An essential first step to lasting freedom for a child rescued from commercial sexual exploitation is to loosen the mental chains that keep her enslaved. But trained mental health and trauma care resources are exceedingly rare and tremendously expensive and represent the number one gap facing those working to combat and disrupt this horrific industry.
EmancipAction is working to develop the first evidence-based, scalable approach to psycho-social care for children rescued from sex trafficking. Effective trauma care will both dramatically reduce re-trafficking rates and also serve to disrupt the world's second most profitable business with increased convictions for traffickers.
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HOW WE WORK
Innovate
We are working to establish an evidence-based, effective and scalable approach to mental health and trauma care, working with the world’s best minds, leveraging the latest technology, and ground-breaking partnerships to bring the best care to the most marginalized children.
Heal
We are training lay counselors and frontline staff to provide culturally relevant, trauma-informed and lasting mental health care. With appropriate psycho-social interventions, children can begin to see hope and the possibility of a different, radically-improved future.
Transform
We are working within government and private care homes to test a holistic, trauma-informed model of care to help children transform their lives. With our coordinating partners, we are offering core modules that include wellness, healthy lifestyle mentoring, skills training, vocational support.