Learn the Basics
Explore foundational information, facts sheets, and key signs to help you recognize human trafficking.
Learn about Human Trafficking
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Basic information and statistics.
Human Trafficking Fact Sheet
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Indicators to help better identify potential exploitation and trafficking situations
What Schools Should Know
Human trafficking of minors and red flags for school-based professionals.
Browse Reports
The Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force's Human Trafficking Victim Report attempts to project the best estimated collective data for Orange County, using figures of those identified and assisted by members of the OCHTTF. The report focuses mostly around data and findings regarding victims and survivors of human trafficking. However, information shared in the report also includes aspects of the OCHTTF that includes law enforcement, prosecution and community collaboration.
Voices & Tools
Real voices and real tools to help you learn, reflect, and respond.
Ending Human Trafficking Podcast
Study the issues. Be a voice. Make a difference.
The Global Center for Women and Justice launched the Ending Human Trafficking podcast in 2011. Over 270 episodes produced with listeners from 148 countries. This is the longest running podcast on human trafficking housed in the U.S. Congressional Library.
External Research & Reports
Insights from the field to help you understand trafficking and be part of the solution.
CSEC Report 2021​​​​
Orange County Social Services Agency's first commercially sexually exploited child (CSEC) program annual report.
Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking 2021/2022
This study was the first federally funded, multisite, mixed method evaluation to specifically asses the impact of enhanced collaborative model (ECM) human trafficking task forces on the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking crimes and on identifying and assisting of survivors. For the evaluation, 10 diverse ECM task forces were selected across the U.S. with 143 task force stakeholders interviewed. OCHTTF was one of the 10 selected for the evaluation study.
Findings from an Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking
Collaboration and Challenges in Antitrafficking Task Forces
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Recommendations for Practitioners Engaged in Antitrafficking Task Forces
NIJ Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking Technical Report
This report presents the findings and methodology of an evaluation of the federal ECM Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking Program, which supports communities' development of effective and sustainable multidisciplinary task forces that use victim-centered approaches in identifying survivors of sex and labor trafficking, providing services to survivors, and investigating and prosecuting all forms of human trafficking.
County of Orange Grand Jury Report 2022-2023: Human Sex Trafficking in OC
Orange County Grand Jury report review of the major steps local agencies have taken in forming the OCHTTF to combat human trafficking and evaluates the attempts being made to increase public awareness and educational steps being taken throughout Orange County that are underway or need to be enhanced.