FINDING MEANING...Connecting the dots...

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Human trafficking -- Stop the silence - Catalleya Storm | TEDxDayton

Catalleya Storm is a junior at Wright State University
studying political science and business management
and aspires to further study law and criminal justice.
A human-trafficking survivor, Catalleya focuses their
passion on abolishing human trafficking in their lifetime.
Catalleya is the founder and president of the student
organization Generation Freedom Makers to raise
awareness among Ohio's universities.
As a writer, philanthropist, survivor and abolitionist,
Catalleya strives to educate and inspire others to
create brighter present and future.

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Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Young Lives, Insane Profit - Yolanda Schlabach | TEDxWilmington

This talk is eye-opening and heart-breaking. Yolanda Schlabach
shows the reality of sex-trafficking in the State of Delaware, a
terribly unrecognized and under-prosecuted state of affairs. She
guides us through the process by which girls are trapped, and
eventually lose their independent identity.

Yolanda is a Registered Nurse. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in
Organizational Leadership and Management from Regent University
in 2004 and graduated in 2014 from Liberty University with a
Master’s in Human Services & Counseling. Yolanda attended the
University of Maryland, earning a Certificate in Working with
Survivors of Violence, Trauma and Torture. Yolanda is a member o
f Delaware’s Human Trafficking Coordinating Council and Co-Chair
of the Victim Services Committee.
Yolanda has served as Executive Director of Zoë Ministries, Inc.
since 2012, when the organization received 501©3 status. For the
past few years, she has spent her time engaged in public awareness
and professional education to bring the reality of human trafficking
to the forefront in Delaware.

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Look Again: Sex Trafficking in your Own Backyard - Elizabeth Melendez Fisher | TEDxOakParkWomen

Elizabeth Melendez Fisher, Selah Freedom CEO
and President, gives a surprising look into the
world of sex trafficking and challenges communities
to look again at this issue. Her passionate approach
stretches our understanding of this matter from
being an “over-there” problem, taking place in
third-world countries and unleashes the realities
of what it looks like in our own backyard. She
shares eye opening realities about how
girls and boys are lured into this industry
and brings to light the root issues which
have allowed it to thrive within our own nation.

Elizabeth Melendez Fisher, CEO/President leads
Selah Freedom, a national organization, providing
solutions to local victims of sex trafficking. Fisher
has been described as, “Part healer, part
businesswoman, all resolve—if Selah Freedom
is bringing light into the darkness, as the slogan
says, then Fisher is the one behind the megawatt.”
Selah Freedom educates over 45,000 annually, has
residential safe houses in Florida and Chicago, leads
at-risk teen prevention programs, and trains and
equips law enforcement agencies.

Fisher speaks nationally about the root of
sex trafficking, received the prestigious
Tampa Bay Business Woman of the Year
Award for the Nonprofit Category in 2014
and has been featured in various media outlets.
Prior to Selah Freedom, Fisher worked in the
Chicago area as a therapist and in leadership
development. She is a graduate of Southern
Illinois University with a bachelor of arts in
communications and a Master’s in Clinical Psychology.

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Sex Trafficking in Your Back Yard | Vednita Carter | TEDxMinneapolis
Vednita Carter is the Founder and
President of Breaking Free, a nonprofit
direct service provider in St Paul fighting to
end all forms of prostitution and sex trafficking.
She is an influential abolitionist, author, speaker, and
survivor of sexual exploitation.

Vednita Carter is the founder and executive
director of Breaking Free, a non-profit
organization that educates and provides
services to women and girls who have been
victims of abuse and commercial sexual
exploitation (prostitution/sex trafficking) and
need assistance escaping the violence in their lives.
She has extensive experience in developing and planning
programs for sex trafficked women and girls, and
was awarded the Norma Hotaling Award for her
life-long service to victims of sex trafficking.
She was recently named a CNN Hero for her
work in ending sexual exploitation of women
and girls.Also in 2013, she traveled to the
Middle East and Asia to educate service providers
and community members on Breaking Free's pioneering
work. Vednita was awarded the prestigious
Path Breaker Award from Shared Hope International
for her tireless efforts to reduce the demand for
commercial sex. She has dedicated her life to
advocating for, rescuing and restoring victims of prostitution.

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Hero Flight Attendant Saves Girl From
Human Trafficking | Good Morning Britain

Shelia Frederick talks about how she managed
to save a young girl from being abducted aboard
a flight to San Francisco.

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If you or anyone you know needs help call:

"Domestic Trafficking Hotlines

Share
Human Trafficking is a crime involving the
exploitation of someone for the purposes of
compelled labor or a commercial sex act
through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.

Where a person younger than 18 is induced to
perform a commercial sex act, it is a crime regardless
of whether there is any force, fraud, or coercion.
Victims can be anyone from around the world or
right next door: women and men, adults and children,
citizens and noncitizens alike.

GET HELP REPORT A TIP LEARN MORE

PLEASE Call the National Human Trafficking Resource
Center at 1-888-373-7888 to:

GET HELP and connect with a service provider in your area."

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Understanding the mind of a narcissist

"How narcissists view themselves and others?
What strategies they use to meet their narcissistic needs?
What sort of damage can narcissists do to people?
Watch to get answers to these questions."


The emotion at the heart of narcissism

"In this video I detail the core emotion that fuels
the narcissistic personality disorder.
Understanding this will help you discover the
key motivations that fuel narcissism.
I also discuss the underlying personality
structure that is hidden beneath the
narcissistic personality disorder."

Abdul Saad
Clinical Psychologist from Australia

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