{"id":206929,"date":"2026-06-02T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/?p=206929"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:11:50","slug":"creating-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/2026\/06\/02\/creating-for-a-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating for a Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials including Assemblyman Sterley Stanley (D-18), special guests and representatives from the New York\/New Jersey FIFA Host Committee were on hand for a special evening event May 13 honoring the winners of the Kids4Freedom Safety Challenge \u201926, a state-wide competition to raise awareness of human trafficking ahead of this summer\u2019s 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/\">Global Center on Human Trafficking at Montclair State University<\/a>\u00a0and the non-profit organization\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connectforfreedom.org\/\">Connect For Freedom<\/a>, the Challenge invited New Jersey schools and youth organizations to create impactful awareness campaigns, art posters and creative writing to educate young people about human trafficking prevention. The 2026 World Cup, which begins June 11, will take place throughout North America with games being held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"\/newscenter\/2026\/05\/22\/creating-for-a-cause\/\">Read the Full Article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-12 student winners and Montclair State University students honored at event to raise human trafficking awareness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-recognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206931,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206929\/revisions\/206931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}