TODAY'S PROGRAM: Love Never Fails - Understanding and Preventing Human Trafficking
Madison Barton, representing the nonprofit organization Love Never Fails, provided us with a better understanding of human trafficking, along with ways to interrupt the cycle and prevent this violation of human rights. Founded in 2010 by Vanessa Russell, the organization has the following mission:
- Love Never Fails empowers all people to express and experience our best sense of humanity. We do this by restoring, educating, and protecting survivors of human trafficking and their community.
Love Never Fails offers a wrap-around service model that partners with many organizations including local governments and other nonprofits to find, house, educate and support victims of human trafficking, while also advocating at the State and Federal levels to enact laws that lead to prevention of human trafficking.
With the Super Bowl coming to the Bay Area in February, Love Never Fails is actively engaged with the Super Bowl Committee, city officials, local hotel and restaurant owners, Uber, and Lyft to educate the community on the signs of human trafficking.
Weekly, trained volunteers with Love Never Fails are in Dublin and Livermore to identify and provide resources to people who may be involved in human trafficking. Madison shared that many victims are not completely aware that they are being victimized, so the process in identifying and helping them with recovery can be slow. In 2025, Love Never Fails recovered 20 people in the Bay Area who were being trafficked; 14 of those were under the age of 18.
In addition to direct outreach and recovery, Love Never Fails sponsors the ITbiz tech academy. In partnership with Cisco, Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Agile, the program trains students for internships, apprenticeships, and IT industry placement. In 2024, the ITbiz tech academy graduated 187 people; in 2025 there were 332 graduates.
