Magdalene Omaha

New beginnings campus - healing and recovery services in 2019, we began to offer services to survivors community wide through our non-residential setting we named our new beginnings campus. This program is open to all gender identifications. Through may of 2022, we offered trauma therapy and addiction recovery counseling services through this program. At that time, we shifted to instead using a network of collaboration partners to offer survivors a greater variety of therapeutic and clinical support.based on needs survivors identified to us, we have grown other services we offer in this setting. We offer peer support groups, psycho-educational groups, life skills classes, a weekly community dinner for survivors, and a personal items pantry. All support provided to survivors through the campus is offered free of charge.

Thistle lights and voila Magdalene bloomsin 2018, to provide job training for our residents, we opened our own survivor-led small business, thistle lights. In 2020, we grew this program by acquiring voila!, a flower shop that became known as voila! Magdalene blooms, so that we could boost the skills and job experiences we offered to survivors. As part of the changes that came with this addition, we also introduced a job readiness certificate course that survivors had to complete before they could apply for jobs, first at thistle lights and then, after demonstrating stability and progress, at voila! Magdalene blooms.

Residential services opened in 2017, our long-term residential peer support community offers residents up to two years of rent-free, safe, sober housing for adult women who survived prostitution/sex trafficking, trauma, and addiction. The residential program includes intensive, trauma-informed case management. Residents meet individualized achievement milestones at approximately six-month intervals. The first six months offer space and time to heal from trauma, both physically and emotionally. Residents receive all treatment needed for medical, dental, and substance abuse issues as well as legal assistance.we provide a range of educational programming, such as financial literacy, life sills, computer literacy, art therapy, and vocational or other educational training based on each woman's unique long-term goals. Graduates can continue to receive ongoing support through graduate services.

Community engagementsince our founding, we have conducted robust weekly educational activities to raise awareness about sex trafficking. We always seek to amplify the survivor voice through all of these activities.