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LEARN.
AVOID RISK.
GET HELP.
TAKE ACTION.
AVOID RISK:
Identify and avoid risky situations
| If someone asks you or pressures you to have sex with them or with someone else in exchange for money, gifts or protection. |
| If someone asks you or pressures you to have sex with them or with someone else in exchange for money, gifts or protection. |
| If someone offers you money, clothes or gifts in exchange for photos, kisses or anything sex related. |
| If you feel trapped or unable to get out of your current situation. |
| If someone invites you to “parties” where there are only adults who you don’t know and they want to touch you or do sexual things with you. |
| If someone offers you a “job” that seems too good to be true – high salary, few working hours, etc. |
| If someone invites you to spend time with men – for example, at parties. |
| If you are in a work place and your employer takes away your identification documents. |
| If there is a job offer, especially at a restaurant or bar, and you also have to live there. |
| If someone offers you a job where you have to model in bathing suits or underwear. |
| When someone forces you to do sexual things and tells you that you can’t tell anyone else. |
| A job, situation or relationship where they limit your freedom or contact with your friends or family. |
| If someone offers to buy or give you something, but you have to pay back the debt by working or having sex. |
| If someone is involved in criminal activities (selling drugs, for example), and they ask you to help them. |
| If someone tells you to bring other teenagers that you know to parties with adult men to “entertain” them. |
| If someone threatens you if you don’t do as they say, like work for them or have sex with them or other people for money or other gifts. |
| If someone asks you to start dressing more provocatively to go to parties or out in public to attract attention and engage in sex acts. |
| If a friend (or anyone) asks you if you want a quick way to make money like ‘dating’ adult men. |
| If you start to miss school because you’re going to parties or activities during school hours. |
| If someone invites you to a party where you see a lot of other girls and boys your age with older men. |
| If someone invites you to a place where there is an excessive amount of security cameras or other security measures and you are not free to leave. |