Let's Talk National Runaway Safeline

Angela Lee, Director at love is respect, returns to Let's Talk to discuss Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. In this episode, we learn about this year's theme for Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month ("Be About It"), online harassment, enthusiastic consent, and unlearning harmful relationships stereotypes perpetuated by Hollywood.


To watch love is respect's "Growing Up in the Digital World" webinar, click here!
Make sure to follow love is respect on Instagram to be a part of their Febraury 28th live steam, "Be About Empowerment."
Learn from love is respect's 2022 Online Harassment and Abuse Survey here.

love is respect offers confidential support for teens, young adults, and their loved ones seeking help, resources, or information related to healthy relationships and dating abuse in the US. They’re available by text (“LOVEIS” to 22522), call (866.331.9474), or live chat online.

#BlueCampaign joins us for the third and final installment of our Human Trafficking series. Karinda L. Washington, Executive Director of Social Impact and Campaigns, talks us through this year's Human Trafficking Prevention Month events, and shares life-saving resources for business, organizations and individuals looking to make a difference in their communities.

Blue Campaign is a national public awareness campaign designed to educate the public, law enforcement, and other industry partners to recognize the indicators of human trafficking, and how to appropriately respond to possible cases.

Learn more about If You See Something, Say Something here. Watch the Youth Human Trafficking Scenario animated series here.

For Part 2 of our human trafficking series, we are joined by Tina Bigdeli, Program Manager with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). In our conversation with discuss sex trafficking recruitment on social media, child sexual abuse material, and what happens when you make a report to a resource like the Cyber Tipline.

NCMEC is the nation's largest and most influential child protection organization.  Learn more at their website MissingKids.org. Learn more about Take It Down here. Learn more about the CyberTipline here.

In the season 4 premiere episode we are joined by Ashley Smith Thompson, a Case Response Specialist with Polaris. We discuss the realities of trafficking and the myths preventing progress.

Polaris works to reshape the systems that allow for sex and labor trafficking in North America and operates the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline. Learn more on at PolarisProject.org and NationalHumanTraffickingHotline.org.

In this season's final episode we are joined by the Executive Director of the National Network 4 Youth (NN4Y), Darla Bardine. NN4Y is strongly devoted to empowering young people with lived experiencing by providing education about local and national politics, and creating opportunities for young people to network with congressional leaders and policy experts. They are also leading the charge in the reauthorization of the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Acti

To learn more about the National Network 4 Youth, visit their website https://nn4youth.org/

To learn about the 2023 National Summit and Hill Day, visit https://nn4youth.org/national-summit-hill-day/

To learn more about RHYTPA, visit https://nn4youth.org/take-action-center/rhytpa-take-action/ 

For this very special episode of Let's Talk we are happy to welcome guest host Em deCordova, Prevention and Youth Engagement Coordinator at National Runaway Safeline (NRS). Em is joined by Rachel Litchman and Tony Davis-Robinson, NRS Youth Advisory Board Members,  who share their lived experiences, and discuss ways that youth-facing organizations can collaborate with them to make change.

You can learn more about the Youth Advisory Board by visiting 1800RUNAWAY.org/YAB