What We Do

Transitions Global builds new lives for survivors of sex trafficking.

Transitions Global provides holistic shelter and aftercare services to girls through our Transitional Living Centers (TLC) and S.T.A.R. Houses (Secondary Transitional Apartment Residences). These safe, home-like environments provide the needed safety and security for girls to begin the process of healing.

What makes Transitions unique is our belief that our girls can achieve anything once they remember how to dream. Our focus is on providing viable job skills that create sustainable incomes and stable futures.

Transitions Global provides comprehensive aftercare services to girls between the ages of 13-19 years old who have been sexually trafficked, exploited, or abused. This is accomplished through a continuum of care consisting of psychological, social, educational, and health services, as well as, job training and placement, keeping the individual girl’s needs and desires at the forefront.

Our approach encompasses both trauma recovery and empowerment of the individual. Because we focus on maximizing opportunities for a healthy and sustainable future, we must be result-driven. Transitions Global works from a holisitic model of care, which is victim-informed, evidence-based, and social work-driven.

Our goal is to empower girls to have 'voices and choices' through quality aftercare, which makes this program work.

These principles have proven effective in Cambodia, and are applicable anywhere we work.

Transitions Global was founded on four basic principles that strike at the core of who we are and convey the passion, quality, and commitment that we express through our work in best serving our girls:

Rescue is not an event; it's a process.

A girl's 'rescue' is not complete when she is removed from harm's way. This is simply the beginning of her journey. Rescue is the process and passage a girl will go through in finding her voice. We want to honor her journey as she moves from victim to survivor to become a happy, healthy and empowered individual.

Freedom without a future is simply another form of slavery.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) there are two key elements in eradicating human trafficking: raising the status of girls and women and eliminating the entitlement of men. We strive to address the first issue--giving girls viable and sustainable job skills and positions in society that restore their dignity and empower them to dream again. In addressing the first issue, we establish the necessary foundation to tackle the issue of demand. Empowered young women have the capacity and status to address issues of gender bias and inequality.

When you can't tell the difference between her and us, we have done our job.

Our goal is to restore lives, not just patch them up. We want to do a quality job of building new lives, meaning that we must strive to work alongside girls to help them develop a life of substance and meaning. This takes tremendous effort and a relentless emphasis on quality. Piecing services together is an ineffective response for trafficking victims. We endeavor to provide our clients with the most holistic program possible, while finding a balance in utilizing the services and resources of other organizations and agencies where it benefits the girls we serve.

By giving girls choices, we restore their voices.

Transitions Global strives to create environments, opportunities, programs and systems to empower girls and give them control of their own lives. We do this in stages, first treating the trauma, in order to encourage and respect their desires and choices wherever possible.