We are a community                                 

    of survivors     

and allies

Our Mission

Safety Compass exists to extend relentless hope and navigational support for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Our team of advocates provide an open door for survivors to take the first steps in the healing process.

We believe that the best way to extend compassion for those we serve is by respecting them.

We respect survivor's coping-skills, strengths, and personal insights as guidance for how best to support them. We do not use terms like "rescue" for our work or "broken" when referring to survivors. Instead we use terms like "encouragement" when we talk about our professional goals and "resilience" when we describe the survivors we serve.

We strive to offer a safe and supportive network of people to uplift those directly impacted by the sex-industry, as well as their loved ones.

Our Commitment to Serving All

Safety Compass believes that everyone who might benefit from our services deserves to feel a sense of belonging, regardless of race, ethnicity, identity, orientation, age, disability, spiritual practice, or creed. We are committed to our own organizational learning, development, and accountability as agents of kindness, builders of community, and as collaborators with our partner agencies as we work for increasing realization of these goals, and decrease barriers to accessing services.

Many of the individuals we serve are disproportionately impacted by systems of inequality, oppression, and power imbalances, and the intersection of one or more identity categories.  We are committed to actively working towards accessible and equitable service delivery, and will hold ourselves accountable in the following ways:

  • We commit to ongoing self-reflection, as individuals and organizationally-- to challenging ourselves and holding ourselves accountable in practice 

  • We will continue to learn, with humility, and to provide related and intersectional training to staff and volunteers regularly

  • We will name, address, and/or interrupt oppression whenever it is observed to the extent possible

  • We will prioritize the lived experience, voices, and feedback of survivors we serve from all communities, and utilize this to adjust policies and programming to better serve them

  • We will work intentionally to increase and value diversity in our staff and board membership through our recruitment and hiring processes with a goal of enriching our operations with the wisdom of various life experiences, backgrounds, and identities. 

What We Offer

  • Trauma-informed & survivor-informed care

    We offer support for any survivor of the sex industry under age 25 regardless of whether they are still in "the life" or not, regardless of what type of exploitation they experienced. We do not discriminate based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, or immigration status.

  • A highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach

    We are committed to collaboration with law enforcement and social services providers, believing collaboration is the most effective method to achieving criminal and social justice.

  • Hope filled, strengths-based services

    We assertively engage with survivors for as long as they want our services, believing in their inherent wisdom to make choices for themselves, always holding out hope for a safer future for them. We respect each survivors’ ability to know what they need and when they are ready.

Our Work