In Billings on Friday, over 50 people attended special training from the Montana Department of Justice to help people in the trucking and busing industry help rescue human trafficking victims.
One of the presentations at Thursday’s Sex Trafficking Community Awareness Conference at the University of Montana was the importance of understanding ‘Trauma Bonding’, from Julie Clark with the Salvation Army in Missoula.
This week law enforcement officers from around the northwest will converge in Missoula for training on how to spot and prevent human trafficking and the community is asked to help too.
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Police Detective Guy Baker said sex trafficking occurs everywhere, even in Missoula.