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I would like my social issue to be human trafficking or homelesness. Community education and advocacy are both important components of the work that human service professionals do with children and their families. Both types of interventions play an important role in work with this population. For this Assignment, you are going to have the opportunity to choose a social issue that impacts children and their families and discuss the influence of both advocacy and community education on the issue that you identify.
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Advocacy for Children and Families: Human Trafficking
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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Advocacy for children and families: human trafficking
Human trafficking involves actions of tradeoff humans for purposes that may include
but not limited to sexual exploitation, sexual slavery, drug trade, and forced labor. As at
present, more than 20 million people are slaves in various parts around the world, and with
the values going as high as between 600,000 to 800,000 every year around the world
(Aronowitz, 2017). Of all the mentioned reasons for human trafficking, sexual exploitation
takes the lead with more than a fifth of the total victims. There is a great discrepancy in
human sex trafficking. While the industry, which happens to be worth at least US$ 150
billion, affects millions of victims, more than 55% of all the victims are females while
children form the largest proportion at 50% (Alvarez, 2016; Do Something, 2017). On the
same note, a recent report by CNN (2017) reported that human trafficking also comprises of
sexual slavery where individuals, and mainly females and younger people, are trafficked for
sexual slavery and that has shown a significant increase in the recent past. Similar to other
regions, human trafficking has been rising in the recent past in the US. In 2016, for example,
the figures rose by 35.7% to reach 7,572 and with females alone being as high as 6340 (Cone,
2017).
Ways that a human service professional could advocate for human trafficking
One way that human service prof...