The Solution: Forever Community
Our goal is to build a compassionate community to support the child’s healthy development toward a positive, hope-filled future.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
-Nelson Mandela
Reclaim13 works from a holistic model to intervene in the abuse and exploitation of children. Our Education and Prevention programs effectively keep children from falling victim to exploitation and child sex trafficking in the first place. These programs help children and families to properly understand the risk factors and to develop a strong sense of their value and self-worth.
Reclaim13’s Prevention and Education includes:
Community Education and Awareness - Reclaim13 speaks at various events around the community to help educate the community and bring awareness about the realities in your own community.
Prevention of Abuse and Child Exploitation (PACE)- families and students: kindergarten through high school
The Path: Into Hidden Sex Trafficking - To help prevent this tragic reality, Reclaim13 has created this prevention video for adolescents and adults to understand one common tactic a predator uses to manipulate a child.
Housing
The lack of adequate housing and safe shelter have been consistently identified as the greatest need in the fight to end sex trafficking.
Reclaim13 operates two specialized therapeutic homes for survivors of sexual exploitation. Our residential programs serve survivors as young as 10 up to 25 to provide the latest clinically-based healing and trauma-informed approaches to supporting their journey of reclaiming their path toward freedom.
Specialized Therapies
Child sexual exploitation impacts every aspect of development and has, potentially, life long consequences...unless there is intervention/healing. Trauma from victimization during childhood manifests in many ways:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Anxiety
Depression
Academic and attention problems
Fear and Dissociative responses
Complex trauma
Attachment Difficulties
Our approach to healing highly traumatized survivors of child abuse and exploitation includes specialized treatment planning led by our clinical team of licensed clinicians. Our therapists are trained in evidence-based therapies for trauma survivors, including:
EMDR
DBT
TF-CBT
Somatic experiencing, etc.
“My time here at Cherish House has been such a great experience and I am so blessed that I was able to get to know each and every one of you. I am truly grateful for the love and support you all have given me throughout my time here at the house. You all have showed me what a real family should look like and I am so blessed that I was able to be a part of all of you amazing, beautiful, women lives.”
— CH Resident
“People have tried to place me in other placements in the past but I would only stay for a couple of days until I would run.This is the longest I have ever stayed. Also it is the first time I have ever had the will to stay and get better. I really do want to get better, have a better life/future.”
—CH resident
Find out how you fit in with our Forever Community!