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REQUIRED ARTICLES
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​"Pornography, Prostitution, & Trafficking: Making the Connections"
​Author: Melissa Farley
Date: August 2015
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"18 Myths on Prostitution"
Author: European Women's Lobby
Date: 2014
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
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When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
This book is the framework from which Created Gainesville attempts to serve our community. We seek to walk alongside women in humility, breaking the vicious cycles of poverty, and bringing healing and reconciliation.
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Shepherding Women in Pain by Bev Hislop
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This book is a great resource for how to walk alongside women going through varying traumas, including: homelessness, incarceration, sexual abuse, and more.
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Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It
Toxic Charity , by Robert D. Lupton, reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help - not sabotage- those whom the desire to serve. Toxic Charity shows us how to start serving needy and impoverished members of our communities in a way that will lead to lasting, real-world change. 
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
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Recognize the Signs of Trafficking, Polaris Project
Recognizing potential red flags and knowing the indicators of human trafficking is a key step in identifying more victims and helping them find the assistance they need.
https://polarisproject.org/recognize-signs
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Sex Trafficking Statistics
Understand the prevalence, the trauma, and the factors that are involved in sex trafficking in the United States and around the world.
http://iamatreasure.com/about/stats/#_ednref17
RECOMMENDED DOCUMENTARIES
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Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
Nefarious gives an in-depth look at the human trafficking industry, showing where slaves are sold (often in developed, affluent countries), where they work, and where they are confined. With footage shot in over nineteen different countries, Nefarious exposes the nightmare of sex slavery as experienced by hundreds of thousands daily, through the eyes of both the enslaved and their traffickers.
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In Plain Sight: Stories of Hope and Freedom
Produced and narrated by Natalie Grant. ​In Plain Sight
 seeks to raise awareness of the thousands of women and children who are forced, coerced, or deceived into the commercial sex trade each year in the United States. 
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I am Jane Doe
I am Jane Doe chronicles the epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their middle-school daughters, victims of sex-trafficking on Backpage.com.  The documentary reveals how, after rescuing their daughters, these mothers filed lawsuits against Backpage.com. Although many of the lawsuits have not gone well, their efforts have sparked a political movement that now includes a Senate investigation. Now streaming on Netflix.
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