Who We Are
North County Lifeline’s Project LIFE (Living In Freedom From Exploitation) is an advocacy program that provides critical intervention services to individuals who have experienced sex or labor trafficking, domestic servitude, or commercial sexual exploitation. Project LIFE also provides trafficking prevention services for at-risk youth and trafficking awareness training for community members and professionals who may encounter victims.
What We Do
Victim Support
Project LIFE provides victims with initial trauma-informed emergency response, safety planning, intensive case management and behavioral health services.
- Emergency Services - Project LIFE provides responsive victim advocacy, crisis management, safety planning, emergency housing, residential coordination, basic needs, and attends to other urgent needs of newly identified victims.
- Intensive Case Management - Project LIFE case managers work with survivors in prioritizing needs and breaking them down into manageable steps to achieve self-reliance. Services may include transportation, housing, medical and dental care, advocacy, education, job training, employment assistance, life-skills training, and legal assistance through in-house programs and by referral to community partners.
- Peer Led Supportive Services - Project LIFE offers peer-led individual and group support services through in-house programs and by referral to community partners.
- Behavioral Health Services - Project Life offers behavioral health and substance abuse treatment in house or through community partners. Behavioral health services offered include trauma-specific treatment that address and heal complex trauma.
Community Services
- Trafficking Prevention - Project LIFE facilitates groups and workshops for youth addressing the behaviors that make them vulnerable to trafficking/commercial sexual exploitation, how recruiters operate, how to recognize and avoid gender-based violence, and how to get help for someone who may be at risk.
- Increased Victim Identification - Project LIFE conducts awareness trainings to educate professionals and the community members that this is a local issue that requires a local response. Trainings emphasize trends within San Diego County, what puts an individual at risk, recruitment tactics, victim identification, and how to get help for someone that may be experiencing trafficking.
