Alternatives For Girls Enhanced Housing Services for Human-Trafficked Women

Alternatives For Girls (AFG) is a Detroit-based non-profit that serves homeless, runaway, human-trafficked, and at-risk girls/women of color.  Through the Safe Choices New Choices Housing Stability Services (SCNC HSS), AFG funding to support the following: 1) enhanced Rapid ReHousing services for a minimum of 15 sex and labor human trafficking victims, including short-term rental subsidies (6-24 months), housing navigation, landlord engagement, and trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and victim-centered case management focused on maintaining safe, stable housing; 2) provision of voluntary essential support services and personal advocacy, facilitating connections to mainstream resources and promoting self-sufficiency; 3) community education on human trafficking for stakeholders in the community and housing system, increasing awareness and addressing the comprehensive needs of  victims; 4) collaboration with federal, state, and local agencies, the Detroit Continuum of Care and other human trafficking coalitions, law enforcement, landlords/housing systems, and allied professionals to share outcomes and carry out best practices, and 5) promotion of racial equity and removal of service barriers through the involvement of human trafficking victims in program design, implementation, evaluation, and agency/community collaboratives.