Please join us Friday evening, April 29th to help us raise money to continue providing residential transitional care for survivors of human trafficking. 

When: Friday, April 29 at 6:30pm 

Where: Hilton Garden Inn at 3320 S. 9th Street in Salina 


Registration and the silent auction will begin at 6:30pm with the Dinner and Program commencing at 7pm. 

Individual tickets are $50 or you can host a table of 8 for $400. 

Buy your table or tickets here. 

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If you'd like to sponsor the event, here are some options. 

Platinum: $2,500 (name & logo on print materials, special media mention on radio, press release, and social media, a table for 8; cash or in-kind)
Gold: $1,000 (name & logo on print materials, social media mention, and 4 event tickets; cash or in-kind)
Silver: $250 (name on print materials, social media mention and 2 event tickets)

An educational volunteer training will be held on Friday, April 1st and Saturday, April 2nd. The training is free to all and no registration is required. Just show up ready to learn about human trafficking and what you can do to help join the fight. 

The training will be held at Westview Community Church in the worship center.

• Friday: 6:30- 8:30pm 
• Saturday: 9am-3pm (an onsite lunch will be available or you're free to leave and pick something up) 

Speakers and Topics: 

• Anita Peterman: Female Sexual Addiction (This is a prevalent issue that is often overlooked with trafficking survivors as drug/alcohol addiction and mental illness and trauma are usually the main focus).
• Kendra Eboigbodin: Spiritual Roots of Addiction, Strongholds that Lead to Unhealthy Relationships like HST, and the Connection Between Domestic violence and HST  (2 sessions)
• Meredith/Julius Galvan: The Difference Between Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance and the Importance of Both (This should be part of the discipleship process of Christ-followers but is lacking in many of our churches).
• Sherri Thompson: Rebuilding a Life After Trauma 
• Homestead Survivor Panel
• Homestead Team Panel 

HST survivors have opened SO many doors that have given the enemy the opportunity to operate powerfully in their lives!  This is the holistic piece missing in many survivor’s healing.

About the Speakers:

• Anita Peterman is a Licensed Professional Counselor and owner of Thrive Counseling Services, LLC. She has been in private practice since 2016 working with women on various mental health and relational issues. She is married to Bob Peterman for the past 34 years and has three adult children and one grandchild. She has also been Director of Care and Recovery Ministries at Faith Evangelical Free Church in Manhattan, Kansas for the past 10 years. Her education has been in Child Development and Family Studies for her bachelor’s degree; she has a master’s in Counseling and Personnel Services with additional ph.D. level coursework in Professional Counseling from Purdue University. She also is Director of Human Resources for a family-owned business, R.J. Peterman & Associates, Inc. for the past 17 years.
  
  
• Kendra Eboigbodin is a domestic violence survivor is a 20+ year educator and highly requested speaker in overcoming trauma, revealing authentic identity, and fulfilling purpose. Kendra coaches and trains youth, women, and organizations to equip individuals with confidence and resiliency to excel in ministry, education, and business.
  
  
• Meredith & Julius Galvan experienced a visit to Spokane Healing Rooms in 2010, which led to the adventure of a lifetime. Both received healing. Julius experienced salvation for the first time and Meredith was baptized in the Holy Spirit. Their lives were radically changed, beginning the walk of faith that eventually led them to Kansas. Julius & Meredith have a passion to see the Body of Christ healed and the oppressed set free. Their vision is to see Healing Rooms in every community. They are bound to the strong belief that every Christ follower (to whomsoever believe) is empowered to do the work of the Kingdom and do their part to obey the Great Commission. 
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• Sherri Thompson is a Registered Nurse working as a post surgical nurse in Davenport, Iowa. In conjunction with nursing, Sherri also mentors women recovering from addiction at the One Eighty Women’s House and recently initiated a women's mentorship ministry at her home church. For the past ten years, Sherri has mentored a diverse group of women to include the incarcerated, the recovering addict, those exiting sex trafficking and the everyday woman in Christ.
  
  Through her work as a nurse and mentor, Sherri has acquired a wealth of experience in helping women to rebuild a life of balance after devastating circumstances. Her passion is to see people go from surviving to thriving in their mind, body and spirit.
  
