SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL

DOMESTIC PUBLIC EDUCATIONEvery victimized and vulnerable person deserves to be surrounded by an alert community, to have access to trained professionals, to be supported by strong laws and policies and to be offered shelter and service options. Shared Hope International (Shared Hope) strives to inspire a nation of informed activists to combat societal norms, misconceptions, and ignorance through awareness initiatives, training conferences, research, advocacy and collaborations and equipping stakeholders to restore and bring justice for survivors through the following programs:AMBASSADORS OF HOPE -- In FY2024, Shared Hope launched the White Van campaign which included a 90-second PSA and toolkit. Ambassadors were encouraged to include this in their awareness efforts for both adults and older youth. Since June 2024, the White Van PSA has been downloaded 564 times, and the toolkit has been downloaded 1,082 times. In FY2024, Shared Hope had 1,380 active Ambassadors, including 37 new Ambassadors coming on board during the year. Ambassadors continued to show tremendous passion within their communities and hosted 87 total events that reached nearly 3,000 community members during FY2024.FAITH in ACTION -- As a Christian non-profit that has led the fight against sex trafficking for nearly twenty-five years, Shared Hope is an ally of churches. Shared Hope's dedication to protecting children is a light in the darkness of this increasingly sexualized culture that permeates the Church, right along with the rest of society. While training and education is readily available in the secular world, Shared Hope has developed tools and resources to support the faith community in protecting its children. Shared Hope's Faith in Action program is a comprehensive initiative designed to equip faith communities with the tools and resources necessary to combat child sex trafficking through education, awareness and prevention. Central to this program is the Faith in Action Kit, which provides audience specific materials tailored to men, women, youth and faith leaders. In FY2024, Shared Hope continued its relationship with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), and mobilized 100+ Faith in Action Kits to benefit local faith communities. Shared Hope added supplemental materials to these DFPS kits and engaged in quarterly meetings with leadership staff to support their efforts in training their local churches.Shared Hope maintains a list of 1,108 churches that its staff communicates with on various levels, including 250 churches located in Shared Hopes home state of Washington, where its founder has resided for more than 50 years. In addition, Shared Hope is registered to be an exhibiting partner at the 2025 Be Bold for Jesus conference in Spokane, WA which will include 8,000 in person attendees. This event will promote Shared Hope's faith-based and awareness content to a large audience of believers and faith-leaders across the nation. Shared Hopes lead Ambassadors and Defenders will be exhibiting on behalf of Shared Hope at this event.DEFENDERS, USA -- The Defenders Take the Pledge Campaign launched in 2002 as a national men's awareness and action campaign. As of FY2024, 5,430 Defenders (24 added in FY2024) have taken the pledge and committed to take action in the fight against the commercial sex industry. Defenders reach into their communities to help men understand what trafficking is, what fuels it, and how they can be the force that reduces the demand for commercial sex.JuST (JUVENILE SEX TRAFFICKING) CONFERENCE Shared Hope's JuST Conference (Juvenile Sex Trafficking Conference) is a premier annual event dedicated to combating juvenile sex trafficking through education, collaboration, and survivor-centered advocacy. Since 2012, it has served as a vital platform for professionals across various sectorsincluding law enforcement, healthcare, social services, education, and policymakingto unite in the fight against child sex trafficking. The 2024 conference took place in Phoenix, Arizona. It featured a dynamic lineup of sessions designed to address the evolving challenges in the field of juvenile sex trafficking. Over 1,100 attendees from 48 states, DC, and Canada had the opportunity to engage with leading experts, participate in 63 hands-on workshops and network with peers committed to making a difference.SHARED HOPE ONLINE TRAINING CENTER - Launched in 2017, the Online Training Center houses a range of training opportunities for general interest to front line professionals. The types of trainings offered include free recorded training webinars, e-learning subscription style trainings, and by-request in-person and/or virtual presentations. Shared Hopes online center includes three (3) e-Learning trainings for a variety of stakeholders:(1) Exploited: Understanding Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking which offers a comprehensive understanding of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) to include information from victims, traffickers, common tactics, and online exploitation, as well as appropriate responses;(2) Respond: Treating Human Trafficking in the Field which is designed for any health care provider, social worker, counselor, or other service provider who may interact directly with survivors; and (3) VOI: Victim Offender Intersectionality which is designed for those working in the criminal legal system or anyone who wants to learn more about the complexity of victim-offender intersectionality (VOI), the occurrence of sex trafficking survivors facing criminalization under sex trafficking laws; covers the legal implications of VOI using case studies and expert field guidance to provide concrete recommendations