You are invited to join us on Sunday, September 24 at 2:00 in the Wilbur Aalfs library's Gleeson Room. We will first look at human trafficking here and any parallels/differences to the movie Sound of Freedom. This will be followed by a panel of local advocates and law enforcement from SafePlace, Haven House, Lila Mae's House and the Sioux City Police Dept. They will talk about what they are see, do, and how you can help.
Sioux City Human Rights & the Siouxland Coalition Against Human Trafficking presents: Human Trafficking in Siouxland: Facts on Human Trafficking Forum this January 25th, 2024 at 6pm at the Sioux City Public Museum on 607 4th Street.
All are welcome & light refreshments will be served!
For questions, call 712+279-6985
Members of the Siouxland Coalition against Human Trafficking at a Siouxland Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting help to celebrate the kick-off of the Coalition's "Light Up in Blue Campaign"
Light Up in Blue in January - National Human Trafficking Prevention month. Blue is the color assigned to the issue of human trafficking. and we are encouraging businesses, institutions, non-profits, families and individuals to light up their space (whether it's a building, office, desk or window) in blue for January - National Human Trafficking Prevention month.
If you want to join in the effort, we would be happy to provide you with a 5 1/2x 7" window sign or table tent that says you are participating in "Light Up in Blue" to call attention to human trafficking and that has our contact information. We also ask that if you do light up in blue, you send a picture to our Facebook page (Please include the name of your business, group, family, etc.)
Already have blue lights up for Christmas? Feel free to keep them up and just let us and others know that you are participating in Light Up in Blue to recognize National Human Trafficking Prevention month. You won't be alone: The Siouxland Chamber of Commerce is leaving their blue lights on and Sioux City Downtown Partners are keeping the blue lights over 4th. St. blue for the cause!
For more information or to let us know you are participating or to get a window sign/table tent, just contact us at scahtinc@gmail.com .
We are participating in Downtown Partners’ Holiday Storefront Decorating Competition. Our windows are at 1016 4th St. (The Small Business Marketplace is in there, too!). To vote in the competition, click here.
Voting ends on December 26.
Please join us on Wednesday, December 6 at 4:30 at the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce (101 Pierce St.) for a ribbon cutting. We will be kicking off our “Light Up in Blue” project. We are encouraging businesses, organizations, families or individuals to light up their space in blue for the month of January, which is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. For more information on the project, contact Bernadette at scahtinc@gmail.com.
If you do light up in blue, please let us know, and share a picture (and identify it if not obvious) on our Facebook page by clicking here.
We will have a short printed explanation that you are doing this to help raise awareness of the problem of human trafficking for National Human Trafficking Prevention Month available to put in your window if you would like it .
Businesses and non-profits that light up in blue are halfway to becoming an Iowa Business against Trafficking (IBAT). The other part is to learn something, and we would be happy to help you with that also. For more information on IBAT, go to ibat.iowa.gov.
You are invited to join us on Sunday, September 24 at 2:00 in the Wilbur Aalfs library's Gleeson Room. We will first look at human trafficking here and any parallels/differences to the movie Sound of Freedom. This will be followed by a panel of local advocates and law enforcement from SafePlace, Haven House, Lila Mae's House and the Sioux City Police Dept. They will talk about what they are see, do, and how you can help.
Have you noticed there have been several human trafficking billboards around town lately? Thanks to a joint effort of the Siouxland Coalition against Human Trafficking and the Woodbury County Attorney’s Office, four billboards have gone up in Woodbury County since the beginning of August. In mid-November one billboard will be up on I-29 entering Sioux City.
