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Fargo‑Moorhead crisis center urges earlier, trauma‑informed school prevention; warns against late‑only trafficking education
Summary
Christopher Johnson of the Fargo‑Moorhead crisis center described free victim services and the Red Flag/Green Flag school curricula used across grades, and urged the committee to adopt upstream prevention for younger children rather than focusing only on human‑trafficking modules for older grades.
Christopher Johnson, chief executive of the Fargo‑Moorhead crisis center, told the Protection and Vict Services Committee that his agency expanded prevention education after pandemic shifts and is preparing a major program expansion in 2026. He described a comprehensive mix of services—24‑hour crisis line, advocacy, free counseling, supervised parenting‑time and offender programs—and presented service counts and trends from his center.
Johnson and prevention‑education supervisor Kirsten Baltasor described the Red Flag/Green Flag curricula, which the presenters said reached 58 schools in the last year and includes…
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