Edee will share with you how she and her team built the much needed 2-year program, Sanctum House, for adult women survivors of sex trafficking. Creating a program takes love for subject, patience, and persistence. Before a program can become a reality, it needs a foundation. To build a program with integrity and quality takes time. Doing your research is a necessity. It is essential to engage all members of the human trafficking community so that you can acquire knowledge of the needs in the field for the victims. It is essential to educate yourself on how to build the appropriate team, then enlist the support of your community. You must network, and engage with qualified, experienced, and committed people. It is this group that you will join forces with to build a planning team and begin building the foundation of your organization. It is important to be clear on your vision and mission statement. By visiting and learning about other programs, it will help you understand who you want to serve and who you do not want to serve. Once you decide who and what you want to be, it is from there you start to build your program. Edee will leave attendees with some of the specific steps their team took to build their program. These are steps that you too can take to build an organization that will not only help to heal the people it serves, it will fill the mission that you decide is yours.
Edee Franklin has spent the last 8 years educating herself in every segment of the human trafficking arena to become an expert in how to create a long-term treatment program for adult women survivors of human trafficking, in a trauma informed organization, utilizing the dual diagnosis of trauma and addiction.