of Southern Colorado

Our Mission

Vision: To end human trafficking, thereby reducing suffering and making our community safer.

The mission of the Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado is to build a collaboration of organizations and individuals to reduce human suffering caused by human trafficking, through advocacy, awareness, rehabilitation, and services for survivors.

This Task Force is open to all interested individuals and organizations. Should you be interested in participating with us to stop Modern Day Slavery in our area, please feel free to attend our Task Force meetings. Please let us know if you are interested in attending.

2nd Tuesday of each month
First United Methodist Church
410 N. Nevada, Room #234, South Entrance
5:30pm - 7:30pm

Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Our speaker will be Aubrey Terry! She will present updated information about human trafficking and the Task Force. Her title will be: Human Trafficking and You! We are all connected.

Aubrey Terry has her Master's in Social work and is the Director of Programs at Women’s Resource Agency and teaches Social Work classes at Pikes Peak Community College. Aubrey has 13 years of nonprofit experience, working with populations affected by domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health issues and poverty. Aubrey specializes in empowering women and girls to reach their goals and transform themselves regardless of the inequality they may face. Aubrey became involved in the Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado three years ago. For the taskforce she sits on the Board of Directors, oversees the presentation committee, and delivers training to service and church groups throughout the city.

Hope to see you there!

Give! 2011 Campaign:

A huge THANK YOU to all our supporters who contributed time, items, and money to the recent GIVE! Campaign during November and December, 2011! Our results were outstanding and two levels above exciting! We had a goal of $5,000 in donations in order receive a matching grant from the Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation of $1,000. I just checked the www.indygive.com to make sure I had the latest number and we received, wait for it.....$5,596!!! in donations!! We show 31 young donors and 89 total donors to our cause.

There is to be an award ceremony on January 31, 4:30-6:30, where we will be presented what we estimate to be a total of $6,596!! Can you imagine how many more victims of trafficking we can find, how many additional groups we can take our message to, how many survivors we can provide needed supplies for, how much more we can do legislatively and with our community governments to help victims and survivors of human trafficking, due to your generosity? We will have an awesome year of accomplishment with many special thanks to all of you!

You are appreciated, Thank You,

Betty Edwards, Chairman
Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado
www.ht-colorado.org
719-598-7992