Direct Services
Direct services
Everyone deserves access to support, healing, and hope. UAHT’s trauma-informed direct services provide a safe space for individuals at risk of or impacted by human trafficking to process their experiences and build a path forward.
Through programs like Real Talk, a healing-centered support group for youth and adults, and Stopping Sexual Exploitation (SSE), a restorative accountability program that helps participants unpack harmful behaviors of buying sex and focus on humanizing survivors of sexual exploitation, we meet people where they are—with dignity and care.
Our Case Management program connects survivors (18+) of sex and labor trafficking to wraparound services including counseling, advocacy, ESL classes, financial literacy, job readiness, and safe housing —empowering individuals to regain independence and thrive.
Why?
Survivors or trauma and exploitation often face complex, ongoing challenges. Without holistic, judgment-free support, the risk of (re)victimization remains high. UAHT’s programs are build to interrupt that cycle—offering the tools, relationships, and resources needed for long-term healing and stability.
34
labor and sex trafficking survivors received wraparound case management in 2024
Direct Services
Everyone deserves access to support, healing, and hope. UAHT’s trauma-informed direct services provide a safe space for individuals at risk of or impacted by human trafficking to process their experiences and build a path forward.
Through programs like Real Talk, a healing-centered support group for youth and adults, and Stopping Sexual Exploitation (SSE), a restorative accountability program that helps participants unpack harmful behaviors of buying sex and focus on humanizing survivors of sexual exploitation, we meet people where they are—with dignity and care.
Our Case Management program connects survivors (18+) of sex and labor trafficking to wraparound services including counseling, advocacy, ESL classes, financial literacy, job readiness, and safe housing —empowering individuals to regain independence and thrive.
Why?
Survivors or trauma and exploitation often face complex, ongoing challenges. Without holistic, judgment-free support, the risk of (re)victimization remains high. UAHT's programs are build to interrupt that cycle—offering the tools, relationships, and resources needed for long-term healing and stability.
34
labor and sex trafficking survivors received wraparound case management in 2024
Real Talk Program
Real Talk is a trauma-informed support group, which engages teens and adults who have already experienced trauma or trafficking and are vulnerable to recruitment and (re)victimization. Our supportive services consist of 7 virtual or on-site visits, this program provides participants a chance to process through open conversations and enrichment activities.
Program topics include:
- The signs and signals of human trafficking and exploitation;
- Relationship topics: stereotypes and labeling; processing self-esteem issues, feelings of shame and guilt; healthy versus unhealthy relationships;
- Trauma and the body’s response;
- A mentality of empowerment.
UAHT uses a holistic approach focusing on respect, empathy and individual strengths. A brain-based approach, this model works with traumatized individuals through socialization and healthy self-care habits. These activities include emotional management, cardio-centered aerobic exercises, yoga, expressive art, wellness focused workshops, meditation, and other group empowerment activities.
Case Management
Our specially trained Case Manager walks alongside trafficking survivors from the day we meet them until full recovery.
Key Benefits:
- Survivors can focus on healing, rather than maneuvering through logistics.
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Survivors have accountability to attend every counseling session, job training, and support group they need.
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Survivors have a trained and trustworthy professional to help them overcome the barriers of healing.
Family Huddle
Family Huddle provides a place for families to overcome the trauma they experienced with others who can relate. Together, we help families rebuild and guide their children back into family life and prevent them from returning to exploitation. After sharing dinner together, caregivers, survivors, and siblings split into groups for a specialized program.
Program includes
- For Caregivers: Tools That Restore
- For Survivors: Real Talk
- For Siblings:
Stopping Sexual Exploitation
Stopping Sexual Exploitation: A Program for Men is based on the best and most-promising practices available to prevent gender-based violence. it is designed to help men understand their behavior and promote their accountability in choosing to not buy sex. The program consists of the following components:
- Two individual 60-minute sessions of Motivation Interviewing
- Eight weekly group sessions that cover these topics:
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- Sexuality and Gender Socialization,
- Harm to Victim/Survivors,
- The Sexual Violence Continuum,
- Pimping, Trafficking and Domestic Violence,
- Power and Violence,
- Vulnerability,
- Mutuality in Relationships; and
- The Will to Change
“I previously viewed prostitution as separate from sex trafficking, but after participating in Stopping Sexual Exploitation: A Program for Men, I see a deeper connection between prostitution, pornography, and […] sex trafficking.”
– SSE Participant
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