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Sex Trafficking & Special Education

Sex Trafficking & Special Education

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Spreading awareness and preventing sex trafficking of special education students

Illustration of five students: an older teen boy with dark hair and tan skin wearing a red hooded sweatshirt; a young girl with long blond hair wearing a lilac t-shirt and a pink backpack; a shorter teen age boy wearing a plaid shirt, holding a textbook; a teenaged asian girl with short black hair, wearing a yellow dress; a tall black girl with braids in a bun, wearing a green and navy striped sweater with a backpack slung over one shoulder

22%

Victims of sex trafficking received special education services in school

What We’re Doing to Help

Youth in special education services are at incredible risk for being targeted by sex traffickers. The Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR) at Arizona State University, created this website to support special educators and those working with special education youth to be able to identify high risk behaviors and situations and to provide prevention activities and information to the youth in their classrooms and the community that supports them.

Learn More About STIR

Information Tailored to You

Students with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to victimization. To help caregivers tackle this weighty subject, we have crafted position-specific information to provide better support you.

1st-5th Grade Teachers

6th-8th Grade Teachers

9th-12th Grade Teachers

School Administrators

School Social Workers & Psychologists

Transportation Staff

Parents

Story of the Starfish

The Starfish Story, an adaption from “The Star Thrower” by Loren Eiseley

A little girl was walking along a beach with thousands of washed up starfish. Each starfish she came across, she picked it up, and threw it back into the ocean. An older man called out to her and asked, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”

The girl heard what the old man was asking, but she continued to bend down, pick up another starfish, and threw it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied, “Well, I made a difference for that one!”

Illustration of a small, reddish starfish

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