Letter of Support for Senate “Strengthening Child Welfare Response to Trafficking of 2013”
• • ATEST • United States
Recent reports have shown that the majority of identified child trafficking victims have had contact, often multiple times, with the child welfare system. S.1823 is a critical piece of legislation needed to ensure that child victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking in the United States are identified by state child welfare agencies and receive the services they need.
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