Traffick911 is the only agency offering around-the-clock crisis intervention and continuous care for victims of child sex trafficking across all of North Texas, we call this the Voice & Choice Program.
Traffick911 provides 24/7 crisis response to law enforcement across North Texas: Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Collin, Ellis, and Rockwall Counties.
Traffick911’s highly-trained advocates respond to law enforcement when a victim is recovered and go to their location within 60 minutes. In those first crucial moments, Advocates help establish felt safety with a meal and a backpack filled with cozy items, a fuzzy teddy bear, toiletries, and a journal. They then help meet basic needs, implement a safety plan, and ensure the child has a safe place to stay in close partnership with a county multi-disciplinary team. But that is just the beginning! Advocates work with survivors into adulthood for long-term healing and protection from re-victimization through trauma-informed case management, goal-planning, and connection to safe community relationships.
Here is how we work with
child sex trafficking (CST) victims
The Voice & Choice Program pairs highly trained advocates with child sex trafficking victims.
Our services are field-based. That means Advocates go to meet kids and families right where they are.
When a survivor gets a Voice & Choice Advocate, they gain a friend.
Relationship is the intervention.
The Voice & Choice program is Traffick911's unique response to child sex trafficking victims, serving over 300 youth each year.
Having served survivors of child sex trafficking since 2009 and getting to know their different phases of restoration, we have learned the hard way - you can’t force healing on anyone. There’s no three-step program. What’s better is meeting each kid right where they are and empowering them to choose healing for themselves day after day, month after month, year after year. Our experience with thousands of victims has taught us that it was a relational wound (often many) which caused and contributed to victimization, and it will be healthy relational bonds that help victims heal and move from victim to survivor.
The Advocate’s goal, first and foremost, is to build a trust-based relationship. Advocacy can look like:
Regular face-to-face meetings and outings where Advocates and youth set goals and safety plan
Attending court proceedings and helping prepare victim impact statements
Hosting support groups where youth can interact with peers who have also been impacted by trafficking
Hosting birthday parties, GED/diploma graduation parties, milestone celebrations
Working with the child and family throughout placement and in between placements
Advocating for and recommending specialized services: we have a nationwide network of partners offering specialized residential placement/treatment and/or outpatient therapeutic programs
Educating the caregiver(s) and case workers/probation officers on the effects of child sex trafficking and the intense trauma that the child has endured
Advocates participate in regional multi-disciplinary teams in order to provide wrap-around services and support
We can’t do it alone!
At our core, we believe this fight takes collaboration on every level with other like-minded organizations, survivor leaders, service providers, advocates, lawmakers, and local, state, and federal law enforcement working together in a united front. Think of this issue like a wheel—each has a spoke in the wheel, and each part is vital.
Non-Crisis Referrals
The Voice & Choice program serves child sex trafficking victims in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton, Ellis, and Rockwall Counties. For questions about referrals, please email intake@traffick911.com.
Eligibility: We serve child sex trafficking victims ages 11-21. Clients must be under 18 to come into services, but we will continue serving them into adulthood.
Non-discrimination: Traffick911 does not discriminate and will not deny services to a client based on race, color, religion, gender, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, health status, employment status, immigration status, disability, or physical or cognitive ability. If you have a discrimination complaint, please email hello@traffick911.com or call 817-575-9923.
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