- ITEMP provides long-term housing to victims all victims.
- Children are placed with well supervised foster families.
- Adults are placed with host families or provided with independent living assistance.
- All victims require some period of protective shelter.
Legal Advocacy
- ITEMP Legal Aid ensures the rights of the victim are protected.
- Far too often victim's rights are trampled in an attempt to prosecute traffickers.
- The victim's needs are ITEMP's first priority.
- ITEMP Legal Aid also provides assistance in obtaining short-term as well as long-term visas.
- If applicable, Legal Aid can assist in the claiming of refugee status.
-In the case of children, ITEMP Legal Aid can will help to establish temporary and/or long-term legal guardianship.
Medical & Psychological Care
- Upon initial contact, all victims are given a medical evaluation. All critical patients are given immediate care in order to ensure their survival.
- Common medical problems include: malnutrition, bruising, respitory and digestive problems, STD's (including HIV/AIDS), and much more...
- If any long-term medical issues are discovered, the necessary treatments regiment is established.
- The patient is given all the medical attention necessary to ensure their recovery.
- Upon initial contact, all victims are given a psychological evaluation.
- Common psychological problems include: depression, inabilbity to form trusting relationships, uncontroable rage, PTSD, and much more...
-Once the victim's metal state is evaluated, the necessary treatments regiment is established.
- The victim is given thenecessary psycholigcal attention in order for them to live a normal life.
Educational and Vocational Training
Education is the most critical step to preventing revictimization. Without an education the victims have nothing to sell other than their bodies. They will often be forced back into the situations from which they escaped because they have not been given an alternative.
By providing the victims with an education, they will have a series of skill with which they can earn a living.
All victims are enrolled in school according to their last completed grade level. If they are under the age of 14, they are placed at the Asoc. Nuestros Ahijados' Dreamer Center. Here they will receive a top notch education, while interacting with other children. This interaction helps the victims reestablish a sense of belonging, community, trust, and self worth.
If the victims are 14+, they are enrolled at the Asoc. Nuestros Ahijados' Scheel Center. The facility educates street kids that were forced to dropout of school. Many have only 1-2 years of formal schooling, so the Scheel Center staff uses an accelerated program in order to help the students catch up to their peers.
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