Anti-Trafficking International (ATI)

We recognize the invaluable asset of our youth in combatting human trafficking and
strives to create future leaders. Since its beginning, Since its beginning, the
organization has maintained a Student Advisory Council, a unique opportunity for
youth to serve on an advisory board and drive our youth-focused work. Students
take on leadership roles, design and implement their own initiatives, and provide
critical feedback and direction to other initiatives.

We aim to give the entire community the tools
to educate and empower others, leverage community leaders to illustrate the vital roles
that families, local businesses, the health care system, and law enforcement have to
play; and provide the materials that allow safety nets to form throughout the
community.
We work within communities to develop sustainable solutions that
support integrating survivors into these communities. Our jobs program engage who
service providers and businesses by identifying key stakeholders can prepare trafficking
survivor for the workforce while simultaneously preparing private companies to adopt
workplace environments that are favorable to survivors.

No one is closer to the frontlines of combatting human trafficking than parents.
Traffickers target children as young as toddlers, and the need to educate and equip
parents to recognize and appropriately respond to possible threats is an urgent
modern reality. Misinformation and inaccurate stereotypes are prevalent, and there is
a deficit of accurate education for parents about how their children are targeted and
how to respond if their child has already been targeted or becomes a victim of
trafficking. One of our most unique programs seeks to fill this gap in services for
parents through education and resources. We partner with experts in the field as well
as trafficking survivors to educate parents about human trafficking and support
parents after a child has been trafficked. We also leverage a vetted pool of
compassionate volunteers to assist in program delivery and other support functions.

Access to relevant and effective advanced training is one of the biggest challenges to
eradicating human trafficking. Professionals on the frontlines such as law enforcement,
social workers, and health care professionals are not properly equipped to identify and
respond to human trafficking. In a recent study with law enforcement professionals,
they cited this as the number one challenge they face in trying to safeguard their
communities from human trafficking. ATI has trained tens of thousands of
professionals in a variety of fields. Not only do these training sessions empower and
embolden professionals to help rescue youth, they have directly led to the
identification of victims and the prosecution of offenders.

Law enforcement officials are the primary rescue agent in the battle to recover youth;
however, their resources are stretched thin. Police departments are tasked with
increasing responsibilities while under greater public scrutiny. One of the most
valuable tools for law enforcement in effectively addressing the complex crime of
human trafficking is the use of actionable intelligence. NHTIC speeds up the process
to recover exploited youth by providing intelligence directly to law enforcement,
helping them respond quickly to suspected instances of human trafficking and
recovering victims faster.