Over 95% of the kids that we work with were trafficked at age 13 or younger. Almost 99% of our kids have histories of sexual abuse prior to being trafficked. No child should have to endure the first incident, but absolutely not the subsequent revictimization that occurs.
“It really don’t take much to share food. I never think I don’t have enough to share. Jesus fed people, he encouraged people, and he asked people how they were doing. If we could do that, we’d be all right.”
“Working in partnership with people directly experiencing lack of health care, I saw the injustice of people not being able to access health care and what a great contributor it was to homelessness.”
At February Town Hall, community members agreed that researchers must take time to be present in the communities they are researching, build trust, and observe people in the environments in which they live.
We expected age, sex, and BMI to be contributors [to back pain], but we found that the top 2 out of 1000+ variables were income and education. Now my research group focuses on how social determinants of health are related to spine disease and low back pain.