Child Sex Trafficking in the Permian Basin -- Overview and Discussion

Please join us for a community discussion on child sex trafficking in Midland/Odessa as we start to organize local efforts to address this growing crime and threat to our youth in the Permian Basin. Hear from state and local stakeholders on the status of trafficking and plans to address it. Learn how you can get involved in the fight.

Agenda:

10:30 Welcome and Introductions

10:45 Andrea Sparks, Governor Abbott’s Child Sex Trafficking Team – Eradicating Child Sex Trafficking in Texas: Challenges, Progress and Hope

11:15 Blanca Denise Lance, DFPS Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Division – DFPS policies and procedures re: child sex trafficking

11:45 Working Lunch (provided) -- Local Panel on the Realities of Trafficking in the Permian Basin

12:45 Jamey Caruthers, Children at Risk – Online Exploitation in Midland/Odessa and How You Can Help Stop It

1:15 Cori Armstead, Reflection Ministries – Progress on Meeting the Needs of Victims in the Permian Basin

1:30 Close