Bostonians: Here's Your Chance

A two-part quiz for people local to the greater Boston area:

Are you:

1. Interested in getting involved with the Love146 Boston Task Force?
2. A parent, teacher, social worker, community youth advocate, or concerned community member wanting to a) know more about the problem of commercial sexual exploitation in the greater Boston area and other major U.S. cities and b) increase at-risk high school students' awareness on the issue?

If yes, you might want to be part of this opportunity.

Love146 is partnering with FAIR Fund as an exploratory phase of bringing a "Tell Your Friends" program to Boston. "Tell Your Friends" (TYF) is an awareness and prevention program created by a Washington D.C.-based organization called Fair Fund. The objective of the TYF program is to educate at-risk high school students about the realities of the commercial sex trade in the US - especially in the cities of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C. 

The "Tell Your Friends" training will be taking place over two workdays near the end of September in the greater Boston area--and not a moment too soon:

• In the United States, an estimated 150,000 youth are at risk toward victimization via commercial sexual exploitation. 
• In 2008, 35 known cases of commercial sexual exploitation of minors was reported by FAIR Fund, the Polaris Project, and other area nonprofits and law enforcement. 
  
• During the pilot year of Tell Your Friends, 450 teens said that they personally knew teens involved in prostitution in D.C. Furthermore, 56 teens disclosed they or a friend were involved in commercial sexual activity.

If you're interested in learning more, leave me a comment or tweet at me (@ebain) and I can provide more details.