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Oct 13, 2026
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The Set Me Free Project, based in Omaha, Nebraska, writes and teaches human trafficking prevention education for students from kindergarten to grade 12, their parents and teachers, and workplaces.
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The Set Me Free Project is a nonprofit in Omaha, Nebraska. Its mission fits on the banner it brings to events, and it is specific about timing:
To stop human trafficking before it starts by providing prevention education to all ages.
Its CEO, Stephanie Olson, co-founded the organization after training in human trafficking prevention education and social media safety. Her biography says she had worked with women experiencing sexual and domestic violence, addiction and homelessness.
The core of the work is the READY to Stand Curriculum®. Its mission page describes age-appropriate programming for students from kindergarten to grade 12, and for educators, parents and community leaders. The presentations explain what human trafficking is and help people recognize the risks that come before it.
The organization calls the curriculum trauma-informed and survivor-led. Its website lists versions for schools, healthcare, businesses and community groups, and a self-guided digital toolkit, open at any hour, with one path for young people and one for survivors.
The second program hands the teaching to students. Chapters of Students Against Trafficking educate their peers, promote healthy relationships and lead prevention projects in their schools and communities. The organization’s stated five-year goal is 100 college chapters and 5,000 student leaders.
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Sign InOne record from April 2026 shows a chapter at work at Creighton University: its students interviewing other students on campus about human trafficking.
Most of the records it publishes are events, which is how prevention education reaches adults who are not in a classroom. They include:
the Nebraska Human Trafficking Task Force Summit, September 2024
a youth safety day with the Papillion Fire Department, June 2025
Turning the Capital Blue, January 11, 2026
Dinner and Dialogue, an evening with Lily Haven, February 2026
a music trivia night with the Women’s Council of Realtors, April 2026
June Jam, June 2026
January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the United States. The organization’s photographs from that day show speakers outdoors in winter coats.
The Set Me Free Project reports its figures through Nexus Impacts. In mid-September 2026 it reported 1,993 people trained, counting training given directly, through partner organizations and through student chapters. It also reported seven collaborative partners, which it defines as schools, organizations, businesses, groups or individuals actively using its programs.
These are its own counts, and 4Planet does not audit them. The READY to Stand Curriculum page shows current figures with their source.
Two of the UN’s targets name trafficking outright. Target 16.2 reads: "End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children." Target 8.7 asks countries to "end modern slavery and human trafficking."
Its missions on 4Planet are tagged to Good Health and Well-being, Quality Education, Decent Work and Economic Growth and Partnerships for the Goals.
The Set Me Free Project was listed on 4Planet on August 29, 2026, as a Community Listed organization, with three missions: the READY to Stand Curriculum, Students Against Trafficking, and the digital toolkit for young people and survivors.
Donations go to it directly, through its page or at setmefreeproject.net.
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