Resources to Learn More About Human Trafficking

A. RECOMMENDED BOOKS

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• The Just Church - Jim Martin

• The Diary of Jasmine Grace - Jasmine Grace Marino

• Girls Like Us - Rachel Lloyd

• The Slave Next Door - Kevin Bales

• Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecoside and the secret to saving the earth - Kevin Bales

• Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery - Siddharth Kara

• Not For Sale - David Batstone

• A Crime So Monstrous - Ben Skinner

• The Locust Effect - Gary Haugen

• The Good News about Injustice - Gary Haugen

• Half the Sky- Nicholas Kristof

• Justice Awakening: How you and your church can help end human trafficking - Eddie Byun

• The White Umbrella: walking with survivors of sex trafficking - Mary Frances Bowley

• Roadmap to Redemption, 10 week Workbook for survivors - Rebecca Bender

• Collaborating against human trafficking - Kirsten Foot

• The Essential Abolitionist: What you need to know about human trafficking and modern slavery - John Vanek

• Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do - Christine Caine

• Unstoppable: Running the race you were born to win - Christine Caine

• Unashamed: Drop the baggage, pick up your freedom, fulfill your destiny- Christine Caine

B. RECOMMENDED DOCUMENTARIES:

• Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth

• Playground

• Very Young Girls

• Call and Response

• Fields of Mudan

• Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

• A path appears (Episode 1 features Boston, and MLMC)

• Voices of human trafficking 2017 (short video produced by EGC Films)

• I am Jane Doe

C. INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES:

• In My Backyard

• polarisproject.org (USA)

• Enditmovement.org (USA)

• mceht.org (MA state coalition)

• slaveryfootprint.org (labor trafficking)

• betterworldshopper.org (fair trade resources)

D. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS:

• Love 146 Not a Number Prevention Curriculum

• My Life My Choice Prevention Curriculum

• CAASE Chicago toolkits: The Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) provides comprehensive toolkits for teachers, writers, churches, students, doctors, etc who want to spread the word about human trafficking in their spheres.

• Learn2Impact social justice curriculum: Learn2Impact offers a free high school curriculum focused on social justice. The curriculum is planned out according to a semester long class schedule and includes units on human trafficking and fair labor.

• IJM Social Justice Curriculum for High School Students. International Justice Mission has created a complete curriculum for high school students dealing with social justice--particularly modern day slavery. Includes lesson plans, handouts, and homework assignments.

• Human Trafficking 101 for School Administrators and Staff Human Trafficking 101 Factsheets from the Blue Campaign with useful resources for trafficking awareness for schools.

• Human Trafficking Toolkit for High School Students and Educators A collection of downloadable resources about human trafficking to be used in a high school setting.

IV. Resources For Churches:

• International Justice Mission: ijm.org/churches

• Let my People Go Network: www.lmpgnetwork.org

• Greater Boston Prayer and Action Network: gbpan.wordpress.com

• Safe Church training: diomass.org/inside/learning/safe_church

• Safe Families Resources: http://www.safefamilies.org/

• Domestic Violence survivor support: Hagar’s Sisters: hagarssisters.org

• Domestic Violence Response Training: Safe Havens : interfaithpartners.org

• Response to Child Abuse in a Christian Context: www.netgrace.org

• Support for healing from sexual brokenness: Living Waters Ministry, Boston

• Sexual addiction, Men’s accountability groups: nathanproject.net

• Domestic Violence Abuser education, EMERGE: www.emergedv.com

• Confronting the Exploiters - by One Life Matters: onelifematters.org

• Fair Trade Products for Churches: Equal Exchange: shop.equalexchange.coop/organization-orders

• ENGAGE TOGETHER Church Toolkit

• Mentoring Toolkit - Elevate: taking your life to the next level By Rebecca Bender and Kathy Bryan

• Hands that Heal training - faastinternational.org/hands-that-heal

OTHER BOOKS/RESOURCES FOR LEADERS WE RECOMMEND:

• Anatomy of Peace - The Arbringer Institute

• Thanks for the Feedback - Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen

• Let Justice Roll Down - John Perkins

• Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott

• Small Victories - Anne Lamott

• The Irresistible Revolution - Shane Claiborne

• Unlikely - Kevin Palau

• When Helping Hurts - Steve Corbett

• Helping without Hurting - Steve Corbett

• Generous Justice - by Tim Keller

• Trauma and Recovery - Judith Hermon

• The Wounded Heart - Dan Allender

• Real Sex - Lauren Winner