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Governor Newsom Must Provide Specific Funding for Human Trafficking Victims When He Provides Budget Augmentation for those Most at Risk
(LOS ANGELES, CA) – Today, the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (Cast) released the following statement in response to Governor Newsom’s coronavirus-related announcement: “We applaud Governor Newsom for his...
Social Distancing Without Being Alone
If the coronavirus pandemic has revealed anything, it is the stark inequalities vulnerable people endure. Faced with barriers to accessing care that will protect them and their families, human trafficking...
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...