How School Transportation Can Combat Human Trafficking
Self-Directed
Certificate
~ 35 Minutes
School transportation employees can play a crucial role in identifying and responding to potential cases of child trafficking, especially as the school bus is an integral component of the school environment.
Human trafficking occurs in the U.S. and Canada when people are subject to forced labor or illegally bought and sold for commercial sex. Child victims of trafficking will often continue attending school – and riding the school bus – while being exploited behind the scenes. Traffickers can be family members, someone posing as a romantic interest or a trusted adult in the child’s life. Any minor engaged in commercial sex is a victim of human trafficking.
This course, which takes approximately 30 minutes to complete, features the story of a survivor of child trafficking, who attended school and rode the school bus every day while being trafficked behind the scenes by her mother. It also highlights the steps school transportation staff can take to play a role in fighting this heinous crime.
