24-Hour Crisis Hotline: 904-284-0061

Are you a survivor of

Human Trafficking?

Each year innocent men, women and children are exploited in human trafficking.

Human Trafficking Services are provided by trained certified advocates

24-hour helpline: A 24/7 helpline to provide immediate crisis intervention.  A trained advocate will answer to assist your needs.  All calls are confidential with non-judgmental support. 904-284-0061

Crisis Intervention & Safety Planning: A prompt response by a trained advocate, which provides education of trauma and how to safety plan around your unique situation.

Information and Referrals: The trained advocate will respond promptly and will provide information and referrals if necessary.  Information about resources in the community, emergency shelter, court accompaniment, and victim’s compensation is available.

Advocate or Accompaniment: The advocate or accompaniment is the individual help to the survivor for legal or medical needs: ongoing support for a forensic exam, including during the exam, law enforcement interviews, and the criminal justice system, and any questions or the survivor may have.

System Coordination: Quigley House will provide system coordination for the survivors, by establishing a relationship with other agencies to best support survivors. 

Medical Intervention/Forensic Evidence Collection: The on-call advocates are available 24/7 for survivors 18-years-of-age or older who need therapeutic mediation and forensic evidence collection.  Examinations will be administered in a place and fashion that protects the survivor from re-victimization and follow the Attorney General’s Protocol through the chain of custody rules. 

Common Trafficking Indicators

  • Victim does not have ID or travel documents

  • Victim has been coached in talking to law enforcement and immigration officials

  • Victim is in forced labor situation or sex trade

  • Victim’s salary is garnished to pay off smuggling fees

  • Victim is threatened with deportation or arrest

  • Victim has been harmed or denied food, water, sleep, or medical care

Trafficking vs. Smuggling

Human Trafficking is defined as:

  • sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to preform such act is younger than 18

  • Or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.

Information provided by www.dhs.gov/humantrafficking

Human Smuggling is defined as:

  • the importation of people into the United States involving deliberate evasion of immigration laws. This offense includes bringing illegal aliens into the country, as well as the unlawful transportation and harboring of aliens already in the united states.

Resources for Human Trafficking and Immigrants

Need help relocating? See if you qualify for Victim’s Compensation Relocation.

We have several outreach advocates that are available to assist with Victim’s Compensation Relocation. Please click the learn more to see what the qualifications are.