PAVSA along with community partners are asking the community to join them each week of January to learn more about the effects and stigmas around sexual assault.
Program to Aid Victims of Sexual Assault, or PAVSA, is a nonprofit rape crisis center that helps to aid victims, survivors and second hand survivors of sexual assault. Since opening, the non-profit has been making history for not only Duluth or even Minnesota but nationwide.
Credit Minnesota Indian Women s Sexual Assault Coalition
And since the trading of something of value in exchange for some kind of sexual activity or content, like pictures or video, is the actual
definition of commercial sexual exploitation, it s not surprising people who work to stop sex trafficking are concerned.
Sheila Lamb knows this better than most. She was elected to represent Ward 2 on the Cloquet City Council the same year that MN Student Survey was conducted. And as a woman, and an Indigenous woman at that, she sees a lot of overlap between her work for her constituents, her work with trafficked and at-risk youth at Life House, and her appointment to the MN Governor s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman Task Force.