Advocating for the health and safety of prostitutes
Empowering prostitutes who would like to leave
Providing support and access to resources (brokering)
Researching new ways to help population
Lobbying for policy changes that support population

�I had been going to juvenile halls, jails, psychiatric hospitals, emergency rooms and drug treatment programs since I was 12. No one ever asked me about my life, about prostitution, being beaten, raped or kidnapped. I was just a whore, a criminal. How could I get out? No one ever treated me like a person. No one asked me if I hurt or why. I experienced sexual abuse including child prostitution� I had been brutally assaulted� I had been homeless� I suffered severe symptoms of PTSD and I desperately wanted to get out of prostitution and a life that made no sense to me.� Norma Hotaling, sex trafficking survivor (p. 14)
"People say it's a victimless crime, but what's victimless about it? You got a girl beat up or drugged into becoming a prostitute, or who did it because her mom was a prostitute. There are drug debts� Most girls aren't happy about what they do. And pimps beat them up if they don't make enough. Is it really victimless?" Sgt. Anthony Bejaran, Stanislaus County, California, Sheriff's Department (p. 15)