Survivor Mentorship & Support
our mission
Ending the Cycle of Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking
Child trafficking and sexual exploitation are real, and we need your help to stop them. Safe Passage walks alongside youth who’ve been impacted by sexual grooming, exploitation, or trafficking. We are dedicated to helping victims escape their abusive environments, sustain freedom, and believe in a hopeful life ahead. We use a holistic and victim-centered approach to support victims through mentorship, which has been proven as an effective method to promote healing in exploited youth. Mentorship is a restorative relationship that encourages growth and healing, builds protective factors, fosters resiliency, and develops a positive and encouraging support system to end victimization for good.
Healing & Hope for Survivors
Safe Passage provides empowering mentorship and support services to youth who've been impacted by sexual grooming, exploitation, or trafficking. Our mission is to help youth recognize their inherent value and resist the tactics of exploiters who give empty promises of love and a future. Through case management, safety planning, intervention, advocacy, equine assisted services, and mentorship, we help youth overcome adversity and step into a hope-filled life outside of exploitation.
Youth we've helped:
- Victims of online sexual grooming
- Victims coerced or forced to produce Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
- Runaway youth who have an emotional bond with an unsafe person
- Victims of sex or labor trafficking
- Youth who want to perform sex acts or produce sexual footage for drugs, alcohol, or money
- At-risk youth with signs of risky behavior (i.e. running away, talking to strangers online, sexting, sex addiction, etc.)
Healing & Hope for Families of Survivors
Trafficking-related trauma is complex and comes with many unique challenges for the survivor but also for family members. This can leave caretakers feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. As these caretakers support their kids, they need to support themselves. Our parent check-ins provide support, encouragement, and valuable training on trafficking trauma, recovery, and behaviors. Our goal is to help families partner with their children through the healing process and to achieve a resilient and hopeful future. No story or healing journey is ever the same, but you deserve resources to help you along the way.
If you're an adult caring for a youth who's experienced trafficking or sexual exploitation, we're here to help. This includes biological parents, guardians, and foster parents.
Our Services
Equine Assisted Services
Equine therapy is a unique way for survivors to learn, grow, and find healing.
Survivor Mentorship
Mentorship is one of the most effective ways to support survivors.
Advocacy
We advocate for each survivor's needs based on their situation.
Safety Planning
We help develop a plan to keep every survivor away from abusers and out of harm's way.
Recreational Outing
We love to have fun! Taking our teens on outings and retreats keeps them feeling hopeful.
Trafficking Intervention
No child should be trafficked or sexually exploited, we intervene on their behalf.
Emotional Support
We use trauma-informed strategies to support survivors and help them heal.
GET INVOLVED
Become a Mentor
Mentorship is our biggest need for continued healing and support for survivors. Help us empower survivors who have experienced sexual grooming, exploitation, and trafficking. Walk alongside these vulnerable populations and help them discover new dreams, finish school, learn to trust people, build their self-worth, and more. No survivor should have to walk alone, apply to be a mentor today.
Go to
mentoring.org to learn more about the power of mentorship.
HELP IS AVAILABLE
Refer a Youth
Contact Us
You may also call or text us
at 502-324-3013
If this is an emergency, please call 911. If you need to report suspected child abuse, neglect, or trafficking, please do so immediately:
(877) 597-2331 / (877) KYSAFE1 (800) 752-6200. For non-emergencies, you may also
Report Online.
