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Have you ordered your TAT FDP diecast yet?? As a fundraising item, TAT will receive an increasingly larger proportion of sales as sales increase! For ordering information, view the flyer here: https://lnkd.in/gYiYPzxP

TAT has 8 industry-specific, free, downloadable toolkits to help your company, organization or agency begin to combat human trafficking! Get yours at https://lnkd.in/gwk28_3d today!

Waste Connections, you sure put on a great event for your employees! Thank you for your partnership with TAT and for giving me the opportunity to spread awareness about human trafficking. Thank you to Ron Mittelstaedt, Shawn Mandel, Keith Gordon, and Michelle (Raynaud) Little for your commitment to help end human trafficking. We can’t do what we do without exceptional leaders like you all.

Please join us on October 29th in Dickinson, ND for a human trafficking awareness event designed to bring together leaders from the energy, trucking and truck stop industries with law enforcement for training, network building and to devise shared strategies to combat human trafficking. This session will focus on human trafficking in North Dakota and feature information on engagement strategies for energy companies and their contractors, as well as presentations by a survivor-leader and law enforcement. The event is free and lunch will be provided. Contact Annie Sovcik at asovcik@tatnonprofit.org with questions and to register.

Have you downloaded the TAT app yet? Our app includes red flag indicators for human trafficking, how to report it and relevant numbers to call, additional learning and more! bit.ly/TATApp

Esther Goetsch, TAT executive director, delivered one of two keynote addresses at a general session of Amazon’s RelayCon 2024 event in mid-September in Las Vegas, Nevada. Goetsch presented to a mix of fleet owners, owner-operators and industry leaders, numbering several hundred. The Freedom Drivers Project (FDP) with FDP Director Brandy Belton also received attention in the conference’s Expo Hall, with 95 people touring the FDP during the two -day event. Alex Silberman, Amazon’s North America regional leader for Social Responsibility with the Business Strategy and Integration team volunteered at the FDP throughout the event.

October 4th is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. "Growing out of the Sisters in Spirt initiative, which was led by the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) and funded by Status of Women Canada, October 4 became a day in which eleven Canadian communities held simultaneous vigils to raise awareness and honour the memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across Canada in 2006. Since then, October 4 has continued to serve as a day to hold vigils and continue to raise awareness." (Source: Sask Culture) In Canada, "Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people are murdered, abused, or disappear at shockingly high rates." (Source: Calgary Public Library). Not surprisingly, this population is also highly vulnerable to human trafficking and sexual exploitation (Source: Native Women's Association of Canada). TAT recognizes that in order to effectively combat human trafficking, we must fully understand this crime and the vulnerabilities which traffickers target. Sources and to read more: -https://lnkd.in/gMv3b8nM -https://lnkd.in/gTfxS3VF. -https://lnkd.in/gKC5Cumj

TAT is thrilled to announce the winner of our prestigious Harriet Tubman Award, presented by Progressive Insurance! Congratulations to Charles Bernsen, general manager of the Petro in Florence, South Carolina. In October 2018, Bernsen helped a woman who had escaped her human trafficker, who had been selling her for sex. Bernsen is one of 18,000 TravelCenters of America employees who receive TAT's human trafficking training annually. Yesterday, Bernsen received the award, which includes a trophy and check for $5000, from TAT Executive Director Esther Goetsch and TA CEO Debi Boffa at TA Florence, South Carolina. As a surprise, the trafficking survivor whom he helped, Nikki, also attended the award presentation. We are honored to give our Harriet Tubman Award to Charles Bernsen, and grateful to Progressive Commercial for its sponsorship! Read the press release for his full story and watch TAT's video of Nikki telling her story here: https://lnkd.in/gvs52DHG Press release: https://lnkd.in/gPq8zhGn

In September, at the 13th annual International Association of Human Trafficking Investigators Conference in Clearwater, Florida, TAT had the opportunity to network and reconnect with law enforcement, prosecutors and service providers on how to collaboratively work on combating human trafficking. This three-day conference brought together key stakeholders in the anti-trafficking movement on ways to create best practices in combating this crime.

Tune in as we explore how TAT is making a difference in the fight against human trafficking by helping to identify and support victims. Disclaimer: This episode may be triggering for those who have experienced or are familiar with human trafficking.