Youth on Transportation Safety Month

TAT’s Youth on Transportation Safety Month will unite transportation stakeholders to leverage their unique position in communities across North America for a campaign dedicated to educating youth about human trafficking in age-appropriate ways and equipping them with tools to protect themselves and their peers from exploitation. The month will spotlight the year-round goals of TAT’s Youth on Transportation Initiative, which was recently awarded the USDOT’s Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award for 2024.

Survivors of trafficking have shared a wide variety of ways that their victimization intersected with passenger transportation, including transit, motorcoach, school transportation, taxis and rideshares, etc. Furthermore, because of the direct correlations between factors that increase vulnerabilities to human trafficking and other systemic issues of racism and poverty, community transportation providers are regularly interacting with more at-risk individuals by virtue of the population demographics that are most dependent on their services.

Click here for an overview of TAT’s youth-focused resources.

• Display TAT’s youth-focused poster designs on buses, at bus stops/stations, in cabs/limos, at truck stops/rest areas.
• Show TAT’s 1-minute videos for youth and parents on digital displays, websites, apps, etc.
• Put TAT’s stickers on buses, bulletin boards, etc.
• Distribute TAT’s stickers and postcards to youth.
• Post on social media throughout the month. (TAT will provide graphics and sample posts.)
• Train your employees with TAT’s training materials or share TAT’s free online learning portal and/or app with them throughout the month.
• Sponsor and/or support Youth on Transportation Safety Month activities in your community.