The Dock Ellis Foundation

Empowering minority victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and families of missing persons.

Sex Trafficking & Domestic Violence Assistance

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MISSION

At The Dock Ellis Foundation, our mission is to empower minority victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and families of missing persons through education, awareness and access to services. We also work to end modern day slavery by partnering with major league sports, celebrities, and other influencers to raise awareness and funds to support our work.

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​VISION

We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to bring their loved one home. 

​The FBI’s National Crime Information Center Missing Person and Unidentified Person database indicates that over the course of last year, there were 89,020 Black women and girls of all ages recorded as missing persons. At the end of 2021 there were 14,323 active missing cases involving Black females out of the 93,718 open files. And at least 119,519 of the missing were “juvenile” Black girls and boys.

So why don’t we know their names?

Black women face a particularly high risk of being killed at the hands of a man. According to the FBI, at least four Black women were murdered per day in 2020. That staggering number is probably an undercount, as crimes against Black women go underreported. When it comes to human trafficking, Black women are at increased risk here as well. As outlined in the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation report on human trafficking, in a two-year study of human trafficking incidents across the country. Black women, girls, and gender nonconforming people are disproportionately represented as victims/survivors of trafficking. Black women make up 40% of people who have survived sex trafficking. Black youth comprise 51% of all prostitution arrests for those under age 18—more than any other racial group.

We provide opportunities, resources and advocacy to minority communities to improve the lives of the poorly served, underserved, never served and those traumatized by the atrocities of sex trafficking, missing person and Domestic violence.

THE DATA WILL SHOW THAT:
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

 40% of sex trafficking victims were identified as Black women.

 According to the FBI, 57.5% of all juvenile prostitution arrests are Black children.
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PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

​More than four in ten Black women experience physical violence from an intimate partner during their lifetimes. White women, Latinas, and Asian/Pacific Islander women report lower rates.

PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE

Black women also experience significantly higher rates of psychological abuse—including humiliation, insults, name-calling, and coercive control—than do women overall.
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Sexual violence affects Black women at high rates. More than 20 percent of Black women are raped during their lifetimes—a higher share than among women overall.
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HOMICIDE
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Black women face a particularly high risk of being killed at the hands of a man. A 2015 Violence Policy Center study finds that Black women were two and a half times more likely to be murdered by men than their White counterparts. More than nine in ten Black female victims knew their killers.
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MISSING PERSON

NEARLY 40 PERCENT OF MISSING PERSONS ARE PERSONS OF COLOR, YET, AFRICAN-AMERICANS MAKE UP ONLY 13 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION. 



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