COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS Enhanced Victim Services Transitional Program

Covenant House New Orleans (CHNO) proposes to expand its current victim services program for survivors of human trafficking and sexual assault with the implementation of an enhanced therapeutic transitional program. The program will be dedicated to young female adult (ages 18-24) survivors and those with children that require more intensive care and victim support services. This program will address many of the gaps in services for survivors in the Greater New Orleans area. Programs that address the deep complexities and unique challenges facing survivors are limited, particularly those that provide transitional services to address the multitude and emergence of issues that plague our young adult female victims with children. The proposed Enhanced Victim Services Transitional Program (EVSTP) will provide intensive, therapeutic and trauma-informed specialty care and supportive services to victims of human trafficking and sexual assault that facilitate healing from their poly-trauma, promotes social growth and stability, and fosters financial independence, and long-term recovery. The program will provide adult survivors and those with children a safe transitional living environment with comprehensive and intensive victim support services. EVSTP will be implemented with best practiced total survivors care, including: intensive, individualized case management that combines mental health, education, employment, healthy living, life skills, social connectedness, and self-sufficiency to foster healing and long-term self-sufficiency. Immediate, accessible supports in an environment that promotes safety, trust and builds healthy relationships is critical to dispel further traumatization, and is an essential component to holistic victim-centered and trauma-informed care.