Reaching Above Hopelessness and Brokenness Ministries

The adult safe house is a long-term residential home exclusively for victims of commercial sexual exploitation. The home houses up to ten women; each woman is provided with cutting-edge trauma informed care, at no cost to her. The 2023 tax year was the final year for this program. The adult safe house closed on may 31, 2023, and ceased all services from that program.

Minor programming: rahab Ministries provides mentoring services to youth who have been victimized by sex trafficking in four northeast Ohio counties, and community-based case management to a segment of enrolled youth and their families. Youth are referred by juvenile courts in summit and cuyahoga counties, service providers, and the public. Enrolled youth meet with a healthy trauma-informed adult mentor weekly at one of rahab's youth centers located in akron and cleveland or out in the community. Mentors take youth for fun activities to restore a sense of childhood that was stripped away by trafficking and to build healing relationships where mentors can help process trauma, encourage positive decision making, and build the youth's self-esteem. Youth and families enrolled in community-based case management have access to weekly mentoring and case management services to promote healing in-environment.

Drop-in homes: rahab Ministries operates two nonresidential drop-in homes, in akron and canton, strategically located in areas with a high prevalence of prostitution to be easily accessible to the local women being affected by sex trafficking. The drop-in homes open on weekdays, with transportation available for those in need, to offer warm meals, free clothing and hygiene supplies, referrals to additional services as needed, daily bible study, therapeutic programming, and most importantly an open invitation for women to participate in safe, uplifting, peer-supported community. The unique open-door policy strategically reduces barriers to service for the most vulnerable by allowing women to attend without application, referral, or qualification.

Rahab outreach teams go into local streets, strip clubs and jails to meet unidentified victims of sex trafficking, offering safe, healthy, and supportive connections with an invitation for further services. Street and strip club teams go to areas where prostitution and commercial sex trade drives a demand for trafficking, building relationships with women by offering meals, small gifts, conversation, prayer, and connection to further services at rahab. Jail teams go into local correctional facilities offering bible study and building a support system for women that they can rely on pre- and post-release.