EMPOWER PROGRAM
Rescue Her provides long-term advocacy services for adult, female survivors of trafficking in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area through our Empower Program. Our program focuses on empowerment in these five areas: legal, independent living (housing, transportation, financial needs), community, safe environment, and health (physical, emotional, and mental).
Each Brave One, or survivor in our program, is paired with a staff Advocate and a Volunteer Mentor to offer emotional support, guidance, and assistance identifying and reaching goals. Brave Ones also receive financial support for things like transportation to and from work/school, medical/prescription needs, and basic necessities (clothes/food/hygiene) with the end goal being financial independence.
Because Brave Ones are coming out of an exploitive and abusive community, we place a heavy emphasis on helping each survivor create a new, healthy community where they can thrive. Community is created through attending Empower Night (our weekly survivor support group), volunteer mentorship, guidance in restoring existing relationships with family and friends if possible, and partnership with local churches and agencies.
Our advocacy services have no end. Some survivors in our program have been with us for years; others have just left exploitation as recently as a month ago. While our advocacy services begin when survivors are local to DFW, we also have a virtual Empower Program for those that end up moving out of the city/state to continue their healing.
Click below to sponsor a Brave One currently in our program.