{"id":125528,"date":"2026-01-20T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125528\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:52:09","slug":"jacksonville-event-to-raise-awareness-of-human-trafficking-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125528\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville event to raise awareness of human trafficking Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A community event titled &#8220;Stand Up Downtown: Look Closer Speak Louder&#8221; is set to take place this Saturday in Jacksonville, aiming to raise awareness of human trafficking. <\/p>\n<p>The event will feature art, live music, ice skating, interactive activities, and raffles for prizes. Proceeds will benefit the Onslow Victims Center and True Justice. <\/p>\n<p>Meg Dennis, executive director of Onslow Victims Center, said, &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna have a call to action at the end of the day, and we&#8217;re gonna challenge folks to step up and step into the issue, be informed, know what they can do, how to support someone else.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Traci Klein, executive director of True Justice, added, &#8220;The money will go directly to the safe house. We operate a safe house for human trafficking survivors, and so it will help with their trauma recovery and their life skills.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The event is scheduled from noon to 3 p.m. on Court Street in downtown Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A community event titled &#8220;Stand Up Downtown: Look Closer Speak Louder&#8221; is set to take place this Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-125528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}