“Because of you I know what love is supposed to look like.”
— Freekind Client
Our Volunteer Survivor Advocates have the privilege of befriending and walking alongside those who have experienced victimization and exploitation at the hands of human traffickers and others in the commercial sex industry. Freekind provides short-term crisis advocacy and long-term life development advocacy. Our advocates also have the opportunity to facilitate classes we teach in local jails.
Survivor Advocacy Training
An integral part of Freekind’s mission is to provide victims with the resources they need as they seek healing and a new beginning. In order to do that, we have a team of volunteer victim advocates who have completed intensive training, background checks, psychological evaluations, and panel interviews to prepare to work one-on-one with individuals who have been exploited by the commercial sex industry.
We launched our first course in Spring 2014. The next class will mark our sixteenth Survivor Advocacy Training course! We hope to see you there.
About the Program
Since we began our advocacy program in 2014, we have been able to empower our survivor advocates to serve in a number of different ways. Currently, we have advocates who are walking in long-term relationships with clients, meeting short-term needs (like transportation requests), teaching classes in our local jails, and going on ride-alongs with law enforcement.
The heart behind our advocacy program is to create a culture where we show up for the men and women we are serving. Many of them have never had consistent people in their lives. We are truly seeing the difference it makes for people who have experienced trauma to know that someone will be there for them. I like to call it our "Culture of Persistence." Jesus left the 99 to go after the 1 who needed Him most.
We continue to train advocates because we have found the need to be great. We are looking for those who will faithfully walk alongside our clients and encourage them to reclaim the broken areas of their lives. The bonus to all this is that we get to be a part of the work that God is doing to bring justice to the darkest places in our community.
-Kathryn Martin
Survivor Advocate Coordinator
Download the training flyer.
COMING SOON!
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