Human Trafficking Outcomes
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Prince William Count Public Schools 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 was supported through a grant from the Potomac Health Foundation and the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services. In 2020, this program became funded through PWCS.
| 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 |
| Percentage 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) |
*Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the curriculum was not provided to students during the 2020-21 academic year.
Key Highlights:
- Presented for the U.S. Department of Education, “The Identification and Support of Students Affected by Human Trafficking (2020).
- Presented to PWC Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judges (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).
- Invited to present to the Virginia State Delegate Crime Commission (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.
- In partnership with PWCPD and DHS, participated in recovering and coordinating victim services for multiple endangered runaway students from PWCS, and students involved in several international labor trafficking rings.
- 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.