We act as the COMPASS
guiding towards hope, healing, and safety for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation.
guiding towards hope, healing, and safety for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation.
- We offer both 24/7 crisis intervention and on-going victim advocacy that is culturally specific and responsive. We exist to support the survivor, and believe they know what is best for themselves as they take steps on the path toward safety and healing.
- Safety Compass points hopefully toward the continuum of services available in the community for survivors of sex trafficking. We are partnered with an extensive array of agencies to refer survivors to comprehensive, wrap-around care. We are committed to providing this within the community, for the health and healing of both the individual and the community as a whole.
- Safety Compass does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion or creed, gender, gender identity, age, disability/difference, sexual orientation, or immigration status.
If you are wondering who fits the description of a victim/survivor of commercial sexual exploitation or sex trafficking, see the bottom of this page: What is commercial sexual exploitation?
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What is commercial sexual exploitation?
Commercial Sexual Exploitation and/ or Sex trafficking is: the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. This is induced by force, fraud, or coercion/manipulation. Although, for individuals under the age of 18, force, fraud, or coercion does not need to be proven to be considered sex trafficking, although those elements are often present. Additionally, sex trafficking does not just happen to young women, it happens to all genders.