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Article contributed by Rosalie John
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What to know and how to be safe this holiday season.
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Self-care encourages you to maintain a healthy relationship with yourself.
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What exactly does that mean? Today is a day where we as everyday consumers can acknowledge and recognize the plaguing issue that is Human Trafficking. For those of you that don’t already know, human trafficking is defined as the force, fraud, or coercion used to exploit a person into slave labor or sexual exploitation.
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At Friend To Friend, we work with clients of many backgrounds and with many different experiences. In order to offer the most supportive services, we use a trauma-informed lens. This means that we are committed to creating an environment that fosters safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and that takes into account the cultural, historical, and gender issues that people face. It also means that we recognize that peoples’ behavior can often be rooted in a trauma response.
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National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, or SAAM, is an annual observance on behalf of sexual assault victims, survivors, and their families. It’s a time to raise awareness in the fight to prevent and stop sexual assault.
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Stalking remains a crime which is poorly understood and often misrepresented in the media or popular culture. Rather than being a random nuisance or harmless prank, this type of abusive harassment is surprisingly common, and is often frequent, costly, and emotionally devastating.
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Human traffickers haven’t closed their “business” nor observed social distancing in response to COVID-19. In fact what has been a challenge for most of us has been an opportunity to increase their business as seen in the fact that through June, 2020, calls to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported a 90% increase in calls of “online enticement” compared to the same time the year before.
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In March 2020, as the virus was spreading throughout the country, the FBI issued a warning to parents regarding the presence of sexual predators on the internet.
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“How are you feeling?” It’s a simple question we encounter quite often in life (even more in the age of Covid). But how often do we answer honestly? How often do we actually know the honest answer?
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