TRAFFICK911
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Mission Statement
Traffick911 exists with the sole purpose of freeing youth from sex trafficking by building trust-based relationships. This is accomplished by a 24/7 crisis response and the Voice & Choice Program Team walking alongside child sex trafficking victims and with Multi-Disciplinary Team partners. Traffick911 was founded in 2009 by community activists who discovered that child sex trafficking was happening in North Texas. Over its history, the organization’s abolition efforts include training over 82,000 youth and adults face-to-face with prevention and awareness messages, training over 18,000 first responders, and directly serving over 1,000 survivors. Mission: To free youth from sex trafficking through trust-based relationships. Vision: Communities free from relational brokenness. Values: Hope, Humility, and Humanity
About This Cause
Traffick911 began in 2009 when a handful of community activists realized that child sex trafficking was not only happening in third-world countries but in their communities. Since then, Traffick911’s mission has been focused on one thing: to free youth from sex trafficking. Over its history, the organization’s abolition efforts include forming vital local, state and federal partnerships, training over 82,000 youth and adults face-to-face with an audience-specific prevention and awareness message, training over 18,000 professionals and first responders on identifying victims, and directly serving thousands of survivors. Traffick911 is the only agency providing 24/7 crisis response to law enforcement across all of North Texas: Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Collin, and Ellis Counties. Traffick911’s highly-trained advocates respond to law enforcement when a victim is recovered and go to their location within 60 minutes. In those first crucial moments, Advocates help establish felt safety with a meal and a backpack filled with cozy items, a fuzzy teddy bear, toiletries, and a journal. They then help meet basic needs, implement a safety plan, and ensure the child has a safe place to stay. But that is just the beginning! Advocates work with survivors into adulthood for long-term healing and protection from re-victimization through trauma-informed case management, goal-planning, and connection to safe community relationships. The Voice & Choice program is Traffick911's unique response to child sex trafficking victims, serving nearly 300 youth each year. Having served survivors of child sex trafficking since 2009 and getting to know their different phases of restoration, we have learned the hard way - you can’t force healing on anyone. There’s no three-step program. What’s better is meeting each kid right where they are and empowering them to choose healing for themselves day after day, month after month, year after year. Our experience with thousands of victims has taught us that it was a relational wound (often many) which caused and contributed to victimization, and it will be healthy relational bonds that help victims heal and move from victim to survivor.