Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS)

Social Media Toolkit

Human Trafficking Prevention/Awareness Month Messaging 2024

The National Human Trafficking Prevention Month campaign takes place annually in January. Please use the text below and attached images, or share directly from our platforms (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.) You may also use the DFPS 2024 Human Trafficking Prevention Month Participation Guide, which contains ideas and activities that anyone can use to help fight human trafficking.

Dates to Remember:

Wear Blue Day: January 11
Week of Prayer to End Human Trafficking: January 8 –14 GRACE

URL:

DFPS - Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation

Sample Social Media Posts

Hashtags: #HumanTraffickingPreventionMonth #LightTheWayEndHumanTrafficking #WearBlueDay #TXPraysToEndHT #TXBlueLights #BeTheOne #TXHTPCC

January marks the start of a new year. It's also National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. At DFPS, we're deeply committed to prioritizing awareness, services, and prevention efforts to end this heinous crime in Texas. Our 2024 Human Trafficking Prevention Month Participation Guide has ideas and activities each one of us can act on. Change comes when we work together.

It's Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Let’s take extra steps and be diligent about the digital space our children inhabit. Double-check games, apps, and social media sites before they hit download.

Do you know the signs of human trafficking happening in your own backyard? Learn how to identify and help victims, watch Look Beneath the Surface.

January 11 is Wear Blue Day, and we're taking a stand and shining a light on the dark realities of human trafficking. This global issue is not confined to any group. It remains hidden in plain sight and often unrecognized. We can all play a role in raising awareness, reporting concerns, and supporting survivors. Get involved! Share your photo donning blue, and let's stand together to end human trafficking.

Human trafficking is a GLOBAL issue, and it takes place right under our noses. WATCH and share this powerful video on human trafficking and Be the One in this fight!

MYTH: Human trafficking is only sex trafficking.

FACT: Sex trafficking is not the only type of human trafficking. Forced labor is another type of human trafficking because both involve exploitation of people.
Go to Red Flags for Labor Trafficking

Staggering Fact Alert: Did you know that human trafficking is one of the most devastating human rights violations occurring across our globe today? Find out resources to bring offenders to justice: Human Trafficking Resources

It takes only one person to find a missing child. See Texas’ current list of Missing Children with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Go to Missing Kids or Missing and Exploited Children

Do you know how to report trafficking? Never attempt to confront a suspected trafficker directly or alert a victim to your suspicions. Your safety as well as the victim’s safety could be in danger.

To report suspected human trafficking, go to IwatchTexas or call 844-643-2251
Dial 911 in an emergency

Want to find ways you can help fight human trafficking? Go to 20 Ways You Can Help to find out more! Anyone can join the fight to #endhumantrafficking.