The need for emergency housing for victims of sexual exploitation and abuse is urgent. The damage caused by prostitution, abuse, STDs, and drug use is lethal to young people who have no access to proper care.

As law enforcement continues to progress in its careful handling of victims, it is necessary to provide emergency housing for victims at all hours of the day and night, without fail. Every police officer, detective, or prosecutor connected to the rescue and care of these young victims tells Ahava Kids about their one common problem: "There is no place for victims." Now there is.

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These young victims have been through horrible abuse. Often, when they are rescued by police, usually very late at night, there are absolutely no safe, reliable facilities capable of taking them in. From the moment they are taken off the streets, they are in need of shelter, food, security, and someone whom they can trust.

The Ahava Kids Safe House provides safe, comfortable, housing for these specific victims at a moment’s notice. Initially, it will include facilities for up to twenty residents, along with living area for staff, kitchen, bath, laundry, and storage facilities. The building also contains high levels of security apparatus and safety design considerations. Yet, it offers a home like environment for residents.

This allows Ahava Kids’ personnel, Intervention Specialists, to receive and care for victims whenever they are contacted by law enforcement. Having taking victims in, our staff then utilizes all the necessary resources to provide customized, long-term care.

Calling on the disciplines of and professionals in the medical field, mental health care, psychology, counseling, family counseling, nutrition and wellness, educational training, job training, and parent training, Ahava Kids coordinates the necessary care for victims.

The Ahava Kids Safe House introduces a previously unknown solution to the urgent needs of young victims in the United States.

We cannot allow the needs of victims to go unanswered. These young people must be given the immediate and ongoing care they require in order to live a safe, healthy and long life. If their needs go unanswered, the abuse they suffer in childhood will manifest in later years. This will only lead to further abuse, mental and physical illness, drug use and criminal behavior.

The Ahava Kids Safe House fills an enormous and immediate need in the care of young victims of exploitation, trafficking and abuse. Right now, many victims have no place to go. This facility is an urgently needed solution to a problem faced by all law enforcement agencies in the United States. This program works directly with law enforcement agencies and health care providers to quickly and efficiently bring immediate care to victims.

Ahava Kids has the capability to network all stakeholders in this effort. Together, we can help these young victims while bringing an end to this crime. But, we can't do it alone. We need your help right away.

The Ahava Kids Safe House Program Objectives are:

• To Continue operating our Safe House for the rescue and care of young victims of trafficking and exploitation in New England and New York City.
• Provide at least twenty victims at a time with the best possible treatment for mental, emotional and physical health issues along with any other consequences of their abuse.
• Build relationships with victims while providing for their ongoing treatment, safety, health and well being.
• Build trusting relationships with victims in order to offer their reliable testimony against later prosecution of traffickers.
• Review design and operational procedures in order to improve the future establishment and operation of additional safe-houses in the United States.
• Determine best practices for establishing a national program for the rescue and treatment of exploitation, trafficking and abuse victims.
• Long-term Objectives:
  - Establish funding for the ongoing operation and expansion of the current Ahava Kids Safe-House.
  - Establish Safe-Houses in trafficking hot spots in the United States, such as Southern Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada.

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If you would like to receive the complete
Ahava Kids Safe House Profile including Medical Notes and Budget,
please email us.