Dahlias Hope Non Profit Inc

We aim to provide aftercare services to survivors of sex trafficking, including emergency housing, resources for medical or dental care, clinical therapy, educational or vocational training and life skills training- so that survivors may heal from their trauma and be able to succesfully re-enter society. Dahlia's Hope is the first organization in Utah that provides this kind of comprehensive aftercare for survivors, and one of the few in the United States.

Our organizational goals to accomplish this are to:
1) Increase organizational capacity to serve survivors
2) Increase the breadth and quality of services provided
3) Be good financial stewards of the funds we receive

1) We will increase organizational capacity by identifying and hiring critical administrative and clinical therapy staff for all of our programs to be fully staffed and available.

2) We will increase the breadth and quality of services by expanding the type of program and resources avaialble to survivors, and setting and tracking milestones of survivor progress in our programs.

3) We will be good financial stewards by keeping our administrative costs to under 20% of our annual budget, and by encouraging volunteerism by tracking and reporting on number of volunteers and volunteer hours annually.

In 2021 we were able to hire critical staff to scale Dahlia's Hope to a full time operation, including a full time Chief Operations Officer, and a full time clinical director. With clinical therapist, recreational therapist, theraputic animal services, resources for vocational and educational services, emergency housing and ability to provide access to medical and dental services, Dahlia's Hope has been successful in being a full-service aftercare provider for survivors. We also have a full-time volunteer coordinator to help with service hours, a full time clinical program director to oversee the work of 5 clinical therapists, and a farm manager to oversee the therapy animals, and an administrative and volunteer staff to manage events, website, fundraising, finances and social media/marketing.

Across 2019, 2020 and 2021 we increased our capacity to serve survivors by ten fold. We started with 3 survivors in 2019 and are now above 30 survivors served.

Our services began as emergency housing in 2019. They have since expanded to give access to medical and dental resources, vocational and job training, educational programs, and individual, group therapy and recreational therapy in 2020 and 2021.

Our volunteer hours have been over 4000 hours the last 2 years, with over 400 volunteers each year.
From the time we've been collecting financial data, our overhead costs have remained under 13% of our total budget.

Our first 3 years of existence have been critical growth and capacity building years. Now in our 4th year, we are equipped to deepen and maintain the growth we've seen.