Book Recommendations
FEATURED BOOKS
The trafficking experience can destroy life--yet, with wisdom, strength, and purpose, survivors of human trafficking can not only survive but thrive. Epilogue: Now We Rise Above the Trafficking Experience offers wise counsel and a wealth of resources to every survivor of all forms of human trafficking. Epilogue is both a capstone and a guidepost for survivors who've already transcended their past and aspire to craft comfort in their future of empowered choice.
Drawing from emerging research on relationships, You Make Me Brave: Empowering the Shared Experience of Your Closest Relationships teaches couples how to heighten the impact of the experiences that all couples share. It puts powerful concepts-interpersonal neurobiology, shared experience, phenomenology, and eternal insights-into accessible language. You Make Me Brave encourages couples to share in new and powerful ways.
A vital framework for understanding embodied trauma and helping clients heal—a trauma-informed guide for somatic practitioners, movement therapists, bodyworkers, and personal trainers. Guided by the principle that if trauma happens to the body, healing happens through the body, Trauma-Informed Bodywork offers an inclusive, consent-driven, and mutually empowering approach to trauma-informed healing.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING BOOKS
John Vanek, nationally recognized authority on the response to human trafficking, along with eighteen expert contributors, answers these and other commonly-asked questions about one of the greatest human rights violations today: human trafficking.
In collaboration with The Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University, Ending Human Trafficking is an accessible and compelling resource for Christian leaders, written by seasoned leaders in the struggle against modern slavery.
In Our Backyard invites the reader in to the lives of human trafficking victims, survivors and the traffickers themselves with true stories. These stories not only inform the reader, but also take them quickly through a well-documented crash course about human trafficking.
Through true stories and years of boots-on-the-ground experience, including at the Super Bowl, anti-trafficking expert Nita Belles teaches readers everything they need to know about human trafficking in the United States and what they can do to join the fight against it.
Bringing together conceptual, practice, and advocacy knowledge, Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery: Freedom's Journey by Annalisa Enrile explores the complexities of human trafficking and modern-day slavery through a global perspective
Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the dark realities of modern slavery in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing systems that strip people of their dignity for the sake of profit
TRAUMA-RELATED BOOKS
Working with the Human Trafficking Survivor fills a void in existing literature by providing students, faculty, and professionals in applied, helping disciplines, with a comprehensive text about human trafficking with a focus on clinical issues.his book gives an overview of the medical care, options for psychological treatment, and beyond.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
Dr. Wendy Walsh's outside-the-box approach to relationships turns traditional thinking on its head by using evolutionary psychology to offer advice that is both empowering and practical.
The Journey to Hope is for the many - far too many - who have experienced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse and neglect. It is a journey of healing for those of us who have been hurt, abused, belittled, or shamed; who have felt betrayed, blamed or confused. Everyone’s story is unique.
In this game-changing book, therapist and mental health expert Dr. Anita Phillips reveals how embracing emotion is the key to living your most powerful life. Just as gardens thrive in good ground, the abundant life you’ve been seeking can only be grown in the soil of your heart.
SURVIVOR STORIES/BIOGRAPHICAL
Harmony lives a double life as Monique, a dancer in a fully-nude strip club. Scars and Stilettos is Harmony’s , honest, and ultimately hopeful story of how God found her in that dark, noisy place and led her out.“Harmony’s story is compelling evidence of how far the love of God reaches to heal broken lives and restore all that has been stolen.”
Rachel Lloyd’s riveting survivor story is the true tale of her hard-won escape from the commercial sex industry and her bold founding of GEMS, New York City’s Girls Education and Mentoring Service, to help countless other young girls escape "the life." Lloyd’s unflinchingly honest memoir is a unforgettable story.
Shyima is passionate about helping to rescue others who are in bondage. Now a US citizen, she regularly speaks out about human trafficking and intends to one day become an immigration officer. In Hidden Girl, Shyima candidly reveals how she overcame her harrowing circumstances to raise awareness.
The average age of entry into prostitution in America is 13 years old. Forced into a life they never chose, manipulated, abused and tortured at the hands of the pimps who control them, our country's children are sold on the streets, on the internet and at truck stops across America every night.
Every year, more than 300,000 youth are victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation across the United States. What’s scarcely known is that Black Girls are disproportionately ‘at risk’ of being trafficked and their stories often go untold for reasons far more complicated than mere reporting.
Kelley Marshall is a speaker, mentor, radio show host and advocate and survivor of human trafficking, domestic violence and sexual assault.In "Shhh...I've Got a Secret", Kelley shares how her childhood abuse made her easy prey for traffickers and predators due to her lack of self esteem and self confidence.
PODCASTS
Do you want to learn how to use your own skills, resources, and expertise to fight human trafficking? You’re in the right place! Our podcast episodes cover the full range of human trafficking issues, directly from the voices of experts in the field.
DATA AND RESEARCH
Nadien Finigan - Carr
Nadine M Finigan-Carr, Ph.D., is a prevention research scientist focused on the application of behavioral and social science perspectives to research on contemporary health problems, especially those that disproportionately affect people of color. Recently, she was named the inaugural Executive Director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Center for Violence Prevention.
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Danielle Thomas
Dr. Danielle Thomas serves as the Victim Services Coordinator at the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy, where she supports statewide victim services initiatives and the ongoing development of Maryland’s sexual assault and human trafficking response. She began her work in this field as a Regional Navigator for the Lower Eastern Shore, building a multidisciplinary program that served the rural region.
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