Help Us Fight Commercial Sexual Exploitation
and Trafficking
Partner with us today in transforming the lives of girls and young women who have realized their full potential through more than 25 years of service at GEMS. At the $25 or more level, your donation can help with stipends for one girl to attend three groups or go toward one week of participation in a weekly parenting group, a GED prep group, or job training—to name a few. Donations can be made securely online and are tax deductible.
How You can help
You can help trafficking victims connect to the services and resources they need by helping to support GEMS. Below are just a few of the ways to help GEMS fight for a world where girls are not for sale:
Donate $25 to provide
a member with toiletries
for a month
Donate clothes, perishables and household items to help
Survivors on their journey
Get creative
with fundraising
opportunities
You can even make your donation using Zelle. Use donate@gems-girls.org
TRAINING
We provide training and technical assistance to agencies and institutions across the US that work with at risk youth, victims and survivors of domestic trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
Ask about our
GEMS 2-day Virtual Training on our Award-Winning Victim, Survivor, Leader™ (VSL) Curriculum
Join us for a 2-day virtual training on GEMS award-winning Victim, Survivor, Leader™ (VSL) curriculum. Participants will learn about the GEMS VSL program model, with its two foundational principles, Survivor Leadership and Transformational Relationships, and the six key core values. This training takes participants through the key factors and approaches that make up successful GEMS programming and teaches them how to utilize this model in their own organizations and work.
About our Victim, Survivor, Leader™ (VSL) curriculum: The VSL Training is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the core components of the VSL Model using practical examples of how the model can be effectively implemented in organizations serving and supporting victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation who are at different levels of healing and growth in their journey to becoming self-sufficient. This multi-day training focuses on building technical skills and capacity, sharing best practices, and developing tools for implementation through interactive activities.
Content level: Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced; CSEC 101 or equivalent training recommended prior to this training.
Ideal Audience: Social service providers, legal, and healthcare professionals
How We Serve Survivors
Educational Initiative
Court Advocacy
Holistic Case Management
Transitional & Supportive Housing
Our Impact
Our work works. And we have the numbers to prove it.
For July 2018, our Educational Initiative program had 122 participants:
were enrolled in college
are pursuing a GED/TASC
were enrolled in high school
How We Empower Survivors
We created The Survivor Leadership Institute and Resource Center (SLI) to help change the way girls and young women who have been in the life are seen by the world. The SLI helps survivors of CSEC and domestic trafficking learn to become leaders in their own life.
Gems Vision
In 1998, Rachel Lloyd founded GEMS to give the girls and young women of NYC who had been commercially sexually exploited a place for support and a place to create positive change in their lives. Our vision is to end the commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and young women.
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