotten the help they needed from the child welfare system and are just in survival mode, while lacking the basic necessities of life, a safe place to live, regular sources of food. All too often, they end up in the trafficker’s swoop in bait.

      Research numbers tell the story, that Between 19% and 40% of the homeless young people reported being victimized by sex and labor trafficking.

      According to the best available research from the National Network for Youth and Data from the Polaris-operated U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline shows, being a runaway or homeless is the most significant risk factor for trafficking among young people.

      However, Homeless Youths are not numbers, they are people, children just like in your home, that is, Son, Daughter, Grandchild and young adults that can become anything they set out to be with the right services, connections, help from caring adults.

      Otherwise, there are more who are likely to become trafficking victims, if we don’t take action.

Your support could make all the difference.

SIGN PETITION

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The Petition will be sent to:

Rep. David Kustoff (R)
560 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4714

US Representative, TN
John Ragon
425 Rep. John Lewis Way N.
Suite 614 Cordell Hull Bldg.
Nashville, TN 37243
Phone: (615) 741-4400

U.S. Senator, TN
Marsha Blackburn
109 South Highland Ave. # 218
Jackson, TN. 38301
Phone: 731-660-3971
Fax: 731-660-3978

Senator
Bill Hagerty
248 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4944