GET HELP!
You Don’t Have to Have All the Answers Before You Ask for Help:
If you are experiencing exploitation, are concerned that someone may be exploiting you, or are worried about someone you know, Olive Charitable Organization is here to help.
You do not have to know whether your situation legally qualifies as human trafficking. You do not have to know exactly what services you need. Start by reaching out. We can help you understand your options and determine what comes next.
How Olive Can Help:
Every person’s situation is different. Our staff works individually with each person to understand their immediate needs, concerns, goals, and circumstances.
Support may include:
- Specialized human trafficking case management
- Advocacy
- Safety planning
- Safe and transitional housing
- Emergency and basic needs assistance
- Transportation assistance
- Referrals to medical and behavioral health services
- Assistance navigating community resources
- Connections to legal and other professional services
- Education and employment resources
- Support navigating public benefits and other systems
- Continued case management and follow-up support
When a service is not provided directly by Olive, our staff works with a network of community partners to help connect individuals with appropriate resources.
You Have Choices:
Seeking help does not mean giving up control over what happens next.
Our role is to provide information, support, advocacy, and options so you can make informed decisions about your own safety and future. Whenever possible, services and goals are developed with you—not for you.
You determine what moving forward looks like.
Not Sure If It’s Trafficking?
Human trafficking does not always look the way it is portrayed in movies or on television.
Exploitation may involve someone who:
- Controls where you go, who you see, or what you do
- Pressures or forces you to engage in sexual activity in exchange for money or something of value
- Takes or controls money you receive from commercial sex
- Uses threats, violence, manipulation, debt, drugs, housing, or other needs to control you
- Threatens you or someone you care about if you try to leave
- Uses a romantic relationship, friendship, or promises of a better life to exploit you
- Monitors your phone, social media, transportation, or movements
- Withholds identification documents or other belongings
- Makes you feel that leaving is impossible or unsafe
You may recognize several of these situations, only one, or none at all.
Help for Youth:
If you are under 18 and someone is exchanging—or attempting to exchange—sexual activity involving you for money, food, shelter, drugs, gifts, transportation, or anything else of value, you may be experiencing commercial sexual exploitation.
You deserve to be safe.
Olive works with youth experiencing or at risk of commercial sexual exploitation and collaborates with community partners to help coordinate appropriate support.
Concerned About Someone Else?
You do not have to be the person experiencing exploitation to contact Olive.
Parents, family members, friends, educators, service providers, and other concerned community members may reach out when they are worried about someone.
We can listen to your concerns, provide information, and help identify possible resources and next steps.
What Happens When You Contact Us?
Reaching out does not mean you have committed to receiving services.
Our staff will listen to what is happening, help identify immediate concerns, discuss available options, and determine whether Olive or one of our community partners may be able to assist.
You don’t need to have the right words.
You just need somewhere to start.