This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Reflection Ministries is spreading awareness on the dangers of human trafficking.
Teachers, county commissioners and even the district attorney talked about human trafficking on the local level.
Rebecca Bender, who survived and escaped her trafficker back in 2007, spoke at the event.
After escaping her trafficker, she launched Elevate Academy, a school for survivors of human trafficking.
It became a place to teach people how to learn the skills of building a new life.
"I think at the end of the day, living thru a life of human trafficking is hard, but most people can't relate to that. I do think all of us can relate to feeling alone, lied to, feeling embarrassed over [a] decision we've made [and] feeling tricked by someone they trusted," Bender said. "So I think that resiliency, that we can share as survivors of trafficking, [we] can relate to and take something out of it to be able to keep moving forward with whatever hurdles and road blocks and life changes are being thrown at them."
On Wednesday, Reflection Ministries will have their human trafficking summit at the Green Tree Country Club.