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- EIN 81-3646918
- hello@safeexits.org
- 534 Cambridge Street c/o Audra Doody Worcester MA 01610 USA
- https://safeexitinitiative.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Human Services
Mission: Safe Exit Initiative's mission is to create safe and sustainable exits from exploitation and the sex trade through quality programming, strategic partnerships and comprehensive legislative initiatives.
Results: To date, SEI has provided support for at least 1163 individuals, mostly women and girls, who have been directly impacted by the sex trade across 17 domains of self-sufficiency. 48% have disclosed that they have experienced incarceration in their lifetime, 85% have been diagnosed with, and impacted by, substance use disorder, and at least 43% are known to have met the criteria for PTSD. Our residential recovery program has supported over 200 women working towards recovery from substance use disorder, mental health disorder and safer and sustainable exits from the sex trade since it opened in 2019. Our reentry support program, started in 2017, now supports over 100 women annually.
Target demographics: individuals impacted by the sex trade and those at risk
Direct beneficiaries per year: over 600 individuals in Worcester programming, alone. Over 1100 women and youth impacted by the sex trade have been supported since the organization's founding.
Geographic areas served: Worcester, MA., Springfield, MA., and Baltimore, MD.
Programs: day shelter (12 hours a day, 365 days annually), street outreach (3 days weekly), naloxone distribution and harm reduction education, residential and nonresidential case management and care coordination, co-occurring residential programming and treatment for women impacted by the sex trade who have been diagnosed with substance use disorder and mental health disorders, reentry support for women impacted by incarceration and the sex trade, and in-house legal case management and referrals to pro bono supports.