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Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

IT Has to Stop

Slavery still exists. And at this very moment, in Tennessee’s big cities and small towns, it’s happening.

Our women and men — and sometimes, our state’s children — are being sold for sex.

We’re not okay with it. We’re in it to end it in Tennessee, but we need your help.

Tennessee Human Trafficking Hotline

Suspect someone may be a victim of human trafficking?

Call the Tennessee Human Trafficking Hotline at 

1-855-55-TNHTH or 1-855-558-6484

Text ‘BeFree’ to 233733

Tennessee Anti Slavery Alliance and Single Point Of Contact (SPOC)

Launched in 2017, the Alliance works to combine the forces of four established, regional nonprofit agencies in identifying, protecting, and supporting Tennessee Human Trafficking victims in the most effective and efficient ways possible.

In 2013, Governor Haslam mandated the creation of the Tennessee Human Trafficking Services Coordination and Service Delivery Plan, a statewide plan for delivering services to survivors of human trafficking. In coordination with this plan, Governor Haslam appointed the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) the lead agency for all human trafficking crimes in the state of Tennessee. The TBI then established a regional, single- point-of-contact system to ensure that quality services would be provided to human trafficking survivors in the most effective and efficient way possible. This means that a non-governmental organization (NGO) has been designated as the official single point of contact (SPOC) in each of the four Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) divisions. This model helps coordinate comprehensive services across the state for human trafficking survivors.

What does it mean to be a SPOC?

Each of the four SPOC organizations receive all human trafficking referrals in their designated region of Tennessee and coordinate services to meet the needs of each individual HT survivor. These organizations work collaboratively with one another and with other nonprofits, direct service providers, and law enforcement agencies to accomplish this coordination of comprehensive services.

Each victim has a unique journey. And for some, it’s easier than others. That’s why helping victims become survivors takes care, compassion, and creativity. Click the links below for Tennesse non profits that work with victims of human trafficking.

Tennessee ranks 1st in efforts to combat child sex trafficking!

A 2017 report entitled Rating State Efforts to Combat Child Sex Trafficking – A Review of the 2017 Protected Innocence Challenge done by Shared Hope International, ranked Tennessee as the highest rated state, receiving a score 96.5.

Shared Hope International’s Protected Innocence Challenge recently released its 2017 Report and Report Cards, grading each state and the District of Columbia on their efforts to combat child sex trafficking. To determine a state’s grade, the Challenge analyzes a state’s legislation against 41 key components in the following six categories:

(1) criminalization of domestic minor sex trafficking

(2) criminal provisions addressing demand

(3) criminal provisions for traffickers

(4) criminal provisions for facilitators

(5) protective provisions for child victims

(6) criminal justice tools for investigation and prosecution.

In the review each state receives a full analysis and policy recommendations to help improve its framework to prevent and eliminate domestic minor sex trafficking. The Protected Innocence Challenge has produced this analysis yearly since 2011 with substantial results.