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.
Relationship is the intervention.
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.
When a survivor gets a Voice & Choice Advocate, they gain a friend. The Advocate’s goal, first and foremost, is to build a trust-based relationship. Advocacy can look like:
Regular face-to-face meetings and outings where Advocates and youth set goals and safety plan
Attending court proceedings and helping prepare victim impact statements
Hosting support groups where youth can interact with peers who have also been impacted by trafficking
Hosting birthday parties, GED/diploma graduation parties, milestone celebrations
Working with the child and family throughout placement and in between placements
Advocating for and recommending specialized services: we have a nationwide network of partners offering specialized residential placement/treatment and/or outpatient therapeutic programs
Educating the caregiver(s) and case workers/probation officers on the effects of child sex trafficking and the intense trauma that the child has endured
Advocates participate in regional multi-disciplinary teams in order to provide wrap-around services and support
Non-Crisis Referrals
The Voice & Choice program serves child sex trafficking victims in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton, and Ellis Counties. For questions about referrals, please email intake@traffick911.com.