Wanting to help trafficking survivors is easy. Knowing exactly what to do is harder. This guide breaks down ten concrete, practical actions that individuals, churches, and businesses across the Denver metro area can take, ranked from lowest to highest commitment.

Low-Commitment Actions Anyone Can Take

You don’t need special training to start making a difference. These first steps take minutes, not months.

• Save the National Human Trafficking Hotline (1-888-373-7888) and Colorado’s hotline ((866) 455-5075) in your phone right now.
• Learn the real warning signs of coercion and control so you can recognize them in your own community.
• Post discreet help resources — a hotline number and a safe email — in restrooms or common areas at your workplace or church.
• Share verified, accurate information about trafficking on social media instead of sensationalized myths.
• Make a one-time or recurring donation to a Denver-based survivor support organization like Re-fined.

Medium-Commitment Actions for Deeper Involvement

If you have some time each month, these actions create more direct impact for survivors in the Denver metro community.

• Organize a basic training session for greeters, group leaders, or staff on how to notice and respond to signs of exploitation.
• Volunteer with a local partner organization providing practical support such as rides to appointments or court, or childcare during key meetings.
• Host a fundraiser or awareness event tied to Human Trafficking Awareness Month or a local nonprofit’s annual campaign.
• Invite churches or community groups in your network to become partners in restorative, relationship-based survivor support.

Bring Re-fined’s SE101 Training to Your Community

One of the most effective medium-commitment steps available is Re-fined’s SE101 training, a virtual session offered each month that walks participants through the realities of sexual exploitation in Colorado and how children specifically are being targeted. It is designed for individuals, churches, schools, and workplaces that want a foundational understanding before getting more deeply involved.

There are three easy ways to plug into this training right now:

• Join a virtual SE101 training session, held monthly and open to individuals across the Denver metro area.
• Bring a Re-fined training directly to your organization, church, school, or workplace for a customized session.
• Host a free, one-hour community awareness night where Re-fined will come and speak about the realities of sexual exploitation in Colorado and how local children are being targeted.

High-Commitment Ways to Get Involved

For those ready for a sustained commitment, mentorship and long-term relational support are where the deepest impact happens.

• Become a trained volunteer mentor who walks alongside a survivor during the critical phases of their healing journey.
• Join a nonprofit’s volunteer committee structure — such as marketing, fundraising, or program support — to help scale survivor services region-wide.

Why Relational Support Matters Most

Crisis response gets survivors to safety, but long-term healing requires something crisis shelters alone can’t provide: consistent, trustworthy relationships over time. This is the specific gap Re-fined was created to fill in the Denver metro area — nurturing survivors to wholeness through restorative, Christ-centered relationships during the fragile early phases of recovery and beyond.

Whatever level of involvement fits your life right now, the most important step is simply starting. Denver’s trafficking numbers continue climbing, but so does the community’s capacity to respond when people know exactly how to help.

References

1. Re-fined, “About,” re-fined.org.
2. Re-fined, “Domestic Violence Awareness Month: A How-To Guide,” re-fined.org.
3. National Human Trafficking Hotline, “Colorado,” humantraffickinghotline.org.
4. Women’s Directory, “Colorado’s Human Trafficking Hotline,” womensdirectory.org.
5. Common Sense Institute Colorado, “Human Trafficking in Colorado: 2025 Update,” February 2026, commonsenseinstituteus.org.
6. Re-fined, “Training,” re-fined.org/training/.