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The Girls Prevention Program specifically targets middle and high school girls who demonstrate at risk behavior. The idea is to educate them on the seriousness of sexual exploitation that can lead to victimization. The 10-session curriculum is aimed at keeping the most vulnerable adolescent girls from sexual exploitation and prostitution. UAHT has also found it important to add the component of labor trafficking to the curriculum and discuss issue and vulnerability that may lead youth to labor exploitation as well. The curriculum embraces a focus on empowerment and blends a variety of activities, which foster self-reflection, understanding about the issue, and knowledge to help young women identify potentially exploitive situations. HRRC also provides an abridged version of the prevention program for those organizations that cannot accommodate all 10 sessions
Sixty-five girls participated in two program sessions in the first half of 2014 and three more were planned for later in the year. The program costs approximately $25 per person. The programs have been administered to CPS (Child Protection Services) and to Juvenile Detention Center. The project focuses specifically on at-risk (runaway and “throwaway”) youth residing in juvenile probation programs or detention centers.

Girls Prevention Program
 has adopted the My Life My Choice: Preventing Commercial Sexual Exploitation Among Adolescent Girls, a national curriculum for sexual exploitation preventive education. The program targets middle and high school girls who demonstrate at risk behavior and educates them on the seriousness of sexual exploitation that can lead to victimization.

This 10-session curriculum created by the Justice Resource Institute to halt exploitation and trafficking in the United States works to:
Build awareness of recruitment tactics by pimps/predators
Provide information on sexual health
Understand the link between substance use and exploitation—how it can pull you in and how it can keep you there
Raising awareness of resources and a pathway out of the Life
Improve self-esteem.
UAHTHRRC adds labor trafficking to bring awareness to labor exploitation.

United Against Human Trafficking UAHT believes that an aware and educated public is the first step to eliminating human trafficking. They encourage the public to share what you have learned with family and friends. Become a mentor in your community to work with pre-teens to help educate, empower and support girls as they transition from child to adult.

FAUSA has continued to support organizations dedicated to the issues of human trafficking, awarding the 2014 Development Grant to “SafeHouse San Francisco,” an organization that has been assisting homeless trafficked women for over 15 years. The funds will be used to sponsor an Internship Program. The Internship Program offers both job readiness and job training, as the partners provide a part-time work experience, with training and supervision, while SafeHouse pays each intern a stipend from the grant funds. Safehouse provides a safe and nurturing environment after escaping brutality and violence of life on the streets. For more information: http://www.sfsafehouse.org

In addition to the Girls Prevention Program and SFSafehouse, FAUSA has been a generous supporter of “Free the Girls” collecting bras, delivering to distribution points, and donations of money to the FAWCO Target Program on Human Rights for Women. The founders of Free the Girls were the keynote speakers at the recent FAUSA annual Getaway in Colorado Springs.