Rapid Responses
This one-time intervention provides critical information and safety planning in a one-on-one setting to children and youth who are at high-risk for or suspected or confirmed survivors of human trafficking. Designed to target the unique risk factors and needs of individual children, Rapid Responses are an extremely effective intervention that helps youth understand the grooming, recruitment, and exploitation involved in human trafficking so that they are empowered to make informed decisions regarding their safety and seek additional services as needed.
Survivor Care: Long-Term Care
Guided by individualized Care Plans youth develop, Long-Term Services are designed to help youth address their trauma and reduce their risk for revictimization. Long-Term Services are provided by licensed social workers and services may include, but are not limited to: crisis counseling, mental health services, safety planning, building social capital, psycho-social education, criminal/civil justice system assistance, personal advocacy/accompaniment, education support, and information and referral services. The length of Long-Term Services varies based on youth’s individual needs but are typically provided for 9-18 months.
Survivor Care: Transitional Services
For youth ages 16+, Love146 offers Transitional Services to help youth enter adulthood and achieve economic independence and well-being. Through Transitional Services, Love146 staff help youth with locating employment opportunities, completing employment applications, resume building, interview techniques and soft skills, on the job support to maintain employment, securing post-secondary education or vocational placement, completing scholarship and Financial Aid applications, housing, parenting, and case management. The National Youth Employment Coalition recognized the impressive impact of Love146’s education and employment services, awarding Love146 their 2024 Innovation Award.
Survivor Care: Parenting Support
Love146 takes a 2-Generation approach journeying alongside the parents and caregivers of youth receiving Long-Term Services,providing them psychosocial support, information and resources so that they’re better able to help and protect their children. For parents who’ve experienced their own victimization, Love146 provides additional support and referral services so that they are able to effectively address their own trauma while also caring for their children. Rapid Responses are also available for parents and caregivers so that they have a clear understanding of the grooming, recruitment, and exploitation involved in human trafficking, the needs of children who have experienced trafficking victimization, and the resources available in Connecticut.
Prevention Education
Love146’s Prevention Education curricula, Not a Number, is being implemented in over 30 states, including Connecticut. This 5-module Nationally recognized prevention education program is designed for youth ages 12-18, and can be implemented with youth in a variety of settings including schools, residential settings, after-school programs, and other community-based settings. The goal of this curriculum is to provide individuals with the knowledge necessary to identify potential traffickers and the skills needed to effectively counter their recruitment and grooming tactics.
Community Training and Advocacy
Love146 provides training to communities and providers working with youth disproportionately impacted by trafficking victimization in order to ensure that they are aware of the issue and the resources that exist within Love146 and across the state to support youth who have experienced this form of victimization. We’re also committed to system’s change. Love146 brings our on-the-ground expertise and insights to educate decision-makers, community leaders, legislators, and others across the state so that they have the information they need to protect and provide for vulnerable and trafficked youth.
Love146 is committed to investing in and delivering innovative programs,and rigorously evaluating our efforts. By measuring the impact of our programs on the children we serve, we aim to set a standard that reimagines what effective child trafficking prevention and survivor care can look like, and sharing our findings so that they may be replicated at scale. Love146’s prevention and survivor care work are both undergoing third-party outcome evaluations, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Crimes Against Children Research Center with funding from the CDC and DOJ.
