Operation Underground Railroad

O.U.R. Team

Tim Ballard

Founder and CEO

Jonathan Lines

President of Operations

Jessica Mass

Director of Aftercare

Jen Dyer

Director of Development

Teyva Ware

Chief Financial Officer

Matt Osborne

Special Projects Coordinator

(Operation Underground Railroad, n.d.-c)

"Home Turf" Case

Totals:

2,078 Rescued Since the founding.

1,173 Slave Owners Arrested.

(Operation Underground Railroad, n.d.-a)

Do they do anything else?

• O.U.R. provides training and resources to law enforcement agencies worldwide to stop the spread of slave trafficking. The training has proved effective and the resources are long lasting. This can include an O.U.R. ambassador in certain agencies, helping to form policies, and even legal help to put the perpetrator behind bars.

• O.U.R. is also active in the United States

government, where they push for certain bills

and programs that would aid them in their

pursuit of getting rid of slave trafficking for

good.

(Operation Underground Railroad, n.d.-b)

(Ballard, 2019)

Victim Resources & Are they legit?

• Their victim resources are limited, as the people they are rescuing often do not have the ability to reach out to anyone in the outside world.
• They do, however, have a list of ways to contact them via phone call, e-mail, mail, and a "Send Us a Message!" section.
• The group also provides the telephone number for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Hotline, which is the government agency assigned to dealing with those things. Because the O.U.R. is a volunteer, non-government agency, they cannot take on cases by themselves.

• The group is as legitimate as it gets. On the website itself, they provide all the donations funding records and records of every case they have ever handled.

(Operation Underground Railroad, n.d.-a)

Reference Page

Ballard, T. (2018, June 16). Tim Ballard: How an Operation Underground Railroad Mission Completed My Family. Time Out for Women. Retrieved from https://www.tofw.com/blogs/tim-ballard-how-an-operation-underground-railroad-mission-completed-my-family

Ballard, T. (2019, February 04). Tim Ballard: I've fought sex trafficking at the border. This is why we need a wall. Retrieved from https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900053896/tim-ballard-ive-fought-sex-trafficking-at-the-border-this-is-why-we-need-a-wall-border-wall-fox-news-child-trafficking.html

Ohio History Central. (n.d.). Levi Coffin. Retrieved from http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Levi_Coffin

Operation Underground Railroad. (n.d.-a). Retrieved from https://ourrescue.org/

Operation Underground Railroad. (n.d.-b). The Process. Retrieved from https://ourrescue.org/about#process

Operation Underground Railroad. (n.d.-c). The Team. Retrieved from https://ourrescue.org/about#team

Operation Underground Railroad. (n.d.-d). We Want to Hear from You. Retrieved from https://ourrescue.org/contact

Operation Underground Railroad. (n.d.-e). Why the Underground Railroad. Retrieved from https://ourrescue.org/about#ugr