Justice Hope Freedom Podcast Adrienne Livingston

Rod Davis with TEARS Ministries which stands for True Evangelism Always Requires Sacrifice, was founded by Rod and Twila Davis and is a faith-based not for profit based in La Vega, Dominican Republic. They see first had how girls and boys in their community in the Dominican Republic are groomed and recruited into sex slavery. What they provide as an organization, helps to prevent it. TEARS provides free elementary and high school education to children who would not otherwise have the educational opportunity, operates a water treatment plant, a Health and Wellness Center, Aquaponics Fish Farming, business training and grants, support services for parents, a soccer mentorship program, plants churches, and operates other support programs for the community.
Connect with TEARS
 Website: https://tears.org/ 
Facebook: https://facebook.com/tearsdr1
Instagram: @tears_ministries
Twitter: @tearsministries
 
Connect with Justice Hope Freedom
https://justicehopefreedom.com/ 
IG: @jhfministry
FB: @justicehopefreedom
 
To sponsor a podcast, email me at a.livingston@worldventure.com or to donate click here. 

Kristen A. Jenson is the founder of Defend Young Minds and is the author of the Good Pictures Bad Pictures series of read-aloud books. She is also the executive producer of the Brain DefenseTM: Digital Safety curriculum—a powerful and engaging video-based course for families and educators. Kristen shares about major ways pornogarphy sets kids up for sex trafficking and provides resources to help parents, guardians, family members and educators to protect their kids.
Connect with Defend Young Minds
Website/Books: www.defendyoungminds.com/books
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DefendYM/
Instagram: @defendyoungminds
Twitter: @defendYM
 
Connect with Justice Hope Freedom
https://justicehopefreedom.com/ 
IG: @jhfministry
FB: @justicehopefreedom
 
To sponsor a podcast, email me at a.livingston@worldventure.com or to donate click here. 

Dignity Coconuts was born in 2010 and is a social enterprise with a mission to stop modern-day slavery for coconut farming communities. Years of nonprofit work fighting trafficking revealed many of the women were trafficked from poor rural farming areas. The coconut industry uses predatory loans and corrupt buying practices to enslave farmers, leaving them vulnerable to trafficking.
Erik Olson, USA President of Dignity Coconuts, highlights what they are doing to help fight modern day slavery.
Connect with Diginity Coconuts!
https://dignitycoconuts.com/ 
You Tube: @Dignitycoconuts
FB: @DignityCoconuts
IG: @dignity.coconuts
 
Connect with Justice Hope Freedom!
https://justicehopefreedom.com/ 
IG: @jhfministry
FB: @justicehopefreedom
 
To sponsor a podcast, email me at a.livingston@worldventure.com or to donate click here. 
 


 

Jay Benke is an abduction and child sex trafficking survivor located in Oregon. As a person whose disabilities and LGBTQ2IA+ identity intersect with her survivorship, she brings a unique perspective as she serves the community. She specializes in advocacy for the disabled, trafficked children and youth, victims of intimate partner violence, people experiencing houselessness, and victims who have been incarcerated. The focus of her work ranges from criminal justice reform to demand reduction to survivor equity and inclusion to harm reduction and trauma-informed care.
When I asked her to come on my show, I asked what she wanted to cover and Jay responded, "to talk about trauma from buyers for both prostituted people and for their partners and children, and how by not holding buyers accountable, we make it harder for the abused partners of buyers to leave."
Listen in on a robust conversation!
To stay in contact with Jay, her social media handles are:
Tiktok: @jaybenke
FB: @jellenbenke
IG: @jellenbenke
 
Justice Hope Freedom social media handles are:
IG: @jhfministry
FB: @justicehopefreedom
 
To sponsor a podcast, email me at a.livingston@worldventure.com or to donate click here. 
Go to https://justicehopefreedom.com/ to learn more about fighting and preventing sex trafficking.

Vanessa Russell, Founder of Love Never Fails in California. Love Never Fails formed in December 2011 after the Founder's teenage dance student experienced human trafficking in the SF Bay Area. They are committed to the well-being of all youth and driven to restore, educate and protect them from sex trafficking.
Their approach addresses a survivor's needs on their journey to safety and wholeness. On a call Vanessa and I were both on with World Without Exploitation, I learned through hearing her share that there is a push to legalize sex work in San Francisco, California and to have red light districts.
Learn more about Love Never Fails at https://www.loveneverfailsus.com/ 
To sponsor a podcast, email me at a.livingston@worldventure.com or to donate click here. 
Go to https://justicehopefreedom.com/ to learn more about fighting and preventing sex trafficking.

This episode we are going to talk about the work I do to prevent sex trafficking and domestic violence.
I, Adrienne Livingston, am a co-developer of the Girl Empowerment Curriculum along with Michele Lathrop. We created this curriculum to serve as a resource for churches, Christian schools and nonprofits to use to educate and address the underlying issues that impact girls today and make them vulnerable to the lures of traffickers and pimps. The curriculum includes discussing our image in God, our identity, personal boundaries, intuition, red flags, using our voice, healthy and unhealthy relationship characteristics, safety planning, basic physical self-defense, and more! We've been invited to share this curriculum resource with secular communities as well.
Prevention is a public health approach that complements a criminal justice approach to preventing and ending human trafficking [1].
Tania Redeau, WorldVenture Girl Empowerment Coordinator joins me on this episode to ask me questions about this program. She is newly joining my team! 
 
Learn more at https://www.justicehopefreedom.com/resources. 
To sponsor a podcast, email me at a.livingston@worldventure.com or to donate click here. 
Go to https://justicehopefreedom.com/ to learn more about fighting and preventing sex trafficking.

[1] National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center https://nhttac.acf.hhs.gov/soar/eguide/guiding-principles/applying-public-health-approach-to-human-trafficking