Research
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What Safe House Project’s 2026 Data Analysis reveals about child welfare involvement, missing-from-care episodes, and trafficking risk. Pages 18 - 22 focuses on the Child Welfare Nexus highlighting:
Active system involvement, elopement, and missing from care
Multiple system touchpoints
Why youth leave care and recommendations for responses
Comprehensive child welfare recommendations
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Bobbi Starr’s independent study reviews research on the commercial sexual exploitation of children, including trauma, foster care involvement, runaway and juvenile justice experiences, and the frontline advocacy needed to better identify and respond to vulnerable youth in the Muscogee County community. Click here to read Bobbi’s Independent Study.
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Rights4Girls’ Buyers Unmasked shifts attention to the demand that fuels commercial sexual exploitation, using buyers’ own words and national data to expose the attitudes and inequities that sustain the sex trade. The report also examines survivor-centered policy solutions that prioritize services and legal protection for exploited individuals while holding buyers, traffickers, and other exploiters accountable.
Click here to read the research from right4girls
Content warning: content note: This report contains explicit, misogynistic, racist, and dehumanizing language quoted directly from sex buyers.