The Renewal Forum's mission is to enhance the respect and realization of human dignity in public policies at federal, state and local levels of government. We actively pursue research and analysis projects, and disseminate findings, best practices, and effective techniques for raising public education and awareness.
The Renewal Forum, Inc., is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation founded in 2006 to undertake programs of policy research and advocacy to promote respect for human dignity.
Based on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, the principals of the Forum include several leading national experts on human trafficking. Steven Wagner ran the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Human Trafficking Program for three years and implemented its Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking public awareness campaign. Rodger Hunter-Hall, who served as Deputy Director of the HHS program.
The initial focus of the Renewal Forum is on the phenomenon of human trafficking – particularly the trafficking of juveniles – here in the United States. This is so because:
1) human trafficking is beyond argument the greatest systematic affront to human dignity being perpetrated in the United States today;
2) it is an area of public policy in which the principals of the Renewal Forum have, collectively, unrivalled expertise.
