This year we are celebrating Children of the Night’s 30th Anniversary. It seems like yesterday that I let a 13 year old boy sleep on my sofa in my two bedroom apartment because there was no place for him. I never planned on establishing an internationally recognized program to rescue America’s children from the ravages of prostitution. Since that time over 10,000 children have been part of my life.
Today the “sex trafficking of domestic children” is big news and websites are opening all over the United States. The federal government has just started offering money to help these desperate children.
Children of the Night has 24 of the 39 beds in the United States available for children who have been forced to prostitute for food to eat and a place to sleep.
While we have trained thousands of professionals and students, and hundreds of NGO’s we believe there are more cost effective means of training a greater number of people, minimizing travel expense and labor costs associated with trainings.
In response to requests from all over the United States and in honor of our 30th Anniversary we will offer webinars and training materials on “how to” provide hotline services including rescue from pimps, drug overdose intervention, interactions and cooperation with law enforcement, intake screening, intake and needs and services assessments for America’s children who have been forced to work as prostitutes on our streets and in our truck stops.
Our first webinar will feature children who were forced to work as prostitutes re-enact their escapes from pimps who dominated them on the streets and truck stops as new staff attempt to carry out their 2 days of classroom training to intervene in the lives of these children, involve the police and perform life saving techniques.
This webinar will be available on our website for $3000. Accompanying training manuals will be available for an additional fee. Nearly 300 pages of supplemental materials including organizational charts, job descriptions, budgets, policies, procedures and supporting case management materials will also be available via our website.
We have partnered with a software company to duplicate our computer based service driven program to be offered to other non-profits working in this area. Our customized system provides scripts to rescue children from pimps, provide rape and drug overdose intervention, involve the police and secure medical help and shelter. Additionally, our software program will provide quick and easy access to date for reporting to the federal and state governments as required for grant reports.
Case management and life plans that provide for long term placement of these desperate children who require help for many years will also be available.
Children of the Night maintains copyrights and trademarks on all of our materials. We have developed these materials over the past 30 years and trust these will be income generating products to help us support our programs.
We sincerely want to offer our expertise in the development of programs for America’s children who have been victimized by prostitution.
Watch our website for more announcements and sign up now to be notified of our webinars.
