About This Course
This course is designed to raise awareness about the critical issue of child sex trafficking, helping you understand the signs, risks, and how to protect vulnerable children in our communities. By the end of this course, you will have the tools and knowledge needed to recognize warning signs, intervene effectively, and work towards ending this horrible crime. Together, we can help create a safer world for children and ensure that every child has the right to grow up in a safe, loving environment. Let's begin our journey to make a difference!
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Meet Your Instructor
Lindsey Speed, Traffick911
Lindsey’s passion for advocating for those treated unfairly stems from her own childhood experience. That passion led her to join Traffick911’s grassroots team of volunteer pioneers in 2010 and ultimately to leave her job in corporate America in 2012 to serve full time. Traffick911’s unique response to trafficking victims, the Voice & Choice Survivor Empowerment Program, was developed by Lindsey in 2017 as a response to what she learned from working with heroes in the anti-trafficking field, and building long-lasting relationships with trafficked youth.
Lindsey has trained thousands of professionals across the state of Texas and serves on several coalitions and multidisciplinary teams strategizing anti-trafficking policies and emerging best practices. She currently serves as a member of the Texas CSEY Care Coordination State Partner Advisory Council (CCSPAC) through the Officer of the Governor. After serving in the anti-trafficking field for almost fifteen years, one of her favorite topics to discuss is ‘free people free people’ - the discovery of our own brokenness, shared humanity, and stories as we walk alongside others seeking freedom.
In 2019, Lindsey was named Advocate of the Year by Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. In 2024, she was awarded at the Texas Academy Awards of Child Advocacy for Outstanding Child Advocate for North Texas by state agency Children At Risk.
Lindsey holds a bachelors from Texas A&M University, is TBRI-trained, is certified to assist victims of crime through the Texas Victim Assistance Training Academy and is a Certified Praesidium Guardian. In her free time, she loves finding hole-in-the-wall local coffee shops, kayaking, golfing, playing the piano and gardening.