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When we founded Safe House Project in 2017, Health & Human Services reported that 300,000 American children were being trafficked in the U.S. each year, but victim identification was at 1%. Tragically, there were less than 100 beds in safe house programs for the approximately 3,000 individuals identified each year.
From that realization, our mission was born: Increase survivor identification through education, provide emergency services to survivors, and ensure every survivor has access to safe housing and holistic care by accelerating safe house capacity.
Combating trafficking through training involves empowering people to spot, report, and prevent trafficking. To date, we have educated over 270,000 people through our on-demand trainings, as well as our in-person trainings.
As a result of educational efforts to increase survivor identification, 480+ survivors received emergency services, including extraction, emergency housing, transportation, and safe house placement. That is 480+ survivors given the opportunity to start their healing journey.
Ultimately, it is aftercare that breaks the cycle of victimization. Due to the significant gaps in survivor services, we have focused on strategically increasing residential capacity. Identifying and responding to the most pressing needs of the survivor community, we have launched 371 new beds through new or expanding safe house partnerships. That is 135,000 safe nights annually provided to trafficking survivors that did not exist before.
Additionally, we are working to elevate the standard of care in the industry through Safe House Certification. The purpose of a certification model is to drive industry standards to improve safe house programming for trafficking survivors based on best practices and evidence-based research of industry leaders, including lived experience experts, program trainers, and service providers. Effective safe house programs provide ethical, safe, therapeutic, well-resourced, and sustainable residential care to survivors to help them break the cycle of victimization.
Through our work, we unite this industry to create a more coordinated response to trafficking, equip people with the education they need to spot, report, and prevent trafficking, and serve survivors to ensure that their story does not end at escape through aftercare programming.
