Each year in the U. Sadly, this problem is also relevant in our own city. The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives the second most calls from Texas, with 15 percent of those calls coming from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Thankfully, we have some wonderful organizations in Denton County already working to prevent and help heal victims of sex trafficking.
The industry is growing, but that is not stopping these organizations from coming together to intervene and love our neighbors well. Serve Denton organized a collaboration breakfast on Friday, December 4, for organizations that work with sex trafficking victims.
We proposed creating a Denton County Human Trafficking Group, similar to a coalition, to share resources, help educate each other on the industry and better support our community as a whole. Kim Hinkle,. Founder of the Poiema Foundation, Rebecca Jowers told a story about a young, fourteen year-old victim of trafficking. Leslie pseudonym went to court. As she sat across from her perpetrator, she had no family or friends present to support. Her pimp, on the other hand, had his mother, who rented the hotel room for him to take advantage of this young girl, along with about 10 others sitting behind him.
This is where Poiema comes into play β they send a team of seven women to support the victims when they have no one else. They enter into the hard times with the women and become their family! This is all just the beginning! If you would like to be involved in this collaboration, please contact our Collaboration Program Manager Hannah Peters at hpeters servedenton. Thank you! You have been signed up to receive our monthly volunteer newsletter.
