Organization for Prostitution Survivors

Ops's dedicated team delivered advocacy services to an average of 46 to 69 participants monthly. Our team, which included two full-time advocates and one youth advocate, was committed to the cause. Of these participants, 40 to 69 were actively engaged in service plans, with 19 to 46 identifying actionable next steps toward their personal goals. Notably, 28 and 47 participants made tangible progress toward achieving these objectives each month. Ops extended our impact through community outreach, organizing 15 events annually, significantly surpassing our initial goal of 4 events annually. We consistently hosted 1 to 8 monthly events, facilitating community engagement and support.

Therapeutic services provides comprehensive mental health and wellness therapy. Our licensed mental health therapist is available for crisis intervention and individual therapy sessions. The therapist collaborates with clients to develop a personalized treatment plan with specific goals and objectives to foster mental wellness and self-actualization. In 2023, our mental health therapist provided therapy to approximately 15 to 20 clients per week (1.0 hr sessions) and over 100 clients for the year.

Ops csec youth programming served over 50 youth ages 11-24 for 2023, including intakes for advocacy, outreach, case consultation, caregiver support, and basic needs support. In october 2023, we hired and onboarded an additional csec advocate to expand our youth-specific services, which increased caseload capacity by 20 percent. In the fourth quarter of 2023, our csec program manager began csec program development for 2024 to strategize and implement new and improved programming serving csec youth ages 11-24, which includes a youth-specific drop-in day (starting march 2024), youth summer events, greater community collaboration with youth-specific services, youth-specific support groups, and strengthening youth-specific outreach efforts.