Engage Together® Community Toolkit
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
In this Toolkit, you will find resources for further learning and distribution, ideas for how others are successfully combating human trafficking, and Community Assessment tools that will guide your group to develop a strategic action plan unique to your strengths and your community’s needs. Let’s begin!
IDEAS FOR
ENGAGEMENT
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
GETTING STARTED
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Foreword
Use this Toolkit to support the
formation of a new coalition
or to enhance the efforts of
an already existing coalition.
The information, strategies, ideas, and resources shared throughout this Toolkit are drawn from innovative and effective efforts taking place all across our nation today.
A strong coalition is essential to end human trafficking in your community. We all have a part to play, and we must all engage together around a comprehensive strategy in order to succeed.
Engage Together® is an initiative of the Alliance for Freedom, Restoration, and Justice®. For more information about the AFRJ, see p26.
Thank you for your passion and commitment to mobilize your community to end human trafficking and to protect the vulnerable.
You may be a concerned citizen desiring to bring collaboration to your com-munity by starting a coalition. Or, you may be an already established coalition seeking to enhance your existing efforts. In either case, this Toolkit is designed to be a powerful resource for you.
Before you begin, it is important to comprehend two truths from the outset:
Human trafficking did not appear overnight. It is a result—the gravest of consequences—of leaving many things undone and many issues unresolved for the vulnerable in our world and in our own communities. Which means that, we must tackle this evil head on AND simultaneously go upstream to prevent it from ever happening in the first place.
We are not powerless to stop this – in the life of a single individual,