Category: News

By Emily Waters, Operations Coordinator On March 23rd, I had the pleasure of accompanying a group of anti-trafficking advocates from several organizations on a bus trip to Albany that was…

March 2015 marks the third anniversary of the opening of LifeWay House, our long-term transitional safe house for women survivors of human trafficking. In the three years since opening its…

On January 8, 2015, during the observance of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month, WAMC Northeast Public Radio aired a segment about human trafficking that included interviews with two women…

  By Lima James, Coordinator of Education & Training Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery and a crime against humanity. This often hidden crime was estimated to be…

New York’s New Abolitionists are a new generation of abolitionists who are committed to ending human trafficking in the 21st Century. The 2014-2015 group was introduced in an exhibition of…

Aspire Partnership, a collaboration of LifeWay House and Covenant House New York, has received an anonymous grant of $1 million over 3 years to establish Aspire Home, a safe house…

The October issue of the Stop Trafficking Newsletter highlights issues around providing assistance to human trafficking survivors for their healing journey. A section of the newsletter on Finding a Place…

Sr. Joan Dawber, SC, LifeWay Network’s founder and executive director, received the Caritas Medal at St. John’s University’s Vincentian Convocation on September 25, 2014. The Caritas Medal celebrates Sr. Joan’s…

  Sr. Joan Dawber, Executive Director of LifeWay Network, is one of the ten nuns profiled in the recently released book ‘If Nuns Ruled The World’ by Jo Piazza. Piazza…

  One of the partners LifeWay Network works with to combat human trafficking is our local Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office. This summer, the HSI team received a plaque from…