The Foundation United

The Foundation United (formerly The Selah Way Foundation) aims to end sex trafficking and its root of childhood sexual abuse in our lifetime by creating system change domestically and globally.

The Prevention Pillar provides entire school districts, including all faculty/staff and K-12th graders with SPEAK UP, a unique train-the-trainer model with proven outcomes to prevent children from exploitation. We also offer The Cool Aunt Series, a unique multi-media experience that walks teens and parents through the STREAMS of Influence - the 7 risk factors that lead to sex trafficking: Survival, Trafficker, Recruiter, Environment, Abuse, Media, and Solicitation. REAL TALK is a catalytic tool which awakens and empowers the Church with prevention curriculum and more for kindergarten through leadership.
The Protection Pillar, comprised of Global Strategic Operatives and the National Training Cadre, trains the front lines of the criminal justice system and healthcare systems to recognize this crime and rescue survivors.
The Policy Pillar works through Awareness, Advocacy and scaleable training. We educate individuals around the globe on this issue and how to collaboratively eradicate it. We advocate for key legislation which aims to systemically fight sex trafficking, exploitation and abuse, and partner with the Parliamentary Intelligence Security Forum Task Force on Human Trafficking to connect world leaders with scalable solutions. We also empower individuals to raise awareness and connect with system leaders in their communities to bring training and create real change to fight sex trafficking, abuse and exploitation.
Until we completely eradicate sex trafficking and exploitation, we support vetted after-care and safe housing programs for survivors. Our heart is to end this issue by getting to the root and changing systems, so that, one day, there is no longer a need for residential programs.

Our methodology bases funding where it is most needed and does not support full-scale, ongoing operations, administration, and salaries. The goal of the Foundation is to teach others how to fish rather than create ongoing dependency. A benefit of the Foundation's structure allows many organizations to operate with shared resources. We create an atmosphere of collaboration, not of competition between organizations. This provides for the most significant impact possible.​

The beauty of the initiatives under the Foundation is that we have the ability to share resources. Some organizations have their own 501c3 while others have chosen to forego theirs. This allows all to unite and leverage resources to significantly reduce back-office costs, such as marketing, development, accounting, and operations. This method means more money goes directly to life saving programs. Some of our Pillar partners are solely initiatives of the foundation, such as the National Training Cadre and the S.P.E.A.K. UP Train-The-Trainer Prevention Model.
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We also provide grants to highly credible and vetted organizations on an annual basis on a smaller scale.nocence.

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The Foundation United became incorporated in 2018, based upon ten years of experience of our Founder, Elizabeth Melendez Fisher Good, leading in the domestic anti-sex trafficking. The Foundation United has an innovative approach to delivering scalable solutions to a complicated and ever-evolving issue. It also creates an opportunity for industry-leaders, and vetted organizations doing similar work, to maximize their impact by leveraging shared resources and synergies. Today, The Foundation United's three Pillars are creating an international change with an unparalleled approach to moving the needle forward to eradicate sex trafficking, abuse and exploitation.

The Foundation has accomplished unprecedented progress in this movement by scaling the globe with partnerships and programs which create systemic change.

Under our Protection Pillar,Global Strategic Operatives has trained healthcare systems in:
U.S.A.:
Baptist Health
Advocate Aurora Health
Hackensack Meridian Health
Baylor Harris Health
RWJ Barnabas Health
Northwell Health
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Internationally:
Poland
Romania
Australia
Ireland
Cambodia
Thailand
India
Nigeria
Ethiopia
Philippines
Italy
Albania

Our National Training Cadre has trained the Criminal Justice system (over 100 agencies) in states throughout the U.S. in dark web, illicit massage businesses, identifying victims, and building a successful case against traffickers and more.

Under our Prevention Pillar we have accomplished this by:
Creating measurable outcomes with our University Research Partner, St. Louise University
SPEAK UP Prevention Program is available to schools internationally and throughout the U.S.
Equipping families at home, as well as over 50,000 youth in the child welfare system with prevention education through The Cool Aunt Series
Launching REAL TALK for the Church and Christian organizations in the U.S. and internationally

Under our Provision Pillar we have accomplished this by:
Partnering with GSO domestically to provide safe homes for survivors of sex trafficking in transformed rectories and convents throughout the U.S.
Supporting restorative care and safe housing for survivors internationally