Mid-Plains Community College

McCook Community College and North Platte Community College hosted presentations to staff Thursday to discuss the issue of human trafficking and help raise awareness about its prevalence in area communities.

Stacey Cahill of “Traffic Stop-Voices Against Human Trafficking” and co-founder Lisa Moline provided insights into the various forms of human trafficking and methods for combating this crime.

This non-profit travels from community to community offering a free informative and interactive presentation with awareness skills.

It all started with a book.

“When people have many adverse child experiences (ACE Score) such as sexual, physical, and emotional abuse combined with abandonment, shame, ridicule, and tragic suffering often we are unequipped to know/sense or see red flags. These traumas make it difficult to know that we can stop or walk away from new traumatic experiences. Because our normal is tragic suffering and dysfunction, we do not know how to keep ourselves safe. Our negative experiences are higher than those who have a lower ACE score, even in adulthood. Therefore, we are flash-flooded with ‘messed-up’ experiences throughout our lifetime (it is as if our security system was not installed). Our PTSD responses compound and grow. We explain this for you to understand why we are jumping and bouncing all around in this novel. It is because of Marley’s trauma and her high ACE score. Finding a way to express this phenomenon happened after years of processing, writing, and editing this novel side by side.”

With Love, 

Stacey Cahill and Lisa Molina

Traffic Stop: Human Division a novel by Stacey L Cahill

It has been a Joy Ride (also the title of Chapter 1) of the the novel Traffic Stop: Human Division by Stacey L Cahill, that is not over! https://scahilllinebywine.org.  I am blessed to offer creativity and consultation to such a massive topic. I’m thankful to Tankashula (God) for the opportunity join in the efforts to Advocate against Human Trafficking. And to add my voice and suffering to Missing & Murdered Indigenous People a call for justice.

Readers can order the book at https://scahilllinebywine.org/