for criminal justice stakeholders to make legal processes more victim-centered and trauma informed. In FY2024, these online courses brought in 1,058 total registrations. During FY2024, Shared Hope received 324 total webinar registrations and trained 1,067 individuals through both in-person and virtual training requests. This number does not include the 400+ hotel staff that were trained in Phoenix, AZ leading up to the annual JuST conference in October 2024. JuST RESPONSE COUNCIL -- To ground the research in practice and thought leadership, Shared Hope leads the JuST Response Council. Over thirty anti-trafficking stakeholders ranging from child welfare to law enforcement to service delivery from across the nation give their time and experience to Shared Hope to convene, train, publish industry leading position papers and provide thought leadership for the coming challenges in fighting child and youth sex trafficking. Shared Hope convenes the JuST Response Council 3-4 times per year. In FY2024, the Council completed its research to develop the foundation for shaping state and localities service responses to child and youth trafficking survivors. The Roadmap Report provides states and localities with a roadmap for implementing the 10 key principles of a just response (set out in the Just Response Council's Protective Response Model report, 2016). The Roadmap Report contains decision trees that help stakeholders walk through an ideal response and identify strategies for addressing gaps in their jurisdictions current response. These decision trees have the potential to be later developed into interactive tools through an online platform. FEDERAL AND STATE LEGISLATION -- The Report Cards on Child & Youth Sex Trafficking: State Action, National Change project grades the states and provides comprehensive analyses for each state of their laws and recommended improvements and additions designed to ensure a protective, victim-centered service and system response. Shared Hopes policy team helps with legislative drafting and advocacy to support survivor-centered legal reforms and to improve state grades. In FY2024, Shared Hope engaged in stakeholder calls, coalition engagement, and task force involvement in 21 states, provided training presentations in 14 states, provided technical assistance and/or created advocacy campaigns in 28 states, and presented at two national conferences.SHARED HOPE ACTION CENTER -- Engaged citizens are essential as Shared Hope supports legislators in drafting and passing laws that both protect victims of juvenile sex trafficking and hold offenders accountable. Shared Hope's Action Center offers individuals a chance to be engaged in a range of campaigns, from advocating for a specific bill to advocating for evergreen issue-based campaigns, such as the Just Like Me Campaign, striving to end the criminalization and incarceration of child sex trafficking victims. Since launching the Action Center in 2018, 20,713 individuals have engaged as advocates, initiating 54,080 individual legislator connections. In FY2024, the Just Like Me campaign engaged 535 advocates. Eleven state bill campaigns were launched and four of those bills were signed into law, including a Safe Harbor bill in Idaho.POLICY RESEARCH AND RESOURCES -- Share

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSShared Hope International (SHI) has worked around the world since 1998 to prevent, restore, and bring justice for victims of sex trafficking. Recognizing the intense trauma experienced by victims through the commercial sex industry, SHI has formed lasting partnerships with local organizations in three countries to fund five programs that offer holistic, long-term care to women and children. Each of these programs offers a survivor-informed model of care that focuses on counseling, empowerment, and healing. SHI's restoration programs known as Villages of Hope are developed and operated by local partners and address both immediate and long-term needs of each victim of trauma, exploitation, or trafficking. Restoration services include a holistic approach with residential facilities, medical and mental health care, education, job training, and economic development programs. Villages of Hope are safe communities that offer refuge and restoration to rescued victims of sexual slavery and their children. During FY2024, SHI funded partners in Nepal, India, and Jamaica.In India, SHI partners with an organization to run both a stationary and mobile HIV/Aids clinic in the heart of Mumbai's red-light district. Both clinics provide contact to more than 3,000 women and children in the infamous district every month, offering compassion, counseling, and life-saving medications to those who need help or who wish to flee the sex industry. The stationary clinic provides a haven for those women infected with HIV to receive proper testing, medicine, and nutrition. It is the only area clinic offering free assistance for treatment. The mobile clinic brings supplies and food into remote parts of the city, reaching those who may not be bold enough to visit the stationary clinic.The Women's Investment Network (WIN) program focuses on developing small businesses around the world that provide training and employment for the women in SHI's Villages of Hope. Studies show that providing victims with the skills and means of creating their own economic sustainability helps remove the risk of re-victimization found in areas of extreme poverty and exploitation. The residents receive leadership development and financial independence. During 2024, SHI's successful WIN program was active in India, Jamaica and Nepal. Training programs include sewing, jewelry, leather-making, bag-weaving, painting, henna designing, and embroidery.