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is a program where both parents and girls attend counseling for a year. It led to a marked decrease in detentions, according to a 2011 evaluation. A related program, Project
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provides gender specific services for young women charged with crimes. These specific services are away from male offenders. The services offered vary by location from health and wellbeing, relationships, education and training, and other programs like cooking and following the law. Australia
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addict, "sold" her daughter to an uncle who sexually exploited her in exchange for drugs. The county's H.E.A.T. Watch unit, started by the district attorney in 2006, targets people who traffic in women: as of 2013, 111 exploiters of children under 18 had been convicted. Most girls attend
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Trafficking Intervention Courts for those 16 years and up. New York State's Safe Harbor law, the country's first, classifies trafficked minors through age 17 as needing supervision rather than probation.
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