In 2020, eight school districts across the U.S. received a total of $4.3 million in federal grants to create and implement human trafficking prevention programs. Oakland Unified was one of them .

OUSD receives half a million dollars a year from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide human trafficking prevention education to students and staff in middle and high schools. Teams of community school managers , therapists, and other staff trained to respond and intervene in cases of commercial sexual exploitation and labor trafficking are at each middle and high school campus.

Amba Johnson, a former welfare worker for foster youth and a longtime advocate for sexually exploited youth, is OUSD’s grant manager for its human trafficking prevention & response program.

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