I think someone needs to reach out to the guys and let them know, like before they even get the idea, you know, before they start doing it, like pretty much just kill the idea and the thought…Because if you teach about and if a boy starts to have the thought in his head, and then once he actually learns that it's something that's like horrible and stuff, he might not even think about it no more.
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If the schools got more involved, I think it'd be able to like a lot more awareness and people would know that it's happening…Because that's how I had, it started with me, it was when I was in school. It was like me and six other girls…And like boys are thinking that it's cool now because they can do it to their girlfriends. And so that’s, I mean middle, or high school is like my biggest like focus…I mean I was only 16 and I got completely fooled into it. I thought I was gonna be with the guy forever and everything else, and then I ended up having to do stuff for him and his friends… More high school now, but middle school I don't know because now I see like kids in middle school as just kind of, I see kids from how I was…
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The hotel that I used to work at, I'd see girls come in there all the time, and you could tell that they were not wanting to be there….And I mean I know the stuff that goes on in those rooms. I mean I just, I lived there for almost two years, so I know like stuff that goes on in there and everything...I think if people knew like what to look for, it would help a lot too.
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Like with the jails, like girls that keep getting arrested for prostitution and things, I think if someone actually sat down and talked to them…if there might have been like a class or something, you know, like an awareness thing put in the jails…if there was more people…reached out to them, that, there'd be a lot more people coming and talking about it, and there'd be a lot more, people getting in trouble….if there was more education about it…it wouldn't be happening as much, and girls would be able to know who to talk to and where to go.
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I know there’s hotline and stuff, but I think if there was that one place where a girl could go and be like look this is a situation and then they could get the help from there…like safe haven place for them to go…even if it’s for a night, like a safe place for them to come and hide away.
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I think a lot of girls if they had jobs and they were able to actually like have something to look forward to…I think if there was something like…where you got companies involved where they hired girls that were in that specific situation, it would help everything a lot better too, because helping them get a job, housing, counseling like that.…I think if girls like me were able to go and get jobs, that it would help them a lot better to get away…
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Like if someone was to go throw in there like a couple of different ads talking about you know if you need help, an outreach, like this is what you need to do and this is where you need to go, I think that would be like technology wise, and like even making an app you know for your phones to where if you're in a situation or something that you can just press one simple button and it's going to, you know, alert somebody.
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I'm really good at this stuff [raising awareness of sex trafficking], and I like try to talk about it a lot. Like at my job when we're hiring for people, like I won't even tell other people. I'll call [name redacted] and ask her if there's girls that need jobs, and then I'll pass it along to my boss. Like that's my thing.
Narrative as found in Shireen S. Rajaram and Sriyani Tidball, “Nebraska Sex Trafficking Survivors Speak —A Qualitative Research Study,” Faculty Publications, College of Journalism & Mass Communications (2016)
