Nashville Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition, Inc.
Programs
Budget
$189,000.00
Description
We are a survivor-led Rescue organization that is a first point-of-contact with victims. NAHT's trained survivor-interventionists meet victims right where they are and partner with other community organizations to provide relational support to victims in active sex trafficking and addiction. NAHT places victims in needs-based partner facilities. NAHT finances interventions by advocating for grants, coordinating payment with insurance companies and, when necessary, providing financial assistance. We provide clothing, toiletries, linens and transportation to rehabilitation facilities.Upon program completion, NAHT helps survivors find and become established in sober-living communities through our Restore services.
Additionally, we train law enforcement, human trafficking task forces, city and county police. Survivors on staff provide critical insight from the victim's perspective. Resulting from our trainings, many victims have been rescued and traffickers have been arrested.
Program Successes
In 2019, NAHT received a referral about a mother "S" and her 3-year-old daughter "Y" who were being trafficked out of a local trap house. The NAHT intervention specialist contacted S and began discussing getting out. A trusting relationship was established. Months later, S & Y were taken to the emergency room with severe illnesses. The mother contacted NAHT. NAHT worked with DCS to get the child to safety before her traffickers could take her. Then NAHT was able to admit S to partner treatment facilities, followed by residential treatment and finally a sober living community.
S began therapy, family therapy with Y, and began restoring the bonds that were broken by trafficking and addiction. S met all the requirements of DCS and as of 2022 has joint custody of Y, along with her grandmother. This fall, Y will start school at the King's Academy. S & Y (now age 5) have a thriving relationship. S now works for NAHT helping to rescue other victims.
Beneficiaries
People with substance use disorder
Victims
At-Risk Populations
Long-term Success
Long-term success means that NAHT is a firmly established, well-known and highly-trusted organization that fills in the gaps of the anti-human trafficking landscape. Our extensive network with addiction facilities and human trafficking law enforcement throughout the state ensures that NAHT is on the front lines with victims doing interventions and rescues and that victims are safely transported and placed in the best treatment facility for them within hours of rescue. After victims complete treatment programs, NAHT's comprehensive wrap-around services and after-care help them apply what they learned in treatment by supplying a community to help them continue in their recovery, providing intensive mentoring and care, thereby impacting relapse and recidivism. Interventions lead to victims being rescued from trafficking, becoming sober and working through restorative classes to become independently thriving survivors who then invest in the rescue and restoration of other victims.
Short-term Success
In 2021, NAHT performed 150 assessments, 124 interventions, and 85 rescues were completed. In 2022, NAHT seeks to double that number.
The primary outcome of the NAHT Rescue and Restore programs is to see victims become Survivors and ultimately Thrivers. Through our survivor-informed classes and curriculum, they develop a support system with other Survivors who understand their trauma and walk with them through their ongoing recovery and healing. Many women heal from their trauma and develop spiritually robust lives of great hope, progress in their sobriety and healing, gain financial autonomy and become gainfully employed. Their healing is furthered and strengthened as they draw on their experiences to encourage and mentor other Survivors. The impact of NAHT is that many women are freed from their traffickers and a life of being sold for sex and freed from a life of drug addiction. The value of that outcome cannot be measured.
Program Success Monitored By
We measure our effectiveness by tracking the number of assessments, interventions and rescues, and the numbers of referrals we receive from dozens of partners throughout the state of Tennessee including law enforcement and treatment and detox facilities, and the number of volunteers who attend our events and trainings. Ultimately, our effectiveness is professed by the testimonies of the growing number of Survivors we serve, who are continuing attendance in our classes and events, actively in trauma therapy, gainfully employed and coming off government assistance.
Program Areas Served
Nashville/Middle Tennessee
$189,000.00
Description
We are a survivor-led Rescue organization that is a first point-of-contact with victims. NAHT's trained survivor-interventionists meet victims right where they are and partner with other community organizations to provide relational support to victims in active sex trafficking and addiction. NAHT places victims in needs-based partner facilities. NAHT finances interventions by advocating for grants, coordinating payment with insurance companies and, when necessary, providing financial assistance. We provide clothing, toiletries, linens and transportation to rehabilitation facilities.Upon program completion, NAHT helps survivors find and become established in sober-living communities through our Restore services.
Additionally, we train law enforcement, human trafficking task forces, city and county police. Survivors on staff provide critical insight from the victim's perspective. Resulting from our trainings, many victims have been rescued and traffickers have been arrested.
