Let’s end human trafficking in Colorado
Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking
This moment calls for more than awareness. It calls for action.
Human trafficking and exploitation are commanding public attention and raising urgent questions. LCHT has worked alongside survivors and communities for more than 20 years to change the systems that allow exploitation to persist.
Your year-end gift helps turn this moment of increased attention into meaningful, lasting change.
Human trafficking is a human rights abuse happening right here in Colorado.
Human trafficking is a severe form of exploitation involving force, fraud, or coercion for labor or sex. At the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (LCHT), we work alongside communities across Colorado to prevent exploitation, strengthen responses, and connect survivors with support.
Hotline calls and texts received since 2018
Active anti-trafficking volunteers
People trained on human trafficking
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2025 Gratitude Report
In a year of real uncertainty, LCHT’s community of support ensured that survivors across Colorado could still reach a trained advocate, that professionals received the training they needed, and that the next generation of human rights leaders kept growing.
This report is a reflection of the impact that generosity made possible in 2025.
Why Awareness Alone Won’t End Human Trafficking
Human trafficking has been in the headlines this year. But awareness and outrage alone don’t create change. Real change requires more than public attention. On November 10, we’ll launch our Meet the Moment giving campaign, inviting you to build on more than two decades of progress.
Why Awareness Alone Won’t End Human Trafficking
Human trafficking has been in the headlines this year. But awareness and outrage alone don’t create change. Real change requires more than public attention. On November 10, we’ll launch our Meet the Moment giving campaign, inviting you to build on more than two decades of progress.
Your support helps end human trafficking.
Together we can end exploitation.
Since 2005, the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (LCHT) has been a leader in the movement to end human trafficking in Colorado.
We lead statewide training, conduct community-based research, operate Colorado’s 24/7 Human Trafficking Hotline, and develop future human rights leaders.
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What’s Shaping Anti-Trafficking Today
Proposition 133: What Colorado Voters Should Know About Human Trafficking & Mandatory Life Sentences
On Election Day, Colorado voters will consider Proposition 133, a ballot initiative that would increase penalties for child sex trafficking. A coalition of victim advocates, survivor leaders, and anti-trafficking organizations opposes the measure, warning that survivors could face life in prison for crimes they were forced to commit.
How Much Does Human Trafficking Actually Happen in Colorado?
How common is human trafficking in Colorado? This is one of the hardest, most complicated questions to answer.
What Is the Troubled Teen Industry and How Does It Relate to Human Trafficking?
In recent years, survivors, journalists, attorneys, and policymakers have been raising serious concerns about abuse and exploitation within the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI). In some cases, they argue that what happened to young people may have met the legal definition of labor trafficking.
