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Philadelphia Youth Drop-in Center Consultant 🔥


About the Program

The strategic initiative to reduce sex trafficking (SI-ST) in 25 U.S. cities has three program focus areas: “Shift legal accountability for trafficking,” “change norms around sex buying,” and “expand social safety nets for vulnerable populations.

 About the Project

The safety net expansion initiative (SNEI) is an upstream prevention program of the SI-ST designed to prevent trafficking before it happens. The project is currently being implemented in nine cities across the country. The program implementation involves engaging local stakeholders in four broad categories - survivor leaders; and stakeholders working - in organization within the anti-trafficking movement, with vulnerable populations such as immigrants and youths, and in intersecting areas such as housing and employment. The SNEI engaged stakeholders through individual interviews and focus group discussions in discussions on city specific vulnerable populations, possible solutions to vulnerability factors, tools needed for solutions, existing assets with potentials, and stakeholders to engage to expand social safety nets in the city. Polaris provides support on one solution directly and others indirectly.

Stakeholders in Philadelphia identified a youth drop-in center as a pressing need that can reduce the risk of vulnerable youth to trafficking. Our findings indicate that the community may not have an immediate need to establish a new youth drop-in center since Redeemed For A Cause, a local stakeholder, has a Youth Drop-in Center. Despite the need for a youth drop-in center, the existing facility is not being adequately utilized. This project will examine how the existing youth drop-in center can be an operational, useful resource in Philadelphia. 

About the Position

The consultant is local to Philadelphia. Their task is to study the existing youth drop-in center and produce a report that can guide stakeholders with having an operational youth drop-in center.

 Specific Responsibilities

  • Provide a profile of the existing youth drop-in center
  • Where is it located, and how can it be accessed? Who can be served at the center? What services are available currently? What services can it potentially provide? What are the existing and needed amenities? 
  • Why is the facility currently not being utilized/ being underutilized?
  • What are the major agencies that can provide referrals to the center?
  • Why don’t they provide referrals currently?
  • What is needed to make them provide referrals?

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