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It is the world's oldest oppression," says Vednita Carter, the founder and executive director of Breaking Free , a Minnesota-based nonprofit that provides services to victims and survivors of prostitution. Read the post-show takeaway. The effort to help women and girls escape prostitution and human trafficking will be the focus of the group's second Demand Change conference, scheduled for May in St. The gathering is designed for advocates, politicians and law enforcement with the goals of raising awareness, building partnerships and educating people about the issue. A bill awaiting final passage in the Legislature would treat and year-olds who have been prostituted as victims rather than criminals.

MN Girls Are Not For Sale launched in to galvanize resources to end the sex trafficking of youth in Minnesota through grantmaking, research, public education, and policy change. Using a collective impact model and working alongside cross-sectors partners, we changed laws and the narrative, published groundbreaking research on sex trafficking, inspired and advocated for federal legislation, developed model protocols for law enforcement, increased sex trafficking charges and convictions, and trained thousands in how to spot the signs of sex trafficking as co-chairs of the Anti-Sex Trafficking Committee for Super Bowl LII. We quickly learned that sex trafficking is both complex and systemic, its causes deeply rooted in gender and economic inequity, while its effects and opportunities for prevention exist within a complex, cross-sector field of public agencies, businesses, nonprofit service providers, and the public. Using a collective impact framework — which assumes that no one sector can single-handedly move the dial alone on complex, systemic social and economic issues — we exercised our positional leadership as a statewide community foundation with statewide reach to identify key stakeholders and convene the field. In , we convened over leaders from all over Minnesota — donors, elected officials, state agencies, philanthropies, advocates, corporations, law enforcement, judges, faith communities, and many others — and created a strategic, multi-sector plan to combat child sex trafficking. The success of the MN Girls campaign and critical impact it has had on the work to end sex trafficking is undeniable. Passage of Safe Harbor changed state laws to ensure that children under 18 years of age who are sold for sex are no longer criminalized, but treated as victims of a crime in need of safe housing and specialized services.

Imagine a child you know is bought and sold. For sex. This is sex trafficking.

Jump to navigation Skip navigation. A year-old Minnesota girl is fighting criminal charges that have the potential to destroy her future, including her ability to obtain housing, to enroll in college programs, and even to pursue some career paths. Her case does not involve harm to others. It does not involve damage to property. And it does not have anything to do with illegal substances.