Unbound Now

Unbound Now envisions a world where every community is free from human trafficking.

Unbound Now HQ provides capacity building and strategic oversight to all Unbound Now locations worldwide. In this effort, Unbound Now launches new Unbound Now locations in the U.S. and overseas as separate organizations, and walks alongside those organizations to build sustainable programs to bring freedom to their communities.

Unbound Now local offices provide 24/7 crisis response and ongoing case management and support for survivors, participating in case staffing and coordinating with law enforcement and prosecutors on investigations. Unbound Now advocates strengthen victim restoration by providing survivor-centered, trauma-informed advocacy for survivors of trafficking. They respond to emotional and physical needs, assisting survivors, and as appropriate their families, in stabilizing their lives after victimization and recovery. Unbound Now advocates provide relational, trust-based advocacy, encouraging personal growth and pursuit of dreams and goals. Advocates assist in safety planning, completing crime victims' compensation applications, goal-setting, court and medical accompaniment, transportation to needed services, birthday and graduation celebrations, and wraparound services and support.

Unbound Now's youth prevention programs partner with schools, juvenile detention centers, and other youth-serving organizations to empower students to stay safe from trafficking and exploitation. Unbound Now provides one-time presentations, 5-week series, and ongoing weekly outreach groups. When youth disclose victimization following these trainings, Unbound Now advocates respond and walk alongside them in their journeys toward healing and restoration.

Unbound Now also provides training to equip all professionals to use their skills to identify and serve victims of human trafficking both in-person and online on-demand.

Unbound Now local offices also leads various coalitions, multi-disciplinary task forces of community stakeholders working together to prevent, identify and prosecute human trafficking cases and serve survivors.

Unbound Now was founded in 2012 with the mission of activating local communities to fight human trafficking through prevention & awareness, professional training and survivor advocacy. In 2012, Unbound Now launched programs in all service areas with one full-time and two-part time staff. Since then, Unbound Now has grown to a team of 75 staff across the world.

Additionally, Unbound Now `has received multiple federal and state grants that have brought significant funding to support survivor service programs for youth and adults. Unbound Now has a diverse array of funding sources including generous support from individual donors and foundations.

Our survivor advocacy teams are led by professionals with backgrounds in social work including multiple Licensed Master Social Workers, who lead teams of advocates in providing 24/7 crisis response and ongoing advocacy services for survivors of human trafficking.

Since 2012, Unbound Now has sustained continuous presence in providing prevention education to at-risk youth, awareness presentations to community members and professional training to key professionals like school personnel and educators. Unbound Now has a team of staff across offices that contribute to these areas.

Additionally, Unbound Now offices train thousands of professionals each year in properly identifying victims of human trafficking and knowing how to respond, through both in-person and on-demand online trainings. Unbound Now focuses on those professionals who may stand in the gap between a victim and their trafficker, training law enforcement, medical professionals, business owners, school faculty and staff, bus and taxi drivers and more.

Since Unbound Now's founding in 2012 they have launched 6 offices in the United States and 4 offices internationally in Mongolia, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Poland. Unbound Now offices in the United States maintain 24/7 crisis response services, making Unbound Now advocates often the first to arrive on the scene when a survivor contacts our hotline.

Additionally, Unbound Now has opened a 24/7 drop-in center in North Texas, providing a place to rest, meals, shower facilities, safety, trauma, counseling, and referral for services for youth up through age 22. Open 24/7 and with a street reputation such that youth on the street take a chance on visiting, the drop-in center provides an open door for a population that has historically been difficult to reach. It is also available as a much needed short-term resting place for survivors recovered from trafficking.

In 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Unbound Now made professional and community trainings available online on-demand and at request. As a result thousands of professionals across fields including medicine and hospitality have been trained each year on how to identify and respond appropriately to trafficking survivors. We also launched an office in Poland in response to the war in the Ukraine providing services at the borders where trafficking increased exponentially.

In 2022, Unbound Now opened The Reagan, a short term, specialized, residential placement for girls ages 12-17 who have been sexually exploited in Waco, Texas. We also launched offices in Austin, TX and Tyler, TX in 2022.