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Dear John,
It’s hard to believe that it has been 10 years since Shared Hope developed the nation’s first legal Framework that challenged states to enact laws that comprehensively address the crime of child sex trafficking. When we launched the Protected Innocence Challenge project – and issued the inaugural State Report Cards - the majority of states received an “F” grade, reflecting the reality that many states’ laws failed to even recognize the crime of child sex trafficking. Over the last 10 years, we have been working to lay the foundation for transformational policy, practice, and cultural change by supporting state legislators and stakeholders to enact the minimum fabric of laws needed to address these heinous crimes. With your help, 10 years later, no state received an “F” grade, and a majority of the country received an “A” or “B.”
The Protected Innocence Challenge project was our vision for mobilizing collective state action to ensure national change. Ten years of grassroots mobilization, advocacy, technical assistance, and consistent collaboration has allowed this vision to become reality. All states now have a child sex trafficking law, and collectively, the country has made exciting progress to provide imperative protections and access to specialized services for child survivors. However, 10 years has also led to new research and opportunities to listen to survivors, providing waves of information that require us to confront where we are and where we should be going. In lieu of 2020 state grades, on November 18th, we will release the Advanced Legislative Framework and launch State Action, National Change: Report Cards on Child & Youth Sex Trafficking – which will be followed by new state grades in the fall of 2021. The Advanced Legislative Framework will build on the original Framework, preserving the most fundamental components while including new policy priorities that reflect feedback and research from the field.
To support implementation of the Advanced Legislative Framework, our team will remain available to provide rapid technical assistance to support legislators, advocates, and state agencies; technical assistance requests can be submitted here
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One noteworthy change that reflects cultural and legislative transformations is the Framework’s shift in focus; in 2011, 75% of the Framework focused on criminalizing trafficking offenders, including traffickers, buyers, and facilitators, with the remaining 25% focused on victim protections laws. Recognizing that most states have enacted the keystone statutes – the basic laws necessary for criminalizing offenders – the Framework’s focus will shift to focus on the area where the largest gaps remain – victim protections. Under our Advanced Legislative Framework, 75% of the policies will address critical victim protections, including access to specialized services, non-criminal responses to survivors, and avenues to comprehensive care – with the remaining 25% focused on criminal accountability for offenders and victim-centered tools for law enforcement and prosecutors. Additionally, the Advanced Legislative Framework will offer extra credit opportunities for state laws that recognize the intersection of child sex trafficking and labor trafficking as well as the impact on youth and young adults.
We are truly grateful for your collaboration over the years and highly value the incredible work that policy professionals and advocates like you are doing in this field! Building on our success from the past decade of work, we are confident that, together, we can better protect those exploited through trafficking and continue working towards true prevention of this crime. As close supporters of our policy efforts, we want you to be among the first to receive the Advanced Legislative Framework on Child & Youth Sex Trafficking the day it’s released.
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Warmly,
Christine Raino
Senior Director of Public Policy
Shared Hope International
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