Storytelling is a powerful tool to connect with audiences, and visual learning helps improve comprehension. We have coupled this approach with bite size videos to offer microlearning.
Walking Wise™ uses an explainer-style animated videos to teach youth and adults about child sex trafficking. View our videos to understand the many tactics used by groomers and traffickers to trap young people in the sex trade.
Getting started is easy. View the video trailers below about 11 topics connected to the commercial sex trade. Gain full access to our 3-minute animated videos and education guide by enrolling in our Walking Wise curriculum program.
Getting Started is Easy
View the video trailers below about 11 topics connected to the commercial sex trade. Gain full access to our 3-minutes animated videos and education guide by enrolling in our Walking Wise curriculum program.
1-in-4 girls and 1-in-13 boys living in the U.S. experience child sexual abuse. 91% of these crimes are perpetrated by someone known and trusted by the child or the child’s family members.
Myths put vulnerable people in greater danger of being trapped by traffickers, trapped for longer, and deprived of the services that could help them reclaim their lives.
125% increase in reports of sex trafficking recruitment on Facebook and a 95% increase on Instagram in 2020 compared to 2019.
29.3 million reports of suspected online child exploitation in 2021, an increase of 35% over 2020. Children 8 to 17 years old are targets for sextortion.
42 billion visits were made to just
one leading pornographic website in 2019.
Boys make up to 36% of children
caught up in the U.S. sex trafficking industry.
A study of over 15 major U.S. cities estimated
that 5% of all males over 18 solicit online sex ads.
15 years old is the average age girls are lured or coerced into sex trafficking.* A successful tactic is to employ female accomplices to recruit teenagers into the sex trade.
100% increase over the past 10 years of homeless youths' reliance on the sex industry for survival.
42% of victims are recruited into
sex trafficking by a member of their own family.
Vulnerabilities of rural communities
to sex trafficking include geographical isolation,
fewer jobs, and a high number of truck stops.
1-in-4 girls and 1-in-13 boys living in the U.S. experience child sexual abuse. 90% of these crimes are perpetrated by someone known and trusted by the child or the child’s family members.
Myths put vulnerable people in greater danger of being trapped by traffickers, trapped for longer, and deprived of the services that could help them reclaim their lives.
125% increase in reports of sex trafficking recruitment on Facebook and a 95% increase on Instagram in 2020 compared to 2019.
29.3 million reports of suspected online child exploitation in 2021, an increase of 35% over 2020. Children 8 to 17 years old are targets for sextortion.
42 billion visits were made to just one leading pornographic website during 2019.
(Website is intentionally unnamed).
Boys make up to 36% of children caught up in the U.S. sex trafficking industry.
A study of over 15 major U.S. cities estimated that 5% of all males over 18 solicit online sex ads.
15 years old is the average age girls are lured or coerced into sex trafficking.* A successful tactic is to employ female accomplices to recruit teenagers into the sex trade.
42% of victims are recruited into sex trafficking by a member of their own family.
Vulnerabilities of rural communities to sex trafficking include geographical isolation, fewer jobs, and a high number of truck stops.
