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Mayor Garcetti Announces Program to Provide Entrepreneurship Training to Angelenos Experiencing Homelessness
LA: EnterpRISE will provide career and financial literacy training and access to startup funding opportunities LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced the creation of LA: EnterpRISE, a pilot program...
Protect Migrant Workers from Exploitation
Call on California to revise SB477 Thousands of temporary workers are being trafficked into forced labor in California under threat of violence, deportation, and harm to their families. California attracts more temporary foreign workers than anywhere...
Certain Los Angeles Businesses Will Be Required to Post Human Trafficking Info
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to require certain businesses to post contact information for people to report human trafficking. The notices will have information such as a...
Creative remedies for trafficking survivors are being offered by states
Shutterstock Betsy Hutson met Kendra Ross at a specialized aftercare shelter for human trafficking survivors in 2015, a few years after she escaped from The Value Creators Inc., a nationwide...
Cast is taking charge to increase California’s investment in human trafficking prevention
California Assembly Members Miguel Santiago (D-53rd), Mike Gipson (D-64th), Blanca Rubio (D-48th), and Senator Henry Stern (D-27th) introduce comprehensive legislation and budget proposals to ensure California enacts better measures to...
Cast teams up with the Little Hoover Commission to address labor trafficking in California
Labor trafficking survivors have long made up a significant number of people trafficked in California and the U.S. As a hidden epidemic, labor trafficking is prevalent in our neighborhoods, cities...
New law gives human trafficking survivors access to income loss for commercial exploitation
California’s Governor Newsom has signed a groundbreaking bill into law enabling human trafficking survivors to receive lost income from California’s Crime Victim Compensation Fund (VCP). A first of its kind...
Cast receives National Partnership Award
The Los Angeles-based Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (Cast) has been named the 2019 National Award Winner of the Mutual of America Community Partnership Award. The Mutual of America...
Assemblywoman Christy Smith Advances Legislation to Help Victims of Human Trafficking
SACRAMENTO – Assemblywoman Christy Smith (D-Santa Clarita) and joint-author Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) moved forward AB 629 to help human trafficking victims rebuild their lives. The bill is cosponsored...
Kaiser Permanente Southern California partners with Cast LA to complete Human Trafficking Survivors’ Path to Wellness
CAST coordinates a continuum of compassionate, whole-person care to help victims of human trafficking access the care they need to recover and thrive for a lifetime. Integrated services range from...
