Crittenton’s InSight Program for Trafficked Youth

Crittenton’s national mission has a long historical commitment of helping trafficked women and girls break the cycle of continued exploitation. We are a part of a bigger family of agencies throughout the United States whose social services origins start on the streets of New York in 1883. Our founder, Charles Crittenton, was so moved by the plight of “wayward” women, many of them just young girls, that he founded the first Florence Crittenton Night Mission to rescue and restore these victims and to interrupt the cycle of poverty that often saw daughter follow mother to the streets.

Today, our trauma recovery and harm reduction treatment program known as Crittenton’s InSight Program, still serves commercially sexually exploited youth that have experienced a form of abuse and violence that is both unconscionable and unimaginable.

And as much as we’d all like a single, easy solution to this complex problem, there are no two trafficking victims whose stories – and needs – are identical. Their pathway to recovery will take many twists and turns, and requires a long-term commitment to working with them. For us the youth we serve are more than the sum of diagnoses, history, and labels. Our clients are all resilient and deserving of a bright future. They have hopes and dreams like the rest of us.