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www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/11/making-treatment-maternal-addiction-national-priority
MAKING TREATMENT FOR MATERNAL ADDICTION A NATIONAL PRIORITY
by Imani Walker, Executive Director
I have been in long-term recovery from substance abuse for 13 years. In the United States, investment in Family-Based Treatment programs saves countless lives and families, because healing addicted mothers exponentially affects the child welfare system, juvenile justice and adult criminal justice systems. Family-based substance abuse treatment describes programs for pregnant or parenting mothers and their children that provide direct services or referrals for services including: substance abuse treatment, child early intervention, mental health, family counseling, trauma therapy, housing, medical care, nursery and preschool, parenting skills training, and educational or job training. Read more…
FAIR Girls, GEMS, Polaris Project, Rebecca Project for Human Rights & 52 of our partners, 51 Attorneys General and 36 prominent clergy have called on Village Voice Media to shut down the adult section of it's website, Backpage.com
Executive Director, Imani Walker
Receiving BET Award
3 AM Girls: Lisa Ling Goes Undercover
Tina, a former teenage sex worker who escaped the world of pimps and their girls, and Lisa go undercover in Washington DC to witness the "rules of the streets" and see if they could identify any young, missing girls.
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US LAW ENFORCEMENT 'FAILING' ON CHILD PROSTITUTION
by Sima Kotecha, Newsbeat US Reporters
American law enforcement agencies are being accused of not doing enough to combat the problem of child prostitution.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the United States estimates that between 100,000 and 300,000 American children are forced into prostitution every year - sometimes through being kidnapped near their homes.
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REBECCA PROJECT ON ABC NEWS
Craigslist: Site for Sex Slaves?
Two Victims Take Out Advertisement to Plead for Craig's Help
by David Wright, Lisa Jones and Xorje Olivares
August 10, 2010
In the adult section of the popular website Craigslist, it looks as though the world's oldest profession has met up with modern technology, with a number of women offering companionship for a certain price.
But are all the femme fatales featured online consenting adults, or sex slaves?
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News & Research
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Contact Your Congressman |
Write and urge your Congressman/Congresswoman to End Federal Funding for Depo Provera: World’s Most Dangerous Contraceptive.
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Rebecca Project in Essence Magazine |
Imani Walker, Cofounder and Executive Director, featured in Essence Magazine, Work & Wealth: The Power List.
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Rebecca Project Updates |
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REBECCA PROJECT IN
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Taking a Stand Against Sex Trafficking
by Jessica Stockton Clancy
January 25, 2011
The founders of the Rebecca Project help vulnerable women and girls speak truth to power.
Sitting in her Washington, D.C., office last spring with two victims of sex trafficking, Malika Saada Saar could barely believe what she was hearing. "They described how they had been sold on Craigslist," says Saada Saar, founder of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights.
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