  Working and mentoring isn’t all Sherri enjoys doing. She has a profitable artisan soap making hobby, loves to travel and spend quality time with her three grown children and six grand children.
  

How to Recognize Human Trafficking- Be Aware
Recognizing someone who is being trafficked is hard. Why? Because it is happening everywhere, right under your nose. In Kansas, the symbol for a trafficking victim is a cloverleaf.  Like cloverleafs, they can be found if one knows what to look for. The first step is to be aware, to look at everyone around you in literally every setting. Because victims are everywhere.  Grocery stores, schools, coffee shops, gas stations. They are daughters, moms, sisters, aunts, even grandmas. They are hidden in plain sight.



How to Recognize Victims 
Some of the trafficking survivors who have come through Homestead have been obvious ones.  Girls who have aged out of foster care. Women who dance in clubs. Women in poverty who are at high risk. Those who have low self esteem, are vulnerable, who have had hard upbringings.  Those who experienced sexual abuse and other childhood trauma. These follow the statistics of those who are at risk for trafficking. But many of the women have not fit into traditional or statistical norms for those at risk for trafficking. Many were regular moms, wives, middle class members of society, church attenders, soccer moms. Some started with an addiction that led them to the streets. Some started with an online relationship. Some were trafficked by a boyfriend.



How Human Trafficking Happens
Some women find themselves in human trafficking in less obvious ways and it can happen in all demographics and any neighborhood.

• Nelly was a model student, in the orchestra, good grades, and a supportive family.  Her unresolved pain led her into a rebellious crowd. Her body was traded for a drug debt her boyfriend owed.  She started using drugs then broke the law.
• Anna was in a domestic violence situation with her children’s father.  He abused her then invited his friends to do so also. And to rape her. She fled to the streets the prostituted to survive.
• Lisa fled to the streets in shame from her addiction to alcohol.  There she was introduced to drugs. Prostitution was how she survived and a result of her shame cycle.  
• Cara started stealing from a convenience store to feed her children after moving to another state where she knew no one.  She learned of a strip club down the street so started dancing.  She could make $50 a night stripping or $400 turning tricks.  
• Amanda suffered from postpartum depression which led to self medicating through alcohol and meaningless sex. This led to addiction to sex and drugs which led to harder drugs.  She turned tricks to meet the addiction, all while hiding it from her husband
• Effie fell into drugs in her own home after being introduced to them by a friend.  She learned about escorting on the internet. She dressed up and went out with her “friends” that were really “dates”, hiding the truth from her family the whole time.  
• Tonya participated in phone and internet sex from Craig’s list never actually meeting in person with her traffickers.  
• 13 year old Katelyn found an app on her phone where she could meet men who paid attention to her and bought her things. Slowly, they groomed her into sex trafficking. 
  
  

You may have noticed that none of the above stories involved a girl or woman being kidnapped by someone she didn’t know and taken to a foreign country and sold for slave acts. That’s what many people have thought human trafficking- sex trafficking- involves. But it’s more complicated than that and understanding can help shine a light on these situations, recognize when it may be happening, and allow you to help stop it.



What to do if You Think Someone Might be a Victim of Human Trafficking

If you have information about a trafficking situation, here are some tips from the National Human Trafficking Hotline:

• Call the National Human Trafficking Hotline toll-free hotline at 1-888-373-7888: Anti-Trafficking Hotline Advocates are available 24/7 to take reports of potential human trafficking. 
• Text the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 233733. Message and data rates may apply.
• Chat the National Human Trafficking Hotline: www.humantraffickinghotline.org/chat
  
• Submit a tip online through the anonymous online reporting form below. However, please note that if the situation is urgent or occurred within the last 24 hours we would encourage you to call, text or chat.

The information you provide will be reviewed by the Trafficking Hotline. All reports are confidential and you may remain anonymous. Interpreters are available via phone call only. Learn more about the Hotline's approach and policies regarding reporting trafficking situations to law enforcement.

Report missing children or child pornography to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) at 1-800-THE-LOST (843-5678) or through their Cybertipline.



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Read more here: 

• What is Sex Trafficking? 
• How The Homestead Helps Women by Providing Residential Transitional Care