According to the U.S. Department of Education, the children at risk are not just high school students - pimps and traffickers are known to prey on victims as young as 9. Traffickers may target minor victims through social media websites, telephone chat-lines, after-school programs, at shopping malls, and bus depots, in clubs, or through friends or acquaintances who recruit students. The National Center for Missing and Exploited children estimates 1 out of 6 runaways end up in human trafficking. According to TBI, we have 600-900 runaways in Tennessee each month, making the state average of 125 children being trafficked each month and over 1,500 per year in our own backyard.