by Katrina C., Youth Educator TDVAM is a national, ongoing effort to draw attention to (and ultimately prevent) harmful relationship realities experienced by youth. Just because it’s a teen relationship does not mean it’s any less impactful. In fact, our formative dating experiences can greatly influence our subsequent relationships. The behaviors that become familiar…
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Tompkins County Safe Harbour Team Celebrates Seven Years
Beginning in 2015, Tompkins County was awarded funding to become a Safe Harbour County by New York State. This meant that we were provided resources to begin the process of formally developing a coordinated response, raising community awareness, and educating community members around the issue of sex trafficking of youth, referred to as the Commercial…
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There are youth in Tompkins County who have been sex trafficked or targeted for sexual exploitation. Does that surprise you? If it does, that is not surprising. Many people have a narrow idea of what sex trafficking “looks like” – based on news articles or tv shows and movies – which can make it hard…
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