The Innocent Justice Foundation
When we support the heroes, they can save more children.
Mission
The Innocent Justice Foundation is 501(c)(3) charitable organization working to help eradicate child sexual exploitation by offering mental health and wellness training and resources to support justice and other professionals exposed to child exploitation material in the work environment, and by educating the public about the epidemic of child exploitation in the United States. Our belief is that only through heightened public awareness and action, active policymakers and fully equipped law enforcement units can we meet the challenge of rescuing victims, stopping predators, and slowing the astronomical pace of the production of child exploitation material, which document crime scenes and instigate further abuse of children.
Ruling year
2008
President & CEO
Ms. Beth Medina
Main address
2240 Encinitas Blvd. Suite D4
Encinitas, CA 92024 USA
EIN
77-0709388
NTEE code
Public, Society Benefit - Multipurpose and Other N.E.C. (W99)
Management & Technical Assistance (F02)
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (B01)
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Our programs
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The Innocent Justice Foundation
The Innocent Justice Foundation (TIJF) supports heroes in your community who are doing the brave and hard work of protecting us. People in helping roles are often profoundly affected by their exposure to indirect trauma. These heroes pay an emotional cost for their service and we help them mitigate the vicarious trauma they endure.
TIJF assists individuals, teams and corporate structures to develop resilience in the face of vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress and burnout. They may accumulate and carry exposure to trauma-including images, sounds and specific haunting details. Having strong structures in the helping sector is paramount to increase safety for our community.
Our focus has been training members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program (a national network of 61 coordinated task forces representing over 4,500 federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies).
Attending these trainings are law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, child advocacy workers, social workers, digital forensic investigators, parole personnel, etc.
We are broadening our reach! Our aim is to train the following heroes: first responders, crisis management teams, fire, medical, school and 911 personnel, clergy, hospice workers, mental health professionals, and more...
Public Education
We educate the public about child sexual exploitation and abuse online, the increase in predatory behavior online, and how to help keep children safe.
SHIFT: Suporting Heroes in mental health Foundational Training
We offer mental health and wellness training nationwide to law enforcement, justice and affiliates professionals exposed to child exploitation material at work.
Helping Advocates Rebound from Trauma -HART
HART is a mental health and wellness program that focuses on supporting professionals who work in roles that expose them to traumatic materials and events, and the trauma of others.
Helping Advocates Rebound from Trauma is a training in vicarious trauma mitigation, offering an explanation of how the brain works, and tools and techniques to identify and mitigate the symptoms of vicarious trauma. We believe that when we support our community heroes, they can save more children, help more victims, and build stronger communities. Who might benefit from this program? Law enforcement, fire and rescue personnel, social service providers, those working in victim services, child advocates, and those in other “helping” professions.
The program includes the following topics:
What is vicarious trauma?
Definitions of trauma responses
Identifying signs and symptoms of trauma
Tools and techniques for building resilience
Application of coping skills
Incorporation of team and family support
Where we work
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Our Sustainable Development Goals
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How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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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 strengthen relationships with the people we serve,
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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 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
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, we are exploring new ways to collect feedback to encourage more participation
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The Innocent Justice Foundation
Board of directorsas of 03/02/2022
Katie Alexander
The Occupational Therapy Institute
Term: 2018 -
Katie Alexander
Christy Lundy
Pinomontti/Lundy Group
Stacey Levenson
Levinson & Levison
Ray Valenzuela
Windermere Homes & Estates
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