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Build trust, create isolation, fill a need: how to traffic a kid

Yesterday we brought you part of an online presentation called Youth & Internet Safety/Trafficking & Exploitation: How to Have the Conversation.

 Carly Hiti of PAVSA, and Kylee Pass and Tyra Jaramillo of First Witness know these conversations can be awkward, or embarrassing -- or maybe you're just not sure how to lead into them.
 
But the good news - or the bad news, depending on your wheelhouse - is that the conversations they're encouraging you to have with your kids have less to do with the mechanics ... and more to do with feelings and relationships.

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 Trafficking, for example, is generally less about the Hollywood tropes of kidnappings and more about potential predators insinuating themselves into the lives of kids as friends, a listening ear, and someone who seems to treat them as adults.
 
Carly, Kylee and Tyra work with teens, but they work with younger people, too, and they know that curiosity is normal.  But they emphasize if you don't answer those questions yourself, you lose a chance to put the experience in context.

The Duluth MN Trafficking Awareness Facebook page has lots of great resources and videos from this month's Trafficking Awareness virtual events. 
 
And there's a Youth & Internet Safety/Trafficking & Exploitation: How to Have the Conversation session this evening at 5pm.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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