Trafficking Awareness and Prevention

Soroptimist International of Woodland (SI Woodland) has increased community awareness and provided education about the prevalence and conditions of human trafficking in our communities for well over a decade. Our club actively continues to take steps to prevent, educate, and increase awareness about human trafficking by:

Having guest speakers about trafficking at its meetings.
Hosting educational presentations to the community.
Providing resources to trafficking victims in the form of “rescue backpacks.”
Donating funds to Empower Yolo in Woodland and The Table, a drop-in resource center in Sacramento sponsored by 3StrandsGlobal. Like Empower Yolo, The Table provides an array of services to victims of human trafficking.
Donating books about trafficking to Empower Yolo and libraries throughout Yolo County
Partnering with Yolo Bus to provide posters containing crucial information for victims and to increase human trafficking awareness on Yolo Buses and at bus stops throughout the County

TO GET HELP

National Human Trafficking Helpline
Call 1-888-373-7888
Text HELP or INFO to 2337333 (BEFREE)

ADDITIONAL TRAFFICKING RESOURCES

https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign

Prevention

According to the United Nations’ International Labour Organization, of the estimated 27.6 million people worldwide who are trafficked for sex, 78% of victims are girls and women. Recent studies show that 1 in 4 girls who are trafficked were victims of sexual assault by the age of 12.

In 2025, our club began focusing on prevention as a key factor in reducing human trafficking. Members of the SI Woodland Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Committee purchased books about body safety for children and teens. The club donated these books to the Esparto Public Library. The Library displayed the books in January 2025 for Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The club donated other books to Empower Yolo. These books can provide parents and educators with tools to discuss body safety with children and teens. The committee will continue to purchase these books and more, to donate them to libraries throughout Yolo County.

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Library Books

Awareness

In coordination with the Woodland Public Library, members of the SI Woodland Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Committee reviewed, selected, and bought books to raise
awareness about human trafficking and donated them to the Woodland City Public
Library. The books are currently on the shelves and available for checkout. On the inside cover of
these books is a sticker indicating they were gifted by Soroptimist International of Woodland.

We hope these books will assist our community in becoming more educated about human trafficking issues. Below is a list of the books purchased and donated by our club:

Groomed, by Elizabeth Melendez, by Fisher Good
Human Trafficking Around the World, by Stephanie Hepburn
Tricks, by Ellen Hopkins
Sex Trafficking, by Siddharth Kara
Forbidden Workers, by Peter Kwong
Girls Like Us, by Rachel Lloyd
Sold, by Patricia McCormick
Trafficked, by Kim Purcell
Somebody's Daughter, by Julian Sher
A Crime So Monstrous, by E. Benjamin Skinner
The Devil's Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Cellar, by Minette Walters

We continue to look for additional books from different perspectives to add to the Woodland Library's collection and to libraries throughout Yolo County.

Prevention

SI Woodland also donated books designed for teens and children about body safety to the Esparto Public Library and to Empower Yolo.

The books included:

This is MY Body, by Lil Carle and Liuba Syrotiuk
Body Boundaries Make Me Stronger, by Elizabeth Cole
Where Hands Go (body safety rules), by Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs
Do you Have a Secret, by Jennifer Moore-Malinos
Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept, by Jayneen Sanders
The Body Safety Workbook, by Jordyn Wold (a parent’s workbook to teach children how to protect themselves)

The books are currently on the shelves and available for checkout. On the inside cover of the books is a sticker indicating they were gifted by Soroptimist International of Woodland.

We hope these books will assist our community in becoming more educated about human trafficking issues and teens and children about body safety.

We continue to look for additional books from different perspectives to add to the Woodland Library's collection and to libraries throughout Yolo County.