3Strands Global Foundation
Advocacy & Policy
We believe that part of prevention is political advocacy & policy on both a local and global level. We know that voices have power, therefore we encourage community members to stand up for victim protection and prevention education implementation.
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Why Legislation Matters
A Domino Effect for ChangeLegislation is more than words on paper—it’s the first domino that sets transformative change in motion. In the fight against human trafficking, federal legislation plays a critical role in ensuring funding reaches the communities that need it most. Federal laws set the framework, but it’s the voices within communities and states that drive awareness, prioritize prevention, and ensure implementation. Advocacy at every level creates a ripple effect that strengthens protections and resources, transforming the fight against exploitation from the ground up.
Federal funding ensures that prevention education and survivor services are not only scalable but sustainable. By providing consistent resources nationwide, it enables programs to implement best practices across all communities, ensuring high-quality support and a unified approach.
Federal funding ensures that prevention education and survivor services are not only scalable but sustainable. By providing consistent resources nationwide, it enables programs to implement best practices across all communities, ensuring high-quality support and a unified approach.
Federal funding ensures that prevention education and survivor services are not only scalable but sustainable. By providing consistent resources nationwide, it enables programs to implement best practices across all communities, ensuring high-quality support and a unified approach.
Building Momentum
3Strands champions state and federal laws in our ongoing commitment to protect and empower survivors.
SB 1414 Increasing Penalties for Soliciting Minors
Made it a felony to solicit, agree to engage, or engage in commercial sex with a minor; increased penalties and required sex offender registration for certain offenses involving minors.
SB 1394 Empowering Survivors through Technology Safety
Required vehicle manufacturers to provide survivors of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, and human trafficking with the ability to disable remote or connected-vehicle tracking features used by abusers.
SB 14
Making Human Trafficking a Serious FelonyAdded human trafficking of a minor to California’s list of “serious felonies,” ensuring stronger penalties under the state’s Three Strikes law and affirming trafficking as a violent crime against children.
TVPRA Strengthening Federal Anti-Trafficking Protections
Reauthorized the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, reinforcing national efforts to prevent trafficking, prosecute offenders, and protect survivors through expanded funding and collaboration.
AB 1227 The Human Trafficking Prevention Education and Training Act
Mandated prevention education on human trafficking—including both labor and sexual exploitation—for students in grades 7-12, and required training for educators to identify and respond to trafficking.
SB 1322 Protecting Exploited Youth from Criminalization
Decriminalized prostitution and related solicitation and loitering offenses for minors under 18, recognizing them as victims of commercial sexual exploitation rather than offenders, and allowing them to become dependents of juvenile court protection.
SB 794 Expanding Comprehensive Sexual Health Education
Required schools to provide comprehensive sexual health education in grades 7-12, including instruction on sexual harassment, assault, relationship abuse, intimate partner violence, and sex trafficking.
SB 1165 Bringing Prevention Education to Classrooms
Recommended that sex trafficking prevention education be taught in California public school classrooms and required its inclusion in future publications of public school health curriculum frameworks.
SB 855 Establishing the CSEC Program
Created the Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) Program, allocating funding for counties to better serve children who have been sexually exploited through multidisciplinary teams and interagency protocols.