TraffickSTOP

Teaching High School Students Essential Online Safety Practices to Increase Human Trafficking Awareness

TraffickSTOP (Signs to Observe and Prevent) is a comprehensive human trafficking identification and prevention training curriculum designed for high school students. This program empowers school resource officers (SROs) and other police personnel to facilitate engaging and interactive sessions in high schools. Through active discussions and skill-building activities, students learn about the critical issue of human trafficking, including essential online safety practices, to increase awareness and prevent victimization.

Upon completion, students are encouraged to share their newfound knowledge with their peers and community, fostering a broader awareness and proactive stance against human trafficking.

The TraffickSTOP toolkit includes:

  • 12 detailed meeting plans
  • Posters and resources for effective program implementation
  • A self-paced online training module that provides facilitators with coaching on delivering the curriculum effectively

This impactful project is a collaborative effort between the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), with support from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).

This project was supported by cooperative agreement 2020-VT-BX-K001, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this webpage are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.