Preventing Trafficking of Girls in San Diego County

With funding through the OVC 2024 Preventing Trafficking of Girls program, North County Lifeline proposes a project titled, “Preventing Trafficking of Girls in San Diego County.” The primary purpose is to prevent and reduce victimization of girls up to age 25 in San Diego County who are vulnerable to sex and/or labor trafficking. The primary activities include significantly expanding Lifeline’s human trafficking prevention education services and hiring a full-time Prevention Specialist to manage these efforts. Prevention education will target girls at high risk for sex and labor trafficking throughout the county. Community-based prevention workshops will be provided to parents. Identified victims and their parents will participate in brief counseling services and will then be linked to the most appropriate victim services provider for longer-term intervention services. The expected outcomes include increasing human trafficking awareness among girls at high risk for sex and/or labor trafficking, increasing human trafficking awareness among parents, ensuring accessibility to underserved communities, improving support services for parents of minor victims, and connecting girls and families with longer-term intervention programs that will lead to stabilization and healing. The geographic service area includes San Diego County with a target audience of girls up to age 25. There are subrecipients for this award: BSCC victim services provider (San Diego, CA); and Konica/Minolta (Vista, CA).