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Human Trafficking could happen anywhere. Here's how we can be equipped to respond.
Human Trafficking could happen anywhere. Here's how we can be equipped to respond.

Headlines inflaming fears about human trafficking of children dominate news outlets and community social media discussions. Parents are terrified of scary strangers lurking in grocery store parking lots. They feel compassion for victims they perceive as threatened by traffickers prowling United States borders. The uncomfortable truth lies much closer to home. In reality, parents should be more afraid of the thousands of strangers regularly invited into the bedroom of unsuspecting children each night through social media in a world where trafficking is moving from the street to the smartphone.

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Research, Editor's PicksRachel Wolfehuman trafficking, school nurses, community, trafficking research
Community transport - a mobility service with a social dimension
Community transport - a mobility service with a social dimension

Around the world, public transportation (PT) services are the most common and longest-established type of “shared mobility”. When we now think about rural areas, this concept of PT is at odds with rural mobility patterns, where population density is lower and population is usually scattered in numerous small settlements, from individual farm sites to country towns. This translates into a low density of demand. One way to combat this is by giving more space to locally planned and operated services and to develop better-tailored solutions and more cost-efficient ways of service provision.

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ResearchRachel Wolfepublic transportation, community, community transport, volunteer-base community transport, PT