Program Successes
In 2019, NAHT received a referral about a mother "S" and her 3-year-old daughter "Y" who were being trafficked out of a local trap house. The NAHT intervention specialist contacted S and began discussing getting out. A trusting relationship was established. Months later, S & Y were taken to the emergency room with severe illnesses. The mother contacted NAHT. NAHT worked with DCS to get the child to safety before her traffickers could take her. Then NAHT was able to admit S to partner treatment facilities, followed by residential treatment and finally a sober living community.
S began therapy, family therapy with Y, and began restoring the bonds that were broken by trafficking and addiction. S met all the requirements of DCS and as of 2022 has joint custody of Y, along with her grandmother. This fall, Y will start school at the King's Academy. S & Y (now age 5) have a thriving relationship. S now works for NAHT helping to rescue other victims.
Beneficiaries
People with substance use disorder
Victims
At-Risk Populations
Long-term Success
Long-term success means that NAHT is a firmly established, well-known and highly-trusted organization that fills in the gaps of the anti-human trafficking landscape. Our extensive network with addiction facilities and human trafficking law enforcement throughout the state ensures that NAHT is on the front lines with victims doing interventions and rescues and that victims are safely transported and placed in the best treatment facility for them within hours of rescue. After victims complete treatment programs, NAHT's comprehensive wrap-around services and after-care help them apply what they learned in treatment by supplying a community to help them continue in their recovery, providing intensive mentoring and care, thereby impacting relapse and recidivism. Interventions lead to victims being rescued from trafficking, becoming sober and working through restorative classes to become independently thriving survivors who then invest in the rescue and restoration of other victims.
Short-term Success
In 2021, NAHT performed 150 assessments, 124 interventions, and 85 rescues were completed. In 2022, NAHT seeks to double that number.
The primary outcome of the NAHT Rescue and Restore programs is to see victims become Survivors and ultimately Thrivers. Through our survivor-informed classes and curriculum, they develop a support system with other Survivors who understand their trauma and walk with them through their ongoing recovery and healing. Many women heal from their trauma and develop spiritually robust lives of great hope, progress in their sobriety and healing, gain financial autonomy and become gainfully employed. Their healing is furthered and strengthened as they draw on their experiences to encourage and mentor other Survivors. The impact of NAHT is that many women are freed from their traffickers and a life of being sold for sex and freed from a life of drug addiction. The value of that outcome cannot be measured.
Program Success Monitored By
We measure our effectiveness by tracking the number of assessments, interventions and rescues, and the numbers of referrals we receive from dozens of partners throughout the state of Tennessee including law enforcement and treatment and detox facilities, and the number of volunteers who attend our events and trainings. Ultimately, our effectiveness is professed by the testimonies of the growing number of Survivors we serve, who are continuing attendance in our classes and events, actively in trauma therapy, gainfully employed and coming off government assistance.
Program Areas Served
Nashville/Middle Tennessee
Budget
$361,000.00
Description
NAHT's survivor-led Restore courses help survivors on their journey from victim, to survivor, to thriver.
When a victim completes treatment, Restore uniquely provides aftercare services to help survivors continue in their recovery, greatly impacting relapse and recidivism rates. After rehabilitation, NAHT finances the first week in a sober-living community, pays the deposit and provides a grocery stipend,
new cell phone, bus pass, work clothes and, if needed, assistance acquiring a driver's license, birth certificates and social security cards. Survivors enroll in Restore classes that focus on (1) physical & emotional sobriety, (2) grief/loss and spiritual vibrancy and (3) leadership and economic sustainability.
Restore meets survivors in the early stages of recovery from addiction & trauma and provides a supportive community in survivor-led/informed classes & wrap-around services critical to ongoing recovery. Restore classes are free and participants have life-time membership.
Program Successes
Interventions that lead to victims being rescued from trafficking, becoming sober and working through restorative classes to become independently thriving survivors who then invest in the rescue and restoration of other victims.
Category
Human Services - Case Management
Beneficiaries
Women and girls
Victims
Adults
Long-term Success
The primary outcome of the NAHT Restore program is to see victims become Survivors and ultimately Thrivers. Through our survivor-informed classes and curriculum, they develop a support system with other Survivors who understand their trauma and walk with them through their ongoing recovery and healing. Many women heal from their trauma and develop spiritually robust lives of great hope, progress in their sobriety and healing, gain financial autonomy and become gainfully employed. Their healing is furthered and strengthened as they draw on their experiences to encourage and mentor other Survivors.
