IOFA, the International Association for Adolescents, is dedicated to improving the lives of young people by addressing critical and emerging issues affecting vulnerable adolescents around the world. Curently, IOFA is focused on empowering orphan youth and preventing child trafficking.
IOFA's Executive Director, Katherine Kaufka, introduces a new program to address child trafficking. While thousands of foreign born and US citizen children are victims of human trafficking each year, only a few hundred child trafficking victims have been identified in the US. "Building Child Welfare Response to Child Trafficking" is an innovative program created by IOFA to combat child trafficking in Illinois with a key "first responder" - the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services ...