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Love146

End Child Trafficking and Exploitation. Nothing Less.

New Haven, CT   |  https://www.love146.org/

Mission

Love146's mission is to journey alongside children impacted by trafficking today and prevent the trafficking of children tomorrow.

Ruling year info

2004

CEO & Co-founder

Rob Morris

Main address

PO Box 8266

New Haven, CT 06530 USA

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Formerly known as

Justice for Children International

EIN

20-1168284

NTEE code info

Children's and Youth Services (P30)

Human Service Organizations (P20)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.

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Communication

Blog

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Founded in 2002, Love146 works to end child trafficking and exploitation. In 2022, the International Labour Organization estimated that, at this present moment, over 3 million children are being victimized in sex trafficking and labor trafficking. We connect the dots to understand how vulnerability operates in the lives of children, and intervene both to care for survivors who have been harmed and ultimately to prevent harm from happening in the first place.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

US Prevention Education

Not a Number is an interactive 5 module child trafficking prevention curriculum designed to provide youth with information and skills in a manner that inspires them to make safe choices. Through open conversations, engaging activities, and the use of media, participants raise their awareness of human trafficking and exploitation. It moves beyond the traditional information deficit model, encouraging skill development. They learn to recognize recruitment tactics, understand vulnerabilities, and challenge harmful stereotypes. Youth also identify healthy support systems and practice navigating potential exploitative situations. The curriculum was developed for youth ages 12-18 and is inclusive of all genders, ethnicities, and backgrounds. While youth with high-risk indicators will particularly benefit, the program is designed to be implemented with and benefit all youth. Not a Number focuses on empowering youth through education and creating space for honest dialogue.

Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Adolescent boys
LGBTQ people
Adolescent girls
At-risk youth

In US Survivor Care, our Rapid Response meetings are designed for youth who are at very high-risk, suspected, or confirmed survivors of being trafficked. Depending on needs and risks that arise, most youth who receive Rapid Responses are referred for follow-up care, including some who move into Love146s Long-Term Survivor Care. Love146's Long-Term Survivor Care extends beyond immediate safety. Our specialized staff collaborate with youth as they build the futures they envision for themselves futures free from exploitation. We support survivors' holistic well-being, addressing needs like food, housing, healthcare, therapy, education, relationships, safety- planning, and navigating justice and other government systems. We incorporate activities and alternative therapies that help kids heal, build self-esteem, and just be a child: Things like music and pottery lessons, art and equine therapy, concerts, and outdoor adventures.

Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Ethnic and racial groups
Victims of crime and abuse
At-risk youth
Caregivers

Love146 provides international survivor care in the Philippines, focusing on providing a safe living space and holistic services for child survivors of sex trafficking. The program offers two safe homes-- The Round Home and The White Home. We provide long-term, child-centered, therapeutic services for these youth, with the ultimate goal of reintegrating them into their family and community. The program employs patience and creativity while working with hurting children, including regular counseling, activities to release their energy, lessons in art and music, constant praise for good behavior and talent, job counseling, and affirmation of their potential for good. All of these tools can facilitate growth and healing in children, and can help them realize the other options that exist for their lives.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
People of Southeast Asian descent
Victims of crime and abuse

Our Survivor Care and Prevention Education programs are about directly reaching children who may be affected by trafficking. But many more people in a community can play a role in helping stop child trafficking and exploitation. Stakeholders are needed in every community in order to ensure were building a safer world for children. Love146 strives to set a big table in order to foster both collaborations and the collective will to end child trafficking. We have resources, professional trainings, and outreach efforts that have supported many communities, including businesses, policymakers, service providers, caregivers, and the anti-trafficking field itself.

Population(s) Served
Adults

Where we work

Accreditations

Charity Navigator 2023

Better Business Bureau 2023

Awards

Life and Liberty Award for Rob Morris 2022

New Hampshire Supreme Court Society

Affiliations & memberships

U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services’ National Advisory Committee on Sex Trafficking of Children 2021

Shared Hope’s JuST Response Council 2021

Connecticut Trafficking in Persons Council 2021

Twitter Trust & Safety Council 2021

CT Task Force to Study Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children on the Internet 2022

U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services' Human Trafficking Leadership Academy 2021

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Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Average number of dollars given by new donors

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Increasing

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Our work is achieved through the power of relationships and collaboration, listening to those with lived experience and diverse backgrounds, scaling proven practices, and challenging the systems that leave children vulnerable. Our prevention and survivor care work has impacted more than 70,000 young people. Our core commitment is to do what is best for children.

Strategic Priority 1: Continue to drive growth across Love146’s continuum of prevention training and adopt a 2- generation model for survivor care. Our goal would be to continue to move states along Love146’s prevention education continuum, including moving 3 states into state saturation and 3 states into training of trainers - and deepen survivor care by expanding our 2-generational care approach.

Strategic Priority 2: Engage in rigorous evaluation of programs. Our goal would be to complete the evaluation of our U.S. Prevention Education Program and undertake evaluation of U.S. Survivor Care Program.

Strategic Priority 3: Pursue broad based systems change through policy advocacy and community activism. Our goal would be to establish a policy advocacy program and invest in community activism.

Love146 has demonstrated expertise in trafficking prevention and Survivor Care. We have deepened and fostered new partnerships with local, state and federal governments. These partnerships have led to reaching more children throughout the US with our Prevention programs and Survivor Care. We expect further expansion in the next 3-5 years as a result of these partnerships. Key to achieving our goals are our core values, including collaboration, innovation, and perseverance. As specialists, we recognize that we are more effective when we collaborate with other specialists; as innovators, we imagine, develop, tweak, grow, and evolve solutions that work. Finally, we are undaunted. Our story isn't just about victories, triumphs, and fairytale endings — it's about not giving up. We embrace stories that never truly end: that have complexity, struggle, beauty, and humanity.

Love146 has developed tools for tracking our impact. We have developed an Internet-based app for tracking results of our Not a Number Prevention Education trainings, and we have developed an organizational impact report that tracks Love146 performance, including various metrics related to our Survivor Care programs. These results can be found in our Annual Report, and through Impact Reports that can be found on our website. Love146 has reached 3,616 children by Survivor Care; 63,834 children by Prevention and Community Education; and 1,721 professionals have been certified in Not a Number.

Over the next 5 years, the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center will be conducting outcome evaluations of Love146's Prevention Education Curriculum Not a Number and Love146's Long-Term Survivor Care Services. These evaluations are being funded with support from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These evaluations are part of Love146's commitment to developing outcome-focused solutions.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Love146

Board of directors
as of 01/18/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Sarah Jakiel

Girls First Fund

Term: 2023 - 2026

Alysia Nicole Harris

Scalawag

Desirea Stott-Rodgers

Desirea Still Photography

Rob Morris

Love146, Ex Officio Member

Sarah Jakiel

Girls First Fund

Nathan Earl

Giant Slayer Consulting

Virginia Bierne

Nikki Kerman

Venable’s Nonprofit Organizations and Transactional Tax groups

Maggie Lee

Human Trafficking Legal Center

Kyle Webb

S&P Global

Reina Tschoe

Dr. Glynis King Harrell

The Links Inc.

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 1/9/2024
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Male, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight
Disability status
Decline to state

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

Disability

Equity strategies

Last updated: 03/04/2021

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
  • We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
  • We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.