Specialist areas of work and services:
- Adult Entertainment
- Armed Conflict & Military
- Begging
- Debt Bondage
- Forced Criminality
- Forced Labour
- Forced Marriage
- General
- Nail Bars
- Organ Trafficking
- Other
- Peddling Ring
- Prostitution & Sex Slavery
- Sale of Children
- Sex Trafficking
Description:
Founded in 2001, ITEMP.org prevents, detects, recovers, and rehabilitates HT victims, and provides prosecution assistance against offenders.
Experience, Background and Services:
ITEMP.org was founded by Patrick Atkinson in 2001 as the anti-human trafficking sub-program of the worldwide non-denominational, non-political GOD'S CHILD Project (www.GodsChild.org), which was founded in 1991. ITEMP has worked through pre-established networks in 38 different nations to locate and return home missing children and women.
ITEMP's founder Patrick Atkinson is a frequent expert court witness on matters related to international human trafficking, organized crime, and forced immigration issues.
In Central America on an ongoing basis, and other places on request, ITEMP provides: (a) public education human trafficking awareness and prevention presentations, (b) training to nonprofit and government entities, (c) HT detection, (d) HT preliminary investigation, (e) HT victim interdiction and rescue support, (f) rehabilitative services, (g) prosecutorial assist, and (h) community development for common law, zoning, public safety campaigns, etc.
In the United States on an ongoing basis, ITEMP.org provides these same services, with the exception of (e) victim interdiction and rescue, viewing this as exclusively a law enforcement matter.
ITEMP Founder and Executive Director Patrick Atkinson is a 38-year veteran of working with missing and exploited children and women. He is a published author with 6 books in worldwide distribution, an accomplished speaker in high demand, and a frequent expert court witness in matters related to international human trafficking, organized crime and street gang activity, and domestic violence. (AtkinsonCenter.org)