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The Overlap Between Foster Care and Human Trafficking: Understanding the Risks and Taking Action 

37+ Foster Care and Human Trafficking Statistics

The Foster Care to Human Trafficking Pipeline: Why Children and Teens in Foster Care are More Likely to Be Trafficked

Sex and human trafficking in the U.S. disproportionately affects foster youth

Church & State: Working Together to Disrupt the Foster Care to Human Trafficking Pipeline

Child Welfare And Information Gateway: Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation

Examining the Intersections of Family Risk, Foster Care, and Outcomes for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children

Why Youth in Foster Care Are Vulnerable to Human Trafficking and How Caregivers Can Protect Them

Sex Trafficking isn’t just a legal issue, it’s a PEOPLE issue.

When foster care kids are sex trafficked, some states fail to figure it out. A federal audit shows some states don’t conduct federally required screenings.

Examining the Link: Foster Care Runaway Episodes and Human Trafficking (PDF research file)

Statistically Speaking: The Overrepresentation of Foster Youth in Sex Trafficking (Children’s Legal Rights Journal/ Vol. 38, Issue no.1, Article 08)