ANNOUNCING!
JuST LIVE! State Action. National Change.
This year, Shared Hope will be hitting “pause” on our regular JuST Conference content to bring you a special series from the Shared Hope Institute for Justice and Advocacy - JuST LIVE! State Action. National Change. webinar series.
Throughout the month of October, this series of free webinars will introduce 6 key issue areas that form the Advanced Legislative Framework, which the Institute for Justice & Advocacy is excited to release on Wednesday, November 18. The JuST LIVE! State Action. National Change. webinar series will track these issue areas with two presentations keyed to critical aspects of advancing protections for child victims under each issue area.
Registration for the JuST LIVE! State Action. National Change. webinar series is FREE! You can register for as many webinars in the series as you would like. To register, simply add each item to your cart and be sure to check-out. Not sure which webinars you’d like to attend now? No worries, you can always register for more at a later date.
What is the Advanced Legislative Framework?
It is comprised of the provisions that are still needed in state law to ensure a just response is provided to minor victims of sex trafficking. It builds on the foundation established over the past 10 years by Shared Hope's Protected Innocence Challenge legislative framework, which has been used to grade the states every year since 2011. The Protected Innocence Challenge project was our vision for motivating states to improve legislation that impacts the sex trafficking of minors. Ten years of grassroots mobilization, advocacy, technical assistance, and consistent collaboration has advanced the vision considerably.
All states now have a child sex trafficking law and most states have made significant progress in enacting laws that protect victims and hold perpetrators accountable; collectively, the country has made significant progress in those matters. However, little has been done to address and fund specialized services for victims or adequately address root causes such as demand. The past decade has also led to new research and opportunities to listen to survivors, bringing ever increasing clarity to the law and policy that must be in place to actually, finally, put an end to the sex trafficking of minors. It became clear that now is the time to raise the bar and challenge states to enact an advanced framework of laws for the protection of child sex trafficking victims.
The following are the six issue areas that will be addressed by the webinar series:
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