Hear about our history, our heart, and our how from Executive Director, Lindsey Speed.

Our Vision

Communities free from relational brokenness.

Our Values

HOPE : At the core of who we are, we believe every person was created on purpose for a purpose, and that hope and freedom are fully known through Jesus Christ.*

HUMILITY : We approach the fight for freedom acknowledging we do not have all the answers and wholeheartedly pledge deep collaboration with survivors, partners and the community – we are better together. We commit to a humble, teachable posture and embrace a culture of adaptability, willing to grow and evolve as we learn to craft inventive strategies for change.

HUMANITY : We believe every human was created equally with innate worth, fully deserving of justice and dignity. We recognize that our shared humanity is more powerful than our expertise and embrace authentic trust-based relationships as we journey alongside others in our own healing. We are compelled to bring excellence and integrity in all we do because people deserve our best.

Who We Serve

We serve children and youth regardless of religion, ethnicity, race, citizenship, gender, or sexual orientation. We believe the scope of this crime is too large for one organization to tackle alone; it takes all of us collaborating together, working across political, religious, and social boundaries.

Our Story

Traffick911 began in 2009 when a handful of community activists realized that child sex trafficking was not only happening in third-world countries but in their communities.

Since then, Traffick911’s mission has been focused on one thing: to free youth from sex trafficking. Over its history, the organization’s abolition efforts include forming vital local, state and federal partnerships, training over 82,000 youth and adults face-to-face with an audience-specific prevention and awareness message, training over 18,000 professionals and first responders on identifying victims, and directly serving thousands of survivors.   

Traffick911’s groundbreaking journey included operating a state-licensed, long-term restoration residential home for child sex trafficking victims which catapulted forward their understanding of the day-to-day needs of trafficking survivors. In addition, for years, they delivered the first-of-its-kind youth prevention outreaches in schools, juvenile detention centers, and youth shelters, teaching youth how to stay free from trafficking. Within those outreaches, Traffick911 encountered hundreds of youth every year who had already experienced trafficking and thus organically learned how to walk alongside those youth in their recovery journey effectively.

These experiences ultimately laid the foundation and deep understanding Traffick911 needed to create its flagship program, the Voice & Choice Program, which is now Traffick911’s sole programmatic focus – providing field-based 24/7 crisis response and relational advocacy to child sex trafficking victims in North Texas. After seven years in the anti-trafficking space, the Traffick911 team began to realize their sweet spot – relationships that weren’t tied to any specific residential program or service, simply walking alongside survivors day in, day out, year after year on their unique healing journey. After all, this is what they had been doing all along – building relationships with survivors, meeting them where they are, and advocating for whatever they need to heal.

In the 2015 Texas legislative session, legislation was passed requiring every child sex trafficking victim identified in Texas to have a unique “caseworker” (or advocate) assigned to them who did not belong to any one system. 

In response to this mandate, Traffick911 was selected by the Office of the Governor in Texas to deliver the Voice & Choice Advocacy Program as a part of formally coordinated regional multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) in North Texas Counties.

The Voice & Choice Advocacy program began to grow exponentially in 2017 when these MDTs formed, which include formal partnerships with law enforcement agencies, district attorney offices, juvenile justice departments, child advocacy centers, state child protective services, and others who work collaboratively within agreed-upon county protocols to serve child sex trafficking victims best. 

Currently, the organization formally provides services to Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton, and Ellis counties, serving over 200 child sex trafficking victims every year. The army of full-time staff and volunteers supporting them are driven by their theory of change, “Free people, free people.” They believe that the extent to which they, modern-day abolitionists, accept the brave personal journey of healing and freedom, they will be able to facilitate freedom in others.

Traffick911 was named Outstanding Organization of the Year by the Fort Worth Commission for Women, with commendations from the Fort Worth City Council, the mayor, and a State Senator. Homeland Security Investigations have also recognized them as a most-valued partner in this battle against the sexual exploitation of children.