Driving Freedom Podcast
Welcome to Driving Freedom, a TAT Podcast! As TAT works to educate, equip, empower and mobilize members of the truck, bus and energy industries to combat human trafficking as part of their regular jobs, we wanted to create a podcast that would serve as a helpful training tool to one of the largest mobile armies of eyes and ears out there on the roads seeking to recognize and report this heinous crime. Each short episode is designed to refresh critical issues learned and keep this life-saving informationtop of mind.
Driving Freedom Podcast
Vulnerabilities to Trafficking: Foster Care with Survivor Advocate Joise Feemster
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Truckers Against Trafficking
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Season 1
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Episode 20
Anti-sex trafficking programs and organizations across the US report that survivors on their caseload are overrepresented by youth or young adults from the foster care system. Some programs even report as high as 85% of the survivors getting services from their programs have had contact with the foster care system. Tune in to hear from Josie Feemster, a survivor advocate who’s worked with survivors who’ve been in the foster care system, as we learn how trafficking and foster care overlap and what we in the trucking and transportation industries can do about it.
Resources:
Intersection of human trafficking and foster care
U.S. Office of Children and Families
The Runaway Hotline