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Child Sex Trafficking - Support Healing

Trafficking survivors often experience complex trauma and a loss of self-identity as well as serious financial and healthcare issues. These difficulties create barriers to securing safe and stable housing as well as education and employment opportunities.

Complex trauma takes a lifetime of healing. A survivor's healing from complex trauma can be interrupted by events which may cause trauma responses. These trauma responses can be destabilizing for survivors and derail their progress. With support, these responses can also present an opportunity to re-engage in healing and recovery. 

It takes time because you have been deeply defined by someone with power and control over you — you feel powerless.

CST survivor

CSTT has several strategies to shift the focus from surviving to thriving, including:

  • Equipping all stakeholders to provide victim-centered, trauma informed responses and ongoing services;
  • Building capacity within child welfare and juvenile justice systems to serve victims;
  • Developing, supporting, and increasing capacity within community-based services for victims;
  • CSEY Advocacy;
  • Care Coordination.

Resources

Programs Supported by Grants from the Office of the Governor

Long-Term Residential Programs

Residential treatment programs that provide survivors with trauma-responsive case management, wraparound services, and 24-hour clinical and behavioral crisis services.

Drop-In Centers

These programs provide immediate needs, including safety planning, crisis counseling, and opportunities for engagement in services for youth who are likely victims of sex trafficking.

Community-Based Services for Youth

Community Case Management and Counseling Programs for Adults