Youth Center of Texas

About Youth Center of Texas

In December 2019 Youth Center was established as a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization, inspired by the work of the Alamo Area Coalition Against Trafficking and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department after community partners and stakeholders identified that runaway children have significant higher risk for exploitation and trafficking; statistically, 1 in 3 will be victimized within 48 hours after running away from home. We also identified the need for a long-term specialized transitional program aimed to serve survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth (CSEY). On March 1, 2020, The Youth Center opened its Sunflower Home Program, an 8-bedroom transitional living program for female identifying survivors of CSEY ages 18-22, and their babies. The Youth Center of Texas. Inc. mission is to serve young adult survivors of child sex trafficking, who have aged out of child-serving systems, providing the holistic support needed to restore each survivor's growth into a life that is peaceful, productive, and free from victimization. The Youth Center is actively contributing to fill the gap in providing services to youth aging out of foster care; youth that without a continuum of services are at elevated risk of homelessness, incarceration, revictimization and most likely to engage in survival-sex and substance abuse. The Sunflower Home program provides Transitional Living Housing and Day Services in a holistic, individualized and trauma-informed program with services and support provided by case managers trained in Trust-Based Relational Intervention, individual and group therapy by a licensed professional counselor (LPC) certified in Trauma-Focus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Nurturing Parenting Program provided by a certified Case Manager for young adult survivors of child sex trafficking who are pregnant and/or have children provided by a certified Case Manager.

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