Human Trafficking Outcomes
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PWCS is a national leader in a school based, comprehensive trafficking prevention program. This initiative is currently supported by a grant from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services. It first began through a grant from the Potomac Health Foundation and was derived from a VA state mandate for school boards to have information regarding the topic.
| Lesson Outcomes |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 |
2019-20 |
Totals |
|
Students coming forward after the lesson.
|
100 |
79 |
123 |
212 |
153 |
117 |
150 |
934 |
|
Percent of students coming forward who were sexually assaulted, groomed, or victims of trafficking.
|
41%
(41)
|
37%
(29)
|
43%
(53)
|
37%
(78)
|
14%
(22)
|
13%
(15)
|
10%
(15)
|
27 %
(253)
|
|
Percent of students who came forward to ask additional questions or discuss the lesson further.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15%
(22)
|
15%
(22)
|
Overall, students consistently demonstrated large gains (from 56 percent to 72 percent) in perceived knowledge about human trafficking based on pre/post testing.
Key Highlights:
- Presented for the U.S. Department of Education, “The Identification and Support of Students Affected by Human Trafficking (2020).
- Awarded the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) Outstanding Criminal Justice Program
Award (2019).
- Presented to the Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Prevention (2019).
- Presented to the Virginia State Delegates about human trafficking within schools (2018).
- Presented for the INOVA Symposium, “Child Trafficking: The Hidden Crime” (2018).
- Participated in the development of statewide training guidelines for human trafficking with the Virginia Department of Education (2017).
- Recipient of the Champions for Children Award from PWCS (2017).
- Presented at the Virginia Association of School Nurses Conference (2016 and 2017).
- Presented at Virginia Commonwealth University (2016).
- Presented at “Sex Trafficking of Minors in America's Schools: Why Prevention Education Is Necessary” Summit (2016).
- Recipient of the Best Practice: Innovation award from Potomac Health Foundation (2015).
- Presented at the National Educators Against Trafficking Conference (2014).
- Partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
- Recipient of the Allies in Prevention Award for Stop Child Abuse Now of Northern VA (SCAN).
- The first school jurisdiction in the United States to provide a comprehensive school-based program.
- Invited to Capitol Hill twice.
This project was supported by the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) grant #19-C3440JJ15, with funds made available to the Commonwealth of Virginia from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice.