Len Reynolds, President
Stop the Traffick Indiana
August 4th, 2026. Program Chairman Daniel Granquist introduced today’s speaker, Len Reynolds, President, Stop the Traffick. Len, along with Mike Velasco and Will Rogers, delivered several surprising statistics regarding human trafficking. The average life expectancy of a person after being victimized by human trafficking, is just 7 years. Many are murdered or commit suicide. Today one-third of the people who are being trafficked, are children. Len cited that there an estimated 456,000 missing children. Most of these children were from previous border policies. Currently 146,000 of these children have been rescued. Locally, Lake County has reported 164 missing people, with 84 from Gary. 72% of these missing people are under the age of 21. LaPorte County has 21 missing people, with 13 of them from Michigan City. Six of the twenty-one missing people from LaPorte County are under 21 years old. Human trafficking is not just in large cities, it is here in our area. IF YOU SUSPECT SOME ONE IS TRAFFICKING OR BEING TRAFFICKED, contact this Toll-Free Phone Number: 1-800-U-TELL-US. HELP WILL BE PROVIDED!
Thank you Len Reynolds, Mike Velasco and Will Rogers for the help you give to those in serious need!
See: stopthetraffickindiana.org for information on how YOU can help.
Family Advocates
Kristy Hahn, Community Outreach Coordinator, identified four goals that Family Advocate promotes:
1. Help abused and neglected children. Family Advocates provides opportunities where the child and the parent can have organized supervised visits in a homelike setting.
2. Harmony House provides parenting classes for parents who need to develop or improve parenting skills.
3. Mentorship Programs for at-risk youth. These programs help teach pre-teens how to make good life decisions. Many times, these classes teach life skills.
4. Slicer Champions. This program has older kids being mentors for kids that are in middle school or younger. These are kids that are not necessarily troubled kids, but kids that are looking for guidance from a young mentor.
Anthony Adams House
Michigan City Exchange Club presents Candice Adams (center} a check for $500.00. Board member Dan Granquist is left. President Tom Walma is right.
The mission of Anthony Adams House is to provide a safe, home-like, caring environment for vulnerable at-risk youth to enable them to unlock their potential and learn skills that will empower them to transition safely to adulthood and build healthier productive lives and ensure great successful futures.
The Share Group, Help for Human Trafficking Victims
Dan Grandquist, Board Member
Dan informed Exchange Club members of The Share Groups efforts to provide resources, training, educational opportunities and most of all Hope, for victims of human trafficking in NW Indiana. Hundreds of men, women and children are now being forced into human slavery in this area. The Share Group is in the process of establishing a home for survivors.
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