Support Canyon County Anti Trafficking Task Force
Goal:
USD $10,000
Raised:
USD $725
Campaign funds will be received by Canyon County Anti-Trafficking Task Force
Support Canyon County Anti Trafficking Task Force
Pictured above are members of the Task Force leadership team with the mayor of Caldwell, ID and the proclamation signed at the first City Council meeting of 2024. Please see Update #3 - Proclamation Signed for more details on this important event.
Projects to Protect Children from Sexual Predators
The Canyon County Anti-Trafficking Task Force, Inc (CCATTF) was born out of one woman’s eye-opening experience saving a very young woman from the grips of a captor one summer day in 2020 while walking in a city park. Learning that this young woman had been transported across the country from one state to another, drugged, abused and ultimately registered as a missing person was a cry for help that could not be ignored. The story of this experience shared with others has become a grassroots rallying cry to develop educational programs that would educate and equip citizens to protect themselves and others, particularly our most vulnerable population, our children, from sexual predators.
There are over 750,000 sexual predators online at any given moment of every day luring and coercing children from all socio-economic levels into unwittingly producing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) through chat rooms, online gaming and social media apps. Approximately 20 new children appear on porn sites monthly with child internet pornography sales reaching $4.9 BILLION dollars annually. Only through education will our youth learn the warning signs of online strangers, how to avoid interaction with them and know when to ask a trusted adult for help. Our Mission Statement precisely defines what our Task Force is all about:
- With Education our approach,
- Protection and Prevention our goal,
- We stand united as a community to combat sex trafficking.
In order to accomplish the "education, protection, and prevention of sex trafficking" of children in our community, we are committed to:
● Developing a professionally produced 15-20-minute video designed to provide children with some necessary life-saving education to stay safe online. Content will be sensitively designed to deliver appropriate, up-beat messages to students aged 8-13. The video will be presented by the School Resource Officers on campus, upon approval by school administration, staff, and parents. Our Task Force is working cooperatively with local law enforcement officers to provide this type of training video for them to use ASAP. They earnestly support the need for this tool, but their budgets do not allow for such an expenditure. Currently, no other resource provides this specific training video.
● Presenting our already developed informational parent workshop in area churches to alert, educate, and equip parents with necessary tools to help keep their kids safe. As a follow-up to this presentation, we will introduce on-going, detailed information/training through nationally recognized websites. This presentation will then be reformatted to address audiences within the general public. For this program we need portable tech equipment to deliver the PowerPoint.
● Continue holding public events to spread our message out to our community at large. The most prevailing comment we hear is, “Oh, that doesn’t happen here in Idaho.” BUT SEX TRAFFICKING IS ALIVE AND WELL IN IDAHO!
● Enlist the cooperation of local businesses to install public Wi-Fi safety filtering programs that block the exchange of pornographic material initiated by online sexual predators who aim to victimize minors accessing the internet while in public establishments.
The CCATTF is committed to making Idaho communities a role model for these programs that we believe will help change the trajectory of this horrific criminal activity now considered by professionals as a pandemic happening not only in our state but throughout our country.
The Canyon County Anti-Trafficking Task Force is now incorporated! Recently we became our own legal entity as a non-profit, educational organization. We have also received notice from the IRS that we are now a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization.
All donations will be distributed directly to The Canyon County Anti-Trafficking Task Force from this GiveSendGo campaign and is now tax deductible for the donor. Thank you for considering us and thank you for donating to this very important Community cause.
Recent Donations
This is a special grant from the Giver Army "Rescue & Rehabilitation" Cause, where we focus on those rescued out of human trafficking or require rehabilitation. We pray that as your organization and efforts grow, God will continue to supply your needs to guide you as you make incredible steps to save so many. Philippians 4:19
Updates
Update #3 - Proclamation Signed
June 24th, 2024
The Task Force has now worked to have a second Idaho city sign such a proclamation in recognition of January as National Human Trafficking Awareness & Prevention Month. The Caldwell proclamation reads in part:
"WHEREAS, the inherent dignity, freedom, and autonomy of every person deserves to be respected and protected; and
WHEREAS, human trafficking is often a hidden crime that knows no boundaries, with more than 27.6 million people - adults and children - are trapped in forms of modern slavery around the world, including the United States, and
WHEREAS, over 70% of those being trafficked are women and girls who experience high rates of physical and sexual violence and internet enticements or our children are a significant point of grooming, and
WHEREAS, the majority of its victims are already part of an at-risk population, including all youth by the nature of their dependence upon adults, and
WHEREAS, we acknowledge that we must work together as a community to increase awareness of and prevention from human trafficking and internet crimes against children, and continue to promote the social and emotional well-being of men, women and children in safe, stable, nurturing environments, and
WHEREAS, living with our eyes wide open to the reality of human trafficking and the internet crimes being committed against our children in the Caldwell community, knowledge and education remain our best defense, ... "
We will work to bring more municipalities on board to sign such proclamations next year. Awareness-Education-Training-Prevention; we move forward to achieve our goal to protect our citizens from this horrible crime. Checkout our Facebook page advertising our next event on January 18, 2024 at: Canyon County Anti-Trafficking Task Force. This is a must attend event for parents and their children to learn child safety guidelines for protection from the advancements of online child sexual predators. Thanks to the generosity of donors we are able to bring these events to the public!
Update #2 - 501(c)3 Status
December 31st, 2023
IT'S OFFICIAL!!
We have received word from the IRS that we are now a bona fide 501(c)3 tax-exempt entity! Many thanks to all who helped make this possible. Please keep donating so we can continue our efforts in this very important cause!
Canyon County Anti-Trafficking Task Force - Leadership Team
OUR PROGRESS CONTINUES . . .
October 12th, 2023
It has been a productive year for the Task Force! We began our educational efforts with a public forum in January, followed by two presentations from Rupert Idaho undercover police detectives along with their partner K-9 Newton, as a team specializing in identifying, tracking, apprehending, and convicting online child sexual predators. In June we rolled out our own presentation, “Not Our Children” to a local church audience and then to a local civic organization. We have already scheduled more presentation dates as we continue to advertise this opportunity to other audiences.
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