Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.

It's a day set aside to raise awareness that this crime often happens in our own backyards by those and against those we least suspect.

Suspect in Madison County, a nonprofit, is working to educate people about human trafficking and provide a safe space for survivors.

How this got started was for me.

My daughter was murdered in February of 22.

I didn't want to live, so I got my prayer closet and I told God, if you're going to make me live, you're going to have to give me something to do for you until I'm allowed to come to heaven.

So it was shortly after that that I got a message from a friend of mine, and he asked me if I'd pray about doing this.

Jordan She was an assistant prosecuting attorney in northern Kentucky at one time, and she was on the human Trafficking Task force.

So I thought, Oh, okay.

That's why this is this is why this is my job for the rest of my life.

I'm dedicated to this.

It's going to be a home for these girls and they have to feel like a home should be like what?

Their home, What they should have been feeling.

You know, sit down and eat together, watch TV together, actually love each other and be kind.

It's just a big foster home is all basically what it is, except we're hoping to be able to keep them until they age out.

It's strictly for girls, 14 to 18.

I'm so high school age because it'll it'll be easier to educate them while they're there because we want in home or in how schooling their trauma therapy there.

They have access to 24 hour therapeutic needs.

We want equine therapy there, a way for them to learn life skills and to continue to heal from the experiences that they've had.

We want to be extremely focused on healing for sexual trauma.

Sexual trauma triggers some of the things in your brain that not necessarily physical trauma does.

And I believe everybody has different experience answers when it comes to that sexual trauma.

So having a psychologist on call and a specific therapist there that can do CBT or any type of therapy that the girls might meet, strictly trauma based therapy, as long as it's trauma based therapy, that's the difference with, I believe, this house and how it's going to be ran.

Each one will be a case by case basis.

So showing them that their needs are important.

They are important as an individual, but also how to integrate with other people to develop that safe community.

Human trafficking looks different.

We have parents or caregivers that are on drugs who are using their children to buy more drugs, who are renting out their children for money, who are renting out their children for food.

And all of that ringing out boils down to trafficking.

People really don't know how bad human trafficking is, especially in Kentucky.

So in 2019, Kentucky ranked number nine in the nation for human trafficking.

That was the federal cases reported.

So the awareness we feel like is really importance.

I would always hear about human trafficking and I'm thankful I don't somebody do something.

But then I have learned we are the somebody, not just me, but you also everybody.

It takes us all.

Every everybody but every Kentuckian needs to step up and try to get that out of here.