Short-term Success
Immediate short-term success includes making the key hires that will enable NAHT to increase our services in order to meet more demand: increasing from one daily class to 3 Restore classes daily (we currently have waiting lists); hosting monthly Survivor events with volunteer opportunities.
Program Success Monitored By
We measure our effectiveness by tracking the number of people who attend our Restore classes, the number of individuals on waiting lists for classes, the number of referrals we receive, and the number of volunteers who attend our events and trainings, feedback and testimonies from attendees, demonstrations of increased health and well-being of participants.
Program Areas Served
Nashville/Middle Tennessee
$361,000.00
Description
NAHT's survivor-led Restore courses help survivors on their journey from victim, to survivor, to thriver.
When a victim completes treatment, Restore uniquely provides aftercare services to help survivors continue in their recovery, greatly impacting relapse and recidivism rates. After rehabilitation, NAHT finances the first week in a sober-living community, pays the deposit and provides a grocery stipend,
new cell phone, bus pass, work clothes and, if needed, assistance acquiring a driver's license, birth certificates and social security cards. Survivors enroll in Restore classes that focus on (1) physical & emotional sobriety, (2) grief/loss and spiritual vibrancy and (3) leadership and economic sustainability.
Restore meets survivors in the early stages of recovery from addiction & trauma and provides a supportive community in survivor-led/informed classes & wrap-around services critical to ongoing recovery. Restore classes are free and participants have life-time membership.
Program Successes
Interventions that lead to victims being rescued from trafficking, becoming sober and working through restorative classes to become independently thriving survivors who then invest in the rescue and restoration of other victims.
Category
Human Services - Case Management
Beneficiaries
Women and girls
Victims
Adults
Long-term Success
The primary outcome of the NAHT Restore program is to see victims become Survivors and ultimately Thrivers. Through our survivor-informed classes and curriculum, they develop a support system with other Survivors who understand their trauma and walk with them through their ongoing recovery and healing. Many women heal from their trauma and develop spiritually robust lives of great hope, progress in their sobriety and healing, gain financial autonomy and become gainfully employed. Their healing is furthered and strengthened as they draw on their experiences to encourage and mentor other Survivors.
Short-term Success
Immediate short-term success includes making the key hires that will enable NAHT to increase our services in order to meet more demand: increasing from one daily class to 3 Restore classes daily (we currently have waiting lists); hosting monthly Survivor events with volunteer opportunities.
Program Success Monitored By
We measure our effectiveness by tracking the number of people who attend our Restore classes, the number of individuals on waiting lists for classes, the number of referrals we receive, and the number of volunteers who attend our events and trainings, feedback and testimonies from attendees, demonstrations of increased health and well-being of participants.
Program Areas Served
Nashville/Middle Tennessee
Budget
$263,000.00
Description
A prevention program, Educate to Recognize, for middle and high school students, their parents, teachers and administrators. NAHT will partner with STARS, a State-funded drug prevention and education organization, to bring awareness of the opioid and fentanyl crisis and how drug use creates vulnerability upon which human traffickers prey.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Families
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
$263,000.00
Description
A prevention program, Educate to Recognize, for middle and high school students, their parents, teachers and administrators. NAHT will partner with STARS, a State-funded drug prevention and education organization, to bring awareness of the opioid and fentanyl crisis and how drug use creates vulnerability upon which human traffickers prey.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Families
Program Areas Served
Tennessee
Budget
$295,000.00
Description
In the fall of 2023, NAHT launched its social enterprise, Sweet Daisy, a bakery specializing in petit fours and cakes. Sweet Daisy exists to provide beautiful and delicious sweets for our community as we resource Survivors with training and meaningful employment, necessary to becoming a Thriver.
Beneficiaries
Women and girls
People with substance use disorder
Victims
Program Areas Served
Nashville
$295,000.00
Description
In the fall of 2023, NAHT launched its social enterprise, Sweet Daisy, a bakery specializing in petit fours and cakes. Sweet Daisy exists to provide beautiful and delicious sweets for our community as we resource Survivors with training and meaningful employment, necessary to becoming a Thriver.
Beneficiaries
Women and girls
People with substance use disorder
Victims
Program Areas Served
Nashville
