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Human Trafficking Prevention Resources

Published on: December 21, 2022

Public transportation intersects almost every form of human trafficking and we all play a vital role in stopping it. Busing on the Lookout (BOTL) is a national organization offering free industry specific training, toolkits or materials, and has been used by over 245 transit agencies to provide additional training to their staff. For additional information and resources, visit the National Human Trafficking Hotline website, call 888-373-7888 or text 233733.

The bus industry has a key role to play in combating human trafficking, particularly as frontline employees may be coming into contact with victims of human trafficking in the course of their everyday jobs. Learn more about each transit subset’s possible intersections with human trafficking and how you can get involved in fighting this heinous crime: School Transportation, Transit & Motorcoach, Casinos & Buses.

Access awareness materials here.

Human Trafficking Resources:

Crime and Human Trafficking Prevention for Smaller Transit Agencies: A resource center created in 2023 by the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA), the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), and the Southwest Transit Association (SWTA), this website has printable materials, podcast episodes, videos, training slides, and social media guides on human trafficking specifically designed for smaller transit systems.

MnDOT’s Library of Resources on Human Trafficking: A list of organizations partnered with MnDOT and downloadable posters for transit systems.

Online Courses

• Busing on the Lookout (BOTL): a 30-minute course in National RTAP’s e-learning portal. Contact Minnesota RTAP if you need help getting access.
• Busing on the Lookout (BOTL) Refresher

Posters

RTAP will print posters and mail them to you. Just let us know how many you need. Posters are ordered once a month to print in bulk, when possible. Email Mariah Kathan the number of posters you need and which poster(s) you want printed.

for your staff room: 

• Stages of Trafficking 
• Human Trafficking Intervention in Tribal Transit
• Labor and Sex Trafficking Impacts (also available in Spanish and Chinese here)
• Bus Break Room Poster, from Busing on the Lookout
• Dispatch Poster, from Busing on the Lookout

for your buses

• Human Trafficking Prevention 
• DOT Put the Brakes on Human Trafficking Poster 1 The USDOT requests that users sign the Transportation Leaders Against Human Trafficking (TLAHT) pledge to utilize this poster. 
• DOT Put the Brakes on Human Trafficking Poster 2 The USDOT requests that users sign the TLAHT pledge to utilize this poster. 
• Faces of Human Trafficking Poster
• Native Communities Awareness Poster Series
• Victim Awareness Poster Series
• What Does Human Trafficking Look Like? Poster Series
• “I Speak” Poster

Dash Stickers from Busing on the Lookout also available to order.

Contact Numbers

• To report suspected human trafficking to Federal law enforcement: call 1-866-347-2423
• To get help from the National Human Trafficking Hotline, call 1-888-373-7888 or text HELP or INFO to BeFree (233733)