Backpage.com

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:41:00 -0600

The following letter signed by leading anti-trafficking agencies was delivered on Dec. 2 to Village Voice Media. This letter followed a letter by 51 attorneys general and another letter by religious leaders asking Village Voice to stop allowing the buying and selling of children over backpage.com.

Traffick911 helped rescue a girl on Nov. 28 who had been sold over backpage.

Will you add your voice? Ask Village Voice to stop allowing children to be sold over backpage.com.

Read the anti-trafficking agency letter.

Read the letter from 51 attorneys general.

Read the letter from religious leaders of different creeds and backgrounds.

Sign the change.org peition.

Thank you for helping us stop the buying and selling of children.

Safe-home Contest

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:20:00 -0500

At this time, Traffick911 is still looking for the perfect name for the home...so the search goes on and round two of the campaign will soon be launched. Details to follow!

Thank you for joining us in the quest to stop the buying and selling of America’s children!

Traffick911's strategy focuses on three areas:

Prevention – Take American children off the market as commodities.
Rescue – Get these children out of the hands of their perpetrators and out of the jail cells.
Restoration – Provide a safe place where victims receive unconditional love and holistic healing.

We’d like your input for the restoration piece of our strategy. Plans for the Traffick911 safe home, which will be located in the North Texas area, are well under way with our programs, policies and procedures just about finished. Now, we need a name for the safe home.

The Traffick911 safe home will provide holistic healing in a loving and nurturing environment. We are looking for a name which reflects that and would value your input. Submit your idea for the Name the Safe-home Contest and have the opportunity to have your name on an engraved stone or plaque at the entrance to the safe home, identifying you as the one who named the place where these survivors heal!

Note: We currently are looking for the safe-home location and raising funds to get it open.

Contest Details

Dates

8 a.m. (CST), Tuesday, Nov. 8 through midnight (CST) Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Submission

Email your entry to welcomehome@traffick911.com. Place your name in the subject line, and include the proper contact information.

Winner

If a winner is chosen from the entrants, he or she will be informed by email and will be awarded with an engraved stone or plaque at the entrance of the safe home when it opens. We also will announce the winner on facebook and Twitter. Like the Traffick911 Facebook page and follow us on Twitter to stay up on contest developments.

Special criteria

Traffick911 staff leaders and board of directors, along with their families, may not participate. Volunteers may participate.

Because many homes thankfully exist across the country to help people of different circumstances, Traffick911 would like to honor their names. A thorough, yet not all inclusive, list of homes are displayed below and retain their own copyrights. Any entries that copy these names will not be considered.

2nd Life of Chatanooga
Barnaba Institute
Breaking Free
Children of the Night
Courtney's House
Covenant House
Destiny House Shelter
Freedom & Restoration
Freedom House
Freedom to Thrive
GraceHaven
Harbor House
Homestretch
Hope House
Hope Springs
Julian Center
Kristi House/Project GOLD
Lemonade Stand
My Life My Choice
My Sisters' Place
On Eagle's Wings
Opening Doors, Inc.
People's Place
Polaris
PRIDE
Project REACH
Promise House
RELEASE Global
Restoration Ministries
Restore NYC
Safe Horizon
Shae's Place
Traffick Free
Trafficking Hope
Underground Railroad, Inc.
Veronica's Voice
WellHouse, Inc.
Wellspring Living
YANA Place - You Are Never Alone

Judging

Judging will begin on Thursday, December 1, and will conclude by Friday, December 16. The winner, if one chosen, will be announced on Friday, December 16, with the winning entry and name of contestant posted on www.Traffick911.com. The winner will be notified by e-mail also. The judges will be a combination of the Traffick911 staff, the safe-home committee, and the Traffick911 board of directors.

Rules and Regulations

Traffick911 reserves the right not to choose a name if the judges deem no entry reflects the vision of Traffick911.

The contestant will take all responsibility if copyrighted material is released and triggers legal actions. A contestant is anyone who submits a name for the contest.

By accepting the win, the contest winner irrevocably consents to the use of such winner's name, photo and statements relating to the Contest or Traffick911 or its affiliated parties, as well as the winning name entry, without further compensation, in all worldwide marketing, promotion and publicity carried out in perpetuity by Traffick911 or its affiliated parties. The Winner also grants to Traffick911 the right to use and publish his or her proper name and state or country of residence online, in print and any other media now known or hereafter devised in connection with this Contest in perpetuity.

Nodes - Traffick911

Backpage.com

Safe-home Contest

Contest Details

Special criteria

WB 33 News

Examiner

Examiner