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Research and Resources

Every child deserves to be safe, and every caring adult deserves the right tools to help protect them. This page was created for parents, grandparents, nonprofits, and friends like you who want to stand guard over the next generation. Inside, you’ll find trusted research, practical resources, and hope-filled guidance—tools you can rely on to keep children safe and supported.

Get the Cyber Dive Aqua One Smartphone to Help Monitor Your Child's Online Risks

We’re proud to be partnered with Cyber Dive to help parents monitor the safety of their children’s in their social media interactions.

This company is not only dedicated to child safety, but to helping survivors find restoration at Where Hope Lives.

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Arizona Human Trafficking Council's Prevention & Intervention Report

Through this report, the Arizona Human Trafficking Council (the Council) has summarized critical areas of work to prevent and combat human trafficking and exploitation across eleven critical sectors.

Through the combined efforts of state and local government, non-profits, law enforcement, universities, and the community at-large, Arizona is creating systemic change to prevent and combat human trafficking.

State Report Cards: Grading Criminal Record Relief Laws for Survivors of Human Trafficking

By its very definition, the crime of human trafficking involves people participating in some activity against their will. Often those activities are illegal – prostitution, selling drugs, shoplifting – and trafficking victims are arrested and charged with a crime. This tragically ironic scenario is extremely common.

A survey found that 91% of survivor respondents had a criminal record as a result of being trafficked. A criminal record, even an arrest without a conviction, often leads to doors being slammed shut. Its time to put laws in place that allow trafficking survivors to have their records cleared and move on with their lives.

What happens to girls AFTER they get recovered out of human trafficking?

According to the International Labor Organization, less than 1% of girls get recovered out of human trafficking.

So when a girl or young woman arrives to the Phoenix Dream Center, we count it a miracle.

And, every moment that she spends in a Dream Room is a miracle.

But those miracles don’t just happen by themselves.

Every day people who care about these girls are sponsoring their healing journey.

Today you can sponsor a girl or young woman as she goes through healing in a “Dream Room”.

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Human Trafficking 101 Class Presented by Arizona State University

It is imperative that all educators/administrators that will utilize this material have a clear understanding of the issue of sex trafficking before they begin teaching students about the issue.