When school is out, essential supports like meals, counseling, and consistent adult guidance pause for the season. We’ve seen that traffickers will try to exploit that gap. But right now, Love146’s Survivor Care team is showing up to help keep youth safe and connected to both a caring professional and the community supports they need all summer long.
We’ve hit our goal for our donative revenue and are starting out our new fiscal year on a stronger foot today, because of supporters like you!
New Connecticut Law Expands Support for Youth Impacted by Trafficking
An important bill informed by Love146 has officially passed both chambers and is now Connecticut law, becoming Public Act 25-139. The new law expands anti-discrimination protections for survivors, increases access to prevention training, strengthens the state’s anti-trafficking council, and creates an affirmative defense for youth charged with crimes tied to their own exploitation. This is a big win for a more just and trauma-informed response to child trafficking in Connecticut. Love146 and our supporters were part of making it happen!
Love146 Training Professionals in OR, NE, WI, IL, CT, and KY
This summer, Love146’s Prevention Education team will be all over the country, training professionals to facilitate Not A Number and reach youth.
Love146 is looking for great people to join our team! We’re hiring a Chief Development Officer and a Survivor Care Social Worker. Learn more and apply today.
Critical Feedback Helped Love146 Transform Our Approach to Lived Experience
In this piece for openDemocracy, Erin Williamson asks a question that’s shaped her two decades in this work: How do we hold space for complexity, for disagreement, for growth, and still move forward together?
“After doing some research and figuring out that Love146 is legit, I decided to contribute monthly. Their dedicated staff and well-run organization has a heart and I believe love really is at the center of that. Anything we can do to move in the right direction needs to be supported. I honestly can’t really dwell on the stories or details of work that’s done with survivors because it makes me so incredibly sad. So even though I can’t be hands-on, I will continue to monetarily support Love146.”
Founded in 2002, Love146 journeys alongside children impacted by trafficking today and prevents the trafficking of children tomorrow. Our prevention education and survivor care work has impacted more than 80,000 young people. Our work is achieved through the power of relationships and collaboration, listening to those with lived experience, scaling proven practices, and challenging the systems that leave children vulnerable. Our core commitment is to do what is best for children.
*No identifiable children featured in Love146 communications are known to be exploited. Some names and details have been changed for the privacy
