DO YOU BELIEVE SOMEONE IS A VICTIM OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
If they are in immediate danger, call 911.
National Human Trafficking Hotline
☏1-888-373-7888 ( TTY: 711)
*Text 233733
Indiana Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline (Minor victim)
☏1-800-800-5556 -Use the term “human trafficking” when reporting.
Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault & Human Trafficking
📍931 East 86th Street, Suite 215
Indianapolis, IN 46260
☏317-624-2370
info@icesaht.org
Based in Carmel, IN
☏317-759-0067
Each year Ascent 121 provides clinical recovery services for over a hundred central Indiana teens. We host awareness and professional development training for thousands of people in the community. Survivors of commercial sexual exploitation present with unique needs for clinical support where continuity is vital. Successful intervention requires both rapid and long-term interventions to help the youth resist eloping or returning to their previous behavior. Much like domestic violence or substance abuse, relapse is an anticipated component of recovery. Ascent 121 programs provide a continuum of care that allows participants to move back and forth between program settings throughout their treatment process. Our continuum utilizes a multi-phase treatment approach that can be provided in multiple settings, allowing us to provide comprehensive treatment in the least restrictive setting as determined by individual risk and need. Ascent 121 staff are equipped with specialized training and supervision by experts across the country. Our continuum consists of four components: assessment, community based therapy, residential programming and aftercare support.
INDIANA TRAFFICKING VICTIMS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (ITVAP)
NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE NUMBER: ☏1-888-373-7888
OR text "HELP" TO 233733
The Indiana Trafficking Victims Assistance Program works to identify and provide comprehensive services to victims (24 and under) of trafficking or sexual exploitation. Within each of the twelve regions, victim services networks will be identified or established to appropriately respond to trafficked victims and/or make appropriate referrals to services, benefits and programs for which they are eligible. ITVAP will partner with existing IPATH task forces, the Indiana State Police, the 30 youth services bureaus and 18 current Safe Place programs across the state to strengthen services already available and work to establish a network of services where none currently exists.
Forms of Human Trafficking
Sex Trafficking harbors, entices, recruits, or transports another individual through force, threat of force, fraud, or coercion with the intent of causing that individual to marry another person, engage in prostitution, or participate in sexual conduct.
Under Federal and Indiana Statute, any individual under the age of 18 who engages in commercial sex (the exchange of a sexual service for something of value) is a victim of sex trafficking. Force, fraud, or coercion need not be proven.
Labor Trafficking harbors, recruits, provides, obtains, or transports an individual through force, threat of force, coercion, or fraud to engage the individual in labor or services.
Forced Marriage harbors, entices, recruits, or transports another individual through force, threat of force, fraud, or coercion with the intent of causing that individual to marry another person.