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For Help Understanding the issue of Sexual Exploitation, Sexual abuse, and the Sex Industry, here are some helpful resources Anne Bissell ”Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor” www.annebissell.com Email: anne@vfjnw.org Anne Bissell, Executive Director Voices for Justice Network/Operation Silver Braid Anne Bissell is the first author/activist and sexual exploitation survivor to bring out the connections between childhood sexual exploitation, pornography, domestic prostitution and international trafficking. “All of these are part of a continuum of sexual crimes that involve turning an actual person into a thing, a commodity. That which becomes a commodity is eventually disposable.” With the Operation Silver Braid campaign, she has brought together all of the programs which she developed, such as: www.thesilverbraid.org, www.sexualabusesurvivors.com, and www.sexindustrysurvivors.com. She is a nationally sought after spokesperson on the topic of commercialized sexual exploitation of children. Voices for Justice Network www.vfjnw.org Voices for Justice Network is a 501 c3 Public Benefit California non-profit corporation. We are dedicated to helping survivors of both sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Our outreach networks throughout the United Sates help locate victims of sexual exploitation and provide them with services that prevent re-victimization. We seek to reveal the interconnections between child porn, child sexual assault, domestic trafficking, and international sex trafficking. Anne Bissell, the executive Director, has spoken for the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and was asked to be a part of a Brain Trust for the former director of Trafficking Rescue and Restore campaign. Our programs are now run in jails, churches, recovery homes, and are in 25 US cities, as well as internationally. Sex Industry Survivors Anonymous www.sexindustrysurvivors.com Email: info@sexindustrysurvivors.com NATIONWIDE TOLLFREE HELPLINE 888 702 7273 This agency, under the charitable organizational structure, Voices for Justice Network, (www.vfjnw.org) provides resources and program information to men and women who want to quite the sex industry, nationwide. Sex Industry survivors include individuals who accept money, material items or any form of exchange for sex or sex related activities. The 12-step groups are available in person, online, by phone or by mail. Meetings can be closed or open. Open meetings are open to non-sex industry individuals such as counselors, or outreach coordinators. Printed meeting material can be requested by email at no cost at Email: info@sexindustrysurvivors.com Services for Survivors of Sexual Exploitation Since childhood sexual exploitation and involvement in the sex industry are linked, we also offer, under the structure of the charitable organization Voices for Justice Network, The Silver Braid Survivors of Sexual Exploitation Network: Operation Silver Braid The Silver Braid Survivors of Sexual Exploitation Network www.thesilverbraid.org www.sexualabusesurvivors.org Our program assists survivors in dealing with the aftereffects of sexual exploitation, such as posttraumatic stress disorder. Our online and city by city programs help locate victims of sexual exploitation, bring them together, and provide them with services that help prevent re-victimization. The first strand of the Silver Braid represents all survivors of sexual exploitation; including girls trafficked by pimps here in the United States, domestic violence survivors, internationally trafficked survivors, and childhood sexual assault survivors. The second strand represents communities. Our programs help the communities understand and become pro-active against the insidious infiltration of the sex industry into small towns, and large cities alike. The third strand represents taking new choices, going in new directions, and becoming a healthier, survivor who is no longer locked in the victim/perpetrator loop. NATIONWIDE TOLLFREE HELPLINE 888 702 7273 |
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