Often, legislation is a keyway survivors and advocates make changes to protect future people from being victimized. The case is the same for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person (MMIP) Epidemic. Current legislation in California seeks to better protect Indigenous people from going missing and or being murdered. This blog will go over some of these current and potential legislations.

Years ago, cell phones were seen as just a means of communication, however, with the rise of Sextortion, predators are using cellular and other technological devices to target others for sexual exploitation. With, sextortion being a recent term among law enforcement and advocates, what exactly is sextortion?

As most of us know, Human Trafficking, like other victimization types, disproportionately affects people of color at a higher rate. In this blog, we will examine why people of color are disproportionately victimized by sex and labor trafficking at higher rates. An important note: when discussing sex trafficking, this blog will focus on female victims of sex trafficking as very little statistical data is available surrounding male victims of sex trafficking. For the Cahuilla Consortium, the limited data in no way minimizes or invalidates the experiences of male victims and survivors of human trafficking.

To finish out our 3-part series on Teen Dating Violence, we will determine what constitutes a healthy relationship. First, however, we will highlight once again some aspects of an unhealthy relationship.

Starting off this blog, we will do a little recap of our previous post. As mentioned, the month of February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month....

2023 is off to a speedy start already! Now that it is February, it means it is also time to increase awareness regarding Teen Dating Violence. Regrettably, like many other violence statistics, the American Indian/Alaska Native population are affected by Teen Dating Violence at a higher rate.

Last January, we completed a blog series on Human Trafficking within the Native American community. This series focused primarily on historical Native American figures who have been trafficked. To many people outside of the Native American community, they were shocked to learn that popularized stories surrounding Pocahontas and Sacagawea had darker truth. For this blog post, we will focus on the prevalence of sex trafficking in modern Indigenous communities.

If you are a regular follower of the Cahuilla Consortium, you are probably aware that January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. However, many people maybe unfamiliar with common terms utilized by traffickers and survivors/current victims of human trafficking.....