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    • May 15
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    Celebrating Every Step

     

    Healing isn't linear, it is a journey--a complicated amalgamation of memories, emotions, people, and spaces. I know some days you feel like all you can do is stand, but I want to celebrate all the ways you are healing and becoming an incredible force for change.

     

    Over the past few years, you have pushed against the thoughts in your mind that tell you you are not enough, the lies that were bred into you by your trafficker, and the mental barriers that kept you feel confined to the world they built up around you.

     

    But with every passing year, month, day, moment you are choosing to renew your mind, to create new memories that fill you with joy, and build relationships with people who show you unconditional love and respect.

     

    Healing is hard, healing takes time, but we are here to celebrate who you are today and all you will become.

     

    We love you.

     
     
     

    The Problem

    Sex trafficking is the commercial sexual exploitation of an individual through force, fraud, or coercion. Any time a child is used for commercial sex, including prostitution or pornography, it is considered sex trafficking, regardless of whether there is evidence of force, fraud, or coercion.

    • Hundreds of thousands of individuals are trafficked every year in the United States.
    • 40% of trafficked children are sold by a family member
    • 99% are never identified.
    • Of the 1% who are identified, few receive care.
    • 80% of survivors end up being re-victimized if they do not have a safe place to go.

     

    Why Safe House programs matter - a safe place to heal

    "It's more than a house, it is a home."

    "It’s our way of finding our own purpose."

    "It’s our way of being able to have time to process who we are."

    It's our way of finding freedom, peace, love, and most of all dignity."

    - Kady

     

    Our Mission

    Safe House Project’s mission is to increase survivor identification beyond one percent through education, provide emergency services and placement to survivors, and ensure every survivor has access to safe housing and holistic care by accelerating safe house capacity and development across America.

     

    Our vision is to unite communities to end domestic sex trafficking and restore hope, freedom, and a future to every survivor.