By Joelle Piercy, LSW, MSS, MLSP Safe+Sound Somerset Director of Outreach and Community Engagement Every February, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM) calls us to look at how young people experience relationships and how we can help keep them safe. At Safe+Sound Somerset, prevention is daily practice rooted in listening...
Understanding Human Trafficking and How We Can Prevent It
by Victor M. Peralta, Jr An Urgent, Shared Responsibility With more than 20 years of experience working alongside New York City law enforcement agencies, I’ve conducted human trafficking outreach that led to meaningful, lasting impact - helping victims and survivors...
AI, Exploitation, and Consent: Why We Must Act Now
Grok AI, the artificial intelligence system integrated into X (formerly Twitter), has recently been exposed for generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and nonconsensual sexualized images of adults at user prompts. Grok AI admitted to “lapses in safeguards” after creating a sexualized image of two girls. While X says it will remove illegal content and suspend accounts that post it, it...
Advocacy Toolkit – Survivors Justice Act
Advocacy Toolkit updated 12-10 Graphics you can post.