Love146

In 2014, Love146 (US) added survivor care services to our programming, offering these services in Connecticut. What began with one social worker is now a statewide program, with a team of over 20 dedicated professionals. Today, over 850 youth in Connecticut have benefited from survivor care services which include, but are not limited to: skills development, education/employment assistance, crisis intervention, safety planning, application assistance, appointment accompaniment, and court/trial preparation/assistance. Love146 has shared lessons we have learned through our prevention education and survivor care services through national presentations, participation on national advisory committees, and publications. Love146 also offers survivor care services to victims of child trafficking in the United Kingdom. In 2010, Love146 opened an office in the United Kingdom. Love146 (UK) delivers child protection and survivor care services, including housing accommodation and support services to child survivors of trafficking. Love146 (UK) primarily serves children from abroad trafficked into the country for the purposes of sex, labor and other forms of exploitation. Through its Rapid Response Out-of-Hours Placement Service, Love146 (UK) is able to provide short-term housing accommodation and support services to unaccompanied children and suspected and confirmed child victims of trafficking. Those identified as suspected and confirmed victims of trafficking have the option to move to alternative longer-term placements, if needed. As of February 28, 2023 the offices in the United Kingdom closed due to the economic downturn in the country.

Our Survivor Care and Prevention Education programs are about directly reaching children who may be affected by trafficking. But many more people in a community can play a role in helping stop child trafficking and exploitation. Stakeholders are needed in every community in order to ensure we're building a safer world for children. Love146 strives to set a big table in order to foster both collaborations and the collective will to end child trafficking. We have resources and outreach efforts that have supported many communities, including businesses, policy makers, service providers, caregivers, and the anti-trafficking field itself.

Initially focusing our attention internationally, in 2005, Love146 launched our programs in the Philippines. Love146s Round Home is a safe home exclusively focused on the restoration and holistic care of girls who have been trafficked, while Love146s White Home in the Philippines provides similar services to boys. Together the Round and White Homes have served over 100 exploited children, and today our work in the Philippines also includes prevention efforts, community interventions, rigorous research, and systems change. Recognizing that children are not only trafficked overseas, in 2010 Love146 began offering services in the United States. Initially, programming in the United States focused on offering prevention education to children at-risk of trafficking in schools, child welfare and juvenile justice programs, and other community settings. From 2010 through 2014, Love146 (US) implemented prevention education programming to over 9,000 youth. Recognizing gaps in the available curricula, in 2015 Love146 (US) developed Not a Number, a five-module prevention curriculum that addresses critical issues (e.g., online recruitment and grooming, gang-related trafficking) and populations (e.g., males, LGBTQ, youth) not covered in other curricula. Committed to ensuring that our prevention education program remains current, Love146 (US) routinely updates our curriculum and is now on version three of Not a Number which is currently being implemented in 29 states.