I really don’t support the idea of trying to scare youth away from the sex trade. It’s ineffective because it doesn’t get at the root of the reasons youth are in the sex trade to begin with and assumes that youth don’t already know or have personal knowledge of dangerous realities in their lives.
It can [...]
Last Friday I had the opportunity to witness an amazing speakout by street youth organized by the Young Women’s Empowerment Project in Chicago. This youth organized speakout on Reproductive Justice featured skits, poetry, statements, personal testimony and information sharing. YWEP youth have been involved for years in building the Reproductive Justice movement - speaking out [...]
I have a letter in the Sunday letters to the editor section.
Resources, enforcement needed for sex assaults
I work with teens involved in prostitution in Milwaukee, and I’m relieved to see more attention being given to this reality (”Craigs-list child sex ads lead to arrests,” April 9). Indeed, some youth become involved by running away and [...]
Check out a preliminary report from Toledo, Ohio on youth involved in prostitution. The unfunded research is a passion of Celia Williamson of Second Chance. Some of the findings so far include 91% of the youth reporting abuse at home, 77% had been been involved with the area child protective services with over half being [...]
Here in Milwaukee, the local paper reports on recent cases of teens involved in having sex for money off Craigslist.
Last week I blogged about Dallas County needing some encouragement to take action on a strip club that had a then 12-year-old girl dancing at the club. Turns out the law didn’t specify a penalty for [...]
A national report released yesterday documents the seriously troubling results of the graduation rates across the country. Milwaukee Public Schools are at 46% with Detroit coming in last at 24.9% of high school students graduating on time. Read the report here.
Also in Detroit multiple adults were charged with felonies related to running a brothel involving [...]
I’m doing a workshop open to all Milwaukee youth workers on May 3rd.
Youth and the Sex Trade 101 will build your awareness of: why and how youth get involved in trading sex for money, what teens experience while involved in the sex trade, recent research and best practices on working with boys, girls and trans [...]
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