During Human Trafficking Awareness month, the SAFE Center was invited to lead a training session for staff at the...
Learn moreOur Human Trafficking Awareness Month event, First Step into Employment: Empowering Human Trafficking Survivors through Economic Opportunities, highlighted the...
Learn moreAllison Norris, Esq., Legal Immigration Services Director at the SAFE Center, was invited by the U.S. Conference of Catholic...
Learn moreSource: Marriott International | July 27, 2023 In recognition of World Day against Trafficking in Persons on July 30,...
Learn moreSource: Maryland Today| July 27, 2023 Marriott International and the University of Maryland Support, Advocacy, Freedom, and Empowerment (SAFE) Center for Human...
Learn moreSource: AHLA Foundation| July 19, 2023 WASHINGTON (July 19, 2023) – The AHLA Foundation announced $500,000 in inaugural No Room for...
Learn moreSAFE Center Director of Equity and Community Partnerships, Jatnna Gomez, was confirmed this July by the Prince George’s County...
Learn moreSource: El Tiempo Latino/DCist| July 19, 2023 In 2021, there were just over 300 proven cases of human trafficking...
Learn moreSource: University of Maryland School of Social Work | April 12, 2023 With April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), the...
Learn moreThrough school visits, youth trainings, and peer leadership programs, Prevention Social Worker Tanejah Jones has led the SAFE Center...
Learn moreIn a powerful panel discussion led by the SAFE Center, University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center (UMCRMC) & HEAL...
Learn moreSource: UMB News | January 23, 2023 Susan G. Esserman, JD, founder and director of the SAFE (Support, Advocacy, Freedom, and...
Learn moreSource: U.S. Senator Ben Cardin | December 15, 2022 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member...
Learn moreSAFE Center Legal Services Director Alysha (Ali) Welsh was recently appointed by the U.S. Attorney General to serve as an Immigration...
Learn moreSource: WTOP | December 3, 2022 Maryland’s second busiest trauma center is receiving federal funding to help identify and...
Learn moreCollege Park, MD (November 30, 2022) – The Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded the...
Learn moreThe SAFE Center filed comments urging the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to adapt and deploy existing international ...
Learn moreThe SAFE Center partnered with Spectrum Foods and Poultry, a University of Maryland, College Park alumni-owned company, to host...
Learn moreSAFE Center Research and Program Coordinator Sophie Aron was named Vice Chair of the Montgomery County Human Trafficking Prevention...
Learn moreSocial service providers approach their work with the desire to support and empower others. Anti-trafficking organizations, despite a focus...
Learn moreThe UMD SAFE Center decries the structural racism that remains as a toxic legacy of our country’s history and permeates our society today, and we are working to ensure that we are an actively anti-racist institution.
