STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Stop Human Trafficking Workshop 2013 | |
Second Annual Workshop March 5, 2011
Temple Baptist Church
Third Annual Workshop March 3, 2012
Temple Baptist Church
Fourth Annual Workshop Jan 12, 2013
Bear Creek HS, Stockton
Paula sells items made by Survivors
Adam Cortes from "One Voice" in Lodi
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Stop Human Trafficking workshop 2012
Germaine, Phyllis, Pat, Bev, Kim, Ora, Debbie, Pat,
Sue, Merry
Debbie, Lori, Sue
SI Sunrise member, Speaker -L. "Rico" Ozaki, Esq. and Workshop chairman Kim Williams
Approximately 90 people attended the workshop
Raffle prizes
Susan Hitchcock former mayor, welcomed participants
Susan Hitchcock introduces
Nilda Valmores, Rico Ozaki and John Vincent
Speakers Nilda Valmores, Rico Ozaki
From My Sister's House, Sacramento
Welcome
Welcome to the third annual workshop to “Stop Human Trafficking”. This event is co-sponsored by the Women’s Center of San Joaquin County, Soroptimist International of Lodi and Lodi Sunrise and the Lodi branches of the Salvation Army, Business and Professional Women’s Foundation (BPW) and American Association for University Women (AAUW). We are grateful for your participation in this workshop.
The workshop is intended to instill knowledge in the public, promote advocacy for victim’s rights, and draw the community to action. Come learn what you can do to help stop the violent trade of human trafficking.
Guest Speakers
Keynote speaker Nilda Valmores is the Executive Director of My Sister’s House in Sacramento. My Sister's House is the first and only non-profit organization to specifically identify and address the unique needs of women and children impacted by domestic violence in the Central Valley's highly diverse Asian and Pacific Islander community.
The keynote address will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Valmores, L. "Rico" Ozaki, Esq., Human Trafficking Specialist for My Sister’s House; and John Vincent, Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.
Opportunities Following Workshop
You will have an opportunity to ask questions of the speaker. Free information, a resource list and a DVD are available in the Lobby.
You can also “shop” in the lobby. Vendor will be selling items handcrafted by women and girls escaping life as sex slaves. Agape International Missions has items made by girls in Cambodia and sales proceeds will be sent back to Cambodia.
Refreshments will be served outside.
Raffle
Tickets will be sold for raffle prizes that were donated by the host groups. All proceeds from sales and donations will directly benefit organizations that work to stop human trafficking: Women’s Center of San Joaquin County, My Sister’s House and Soroptimist International of the Americas Human Trafficking Awareness program.
Emcee
Susan Hitchcock is currently a Lodi Unified School District elementary school principal at Clairmont Elementary School and has worked in education for thirty years. She is a former two-time Mayor of the City of Lodi and has served three terms on the Lodi City Council after her initial election in 1998. Prior to serving on the Lodi City Council, Ms. Hitchcock served 13 years on the City of Lodi Planning Commission from 1982 to 1995. She believes there is no greater calling than making a difference in one's community and opportunities present themselves over and over when we have an open mind and heart.Sponsors
Sun-Maid Growers of California
“Since 1912”
Ray Morgan Company
Sheri's Hair Shop and Boutique
Lakewood Mall
Burke Optometry
Stop Trafficking Workshop 2011
Barbara, Kim, Germaine, SusanB, Merry, Speaker Kay Buck, Bev and Lori
Welcome
Welcome to
the second annual workshop to “Stop Human Trafficking”. This event is co-sponsored by the Women’s
Center of San Joaquin County, Soroptimist International of Lodi and Lodi
Sunrise and the Lodi branches of the Salvation Army, Business and Professional
Women’s Foundation (BPW) and American Association for University Women (AAUW). We are grateful for your participation in
this workshop.
Guest Speaker 2011
The program speaker is Kay Buck, Executive
Director of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) in Los Angeles. The mission
of CAST is to assist persons trafficked for the purpose of forced labor and
slavery-like practices and to work toward ending all instances of such human
rights violations. The workshop is intended to instill knowledge in the public,
promote advocacy for victim’s rights, and draw the community to action. Come
and learn what you can do to help stop the violent trading of human lives.
Speaker 2012
Nilda Valmores, Executive Director, My Sister's House, Sacramento, CA
Bev, Merry and Joelle Gomez accept Proclamation from Mayor Bob Johnson at the Lodi City Council for the Stop Human Trafficking workshop.
SOS day 2010
STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING
March 6, 2010
801 Lower Sacramento Rd (Temple
Baptist Church)
Speakers: Sister Caritas of “Sisters of the Holy
Family” &
Nola Brantley of MISSSEY, Inc
Co-sponsored by
Soroptimist International
of Lodi, Soroptimist International of Lodi Sunrise,
American Association of
University Women - Lodi Branch,
Salvation Army, Women's
Center of San Joaquin, Lodi Business & Professional Women
Saturday, March 6 we held our workshop to educate the public on the subject of Human Trafficking and to raise funds for four charities that support the effort to stop human trafficking. Our speakers, Nola Brantley, cofounder of MISSSEY, Inc. (MISSSEY stands for Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, Serving, Sexually-Exploited Youth) and Sister Caritas Foster of the Sisters of the Holy Family were both very dynamic in their presentations. After the bills were paid, we had about $2100 remaining to split between four charities: Women’s Center of San Joaquin County, MISSSEY, Inc., Sisters of the Holy Family and Soroptimist International Trafficking Awareness campaign. This is a great success, and sending over $500 to each charity should make each of us feel warm and fuzzy inside. We accomplished this task with a lot of help from many different people and groups, so I want to make sure that we recognize everyone’s efforts. Thank you cards were sent to the two vendors, Agape International Mission and TassaTags, co-sponors, donors, and speakers. SI Lodi Sunrise brought in financial donors so the costs of holding the event were covered, and the six co-sponsoring groups didn’t have to spend any money to put on the event. That was a blessing we couldn’t have foreseen. Finally, giant thanks and hugs again to Kim Williams, for being the chairman for this event and coordinating everything to make it run smoothly. President Germaine Burke
SI Lodi Members support the event
Sister Caritas Foster, Nola Brantley, Joelle Gomez- Women's Center and Mayor Susan Hitchcock
SOS Day 2009
Members hosted a Birthday Party for the children at the Mary Graham Children's Shelter