Sex Trafficking Outreach Prevention Program

STOPP exploitation before it happens.

STOPP is a FREE interactive training about the realities of sex trafficking in Hawaiʻi with curricula for students, school personnel, parents, and community agencies.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and DOE school closures, PSC now offers school personnel and community agency trainings in a webinar format. We will resume student and parent trainings once schools have reopened.

Appropriate for both youth audiences and professionals, STOPP workshops incorporate evidence-based research and best practices.

Pacific Survivor Center (PSC) is a Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit dedicated to healing victims of sex and labor trafficking, immigrant domestic violence, torture, and other human rights abuses. We coordinate medical and professional services for victims, and provide trainings and resources to healthcare, legal, and other human services professionals.

Our decade of experience in treating survivors of sex trafficking has led us to develop the Sex Trafficking Outreach and Prevention Program (STOPP) to educate youth, teachers, administrators, advocates, and community partners about juvenile sex trafficking or Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in Hawaiʻi. PSC is offering STOPP as a free training opportunity for schools throughout Hawai’i to educate and empower our youth and their allies.

Hawaiʻi’s laws changed as of May 29, 2017. Employees or officers of public or private schools, along with law enforcement, medical professionals, childcare providers, and others are now required to report suspected cases of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), in addition to mandated reporting of child abuse or neglect.

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What is STOPP?

One-hour interactive curriculum
Trainings fit to your available class time
Age-appropriate content
Original 10-minute animated film
Discussions led by trained crisis counselors

How Will STOPP Help My Students?

STOPP is an evidence-based curriculum that will help students and their allies better understand and identify local trafficking behaviors and patterns with the goal of stopping exploitation before it happens. STOPP is accessible and relevant for younger audiences, incorporating the expertise of PSC partners and leading experts in Hawai’i using research and best practices. STOPP deglamorizes the “life” of prostitution and encourages your students to think about the personal and legal consequences they could face.

How Do I Know STOPP is Appropriate for My Students?

Great care was taken in developing STOPP to ensure that a training does not trigger trauma in participating students, educators, and facilitators. Trainings are conducted by a team, with one member leading and one member monitoring audiences for secondary or vicarious trauma. A specialized Educator’s Curriculum provides tools to identify, communicate with, and reintegrate students who may be victims of CSEC.

Know the who, what, where, when, whys of sex trafficking
Experience empathy for sex-trafficked victims
Recognize vulnerabilities to being manipulated, abused, or trafficked
Apply knowledge and gain communication skills to help themselves and others from being trafficked

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Why is STOPP Needed?

While Hawaiʻi-specific data on sex trafficking is limited, we do know:

Within 6 months of the change in the federal mandated reporting law, reports of child sex trafficking and confirmed CSEC cases in Hawaiʻi had already exceeded prior reports from the previous 4 years combined.

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To arrange a STOPP training for students or for school personnel or to learn more about how your school / organization can get involved with STOPP, please complete the form below.

This product was produced by Pacific Survivor Center and supported by grant number 2016-VA-GX-0063, awarded to SWCC by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice through the State of Hawai’i Department of the Attorney General. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the State of Hawai’i Department of the Attorney General or the U.S. Department of Justice.