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Help keep trafficked and vulnerable children visible after the world stops looking.

Your support helps fund awareness campaigns, visibility efforts, outreach, and continued advocacy.

Every year children disappear into trafficking, coercion, and exploitation while public attention fades around them.

Safe Horizons exists to keep looking after the world moves on.

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501(c)(3)
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION
TAX-EXEMPT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION
THE REALITY

Unaccompanied children remain vulnerable long after entering the system.
Oversight reports continue to identify gaps in safety, screening, and follow-up.

213,000+

unaccompanied children were released from ORR care to sponsors in the United States during fiscal years 2023 and 2024.

Source: U.S. HHS Office of Inspector General ↗
~2,000

potential child-safety concerns were reported to ORR's National Call Center during the first six months of 2024 alone.

Source: U.S. HHS Office of Inspector General ↗
16%

of reviewed children's case files lacked documentation showing that one or more required sponsor safety checks were conducted.

Source: U.S. HHS Office of Inspector General ↗
ABOUT THE DATA

Statistics shown above are drawn from published oversight findings of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. Figures represent the specific populations and review periods described in the cited reports.

Public attention disappears in days.

The need to protect vulnerable children doesn't.

WHY THEY GET MISSED

Some vulnerable children never reach traditional systems.

Not because they do not need help. Because the people exploiting them often control the very things required to ask for it.

Fear

Fear of punishment, retaliation, deportation, or not being believed.

Coercion

Manipulation can make a child feel trapped even when no locked door exists.

Language Barriers

A child who cannot explain what is happening may never be properly seen.

Isolation

Trafficking survives when a child is cut off from safe adults and trusted help.

Dependency

When food, shelter, transportation, or documents are controlled, silence becomes survival.

Threats

Some children stay silent because someone has made the cost of speaking feel worse than the abuse.

The system cannot help a child it never sees.

Safe Horizons exists to close that gap through proactive outreach, survivor-informed trust, and service connection before silence becomes permanent.

THIS IS NOT HAPPENING SOMEWHERE ELSE.
The Numbers Most People Scroll Past
Hundreds of thousands of children are reported missing in the United States every year. Many trafficking victims are first labeled as “runaways” before exploitation is ever identified. Tens of thousands of children disappear from foster care and state systems annually. Children are bought, sold, manipulated, transported, and exploited every single day. Some victims are recovered within hours. Others are never found. Online grooming and child exploitation continue to rise at alarming rates. Trafficking does not require crossing a border. It happens in neighborhoods, schools, hotels, and homes. The average age many victims are first targeted is younger than most people want to believe. Hundreds of thousands of children are reported missing in the United States every year. Many trafficking victims are first labeled as “runaways” before exploitation is ever identified. Tens of thousands of children disappear from foster care and state systems annually. Children are bought, sold, manipulated, transported, and exploited every single day. Some victims are recovered within hours. Others are never found. Online grooming and child exploitation continue to rise at alarming rates. Trafficking does not require crossing a border. It happens in neighborhoods, schools, hotels, and homes. The average age many victims are first targeted is younger than most people want to believe.
HOW YOUR DONATION HELPS

Your donation does not disappear into a vague cause. It turns into direct action.

Every dollar helps Safe Horizons push vulnerable children back into visibility through outreach, awareness, survivor-informed engagement, and connection to real support.

01

Funds Outreach Efforts

Helps support proactive outreach focused on children and young people at risk of trafficking, isolation, and exploitation.

02

Builds Trust

Supports survivor-informed engagement designed for individuals who may be too afraid, controlled, or isolated to ask for help.

03

Connects Resources

Helps connect vulnerable children and young adults to housing, legal support, counseling, stabilization, and safety resources.

04

Expands Awareness

Funds campaigns that keep trafficking risks, warning signs, and vulnerable cases in front of communities before attention fades.

05

Strengthens Partnerships

Helps build referral pathways with providers, advocates, community organizations, and support networks already positioned to help.

06

Educates Communities

Supports practical education that helps people recognize coercion, exploitation, trafficking indicators, and unsafe situations sooner.

Your donation becomes visibility.

Visibility becomes a chance to intervene.

SURVIVOR-LED INITIATIVE

Built by survivors. Led with experience.

Safe Horizons is shaped by the reality that vulnerable children and young adults do not always trust traditional systems, especially when fear, coercion, trauma, language barriers, or isolation are involved.

That is why the work must be more than procedural. It must be human, patient, and built on trust.

Survivor-Informed

Guided by lived experience and a deeper understanding of how exploitation hides in plain sight.

Trust-Based

Designed for individuals who may be too afraid, controlled, or isolated to safely ask for help.

Relationship-Driven

Focused on consistent engagement, not quick transactions or one-time contact.

Trauma-Informed

Built around safety, dignity, patience, and the reality that disclosure often takes time.

OUR APPROACH

Proactive.
Not Reactive.

Safe Horizons focuses on identifying vulnerable individuals before they disappear further into exploitation, trafficking, coercion, and isolation.

THE SILENCE IS THE DANGER

Public attention fades. Exploitation doesn’t.

Trafficking survives when vulnerable children disappear from public attention, trusted relationships, and support systems.

Safe Horizons exists to keep looking after the world moves on.

WHY IT STILL MATTERS

Visibility creates intervention.

The right support at the right moment can change the direction of a life that was almost forgotten.

Safe Horizons keeps looking because being seen can be the first step toward being reached.

TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY

Financial Stewardship

Safe Horizons For Children is committed to responsible stewardship of the funds entrusted to our organization. Every contribution helps support our charitable mission and the work required to carry it forward.

Responsible Stewardship

Contributions are managed with care and used to advance the charitable purpose and mission of Safe Horizons For Children.

Mission-Focused Funding

Donations may support education, awareness, prevention initiatives, community outreach, resources, partnerships, and the operational needs required to carry out our work.

Public Accountability

As applicable and available, nonprofit filings, reports, and organizational information may be made available to help supporters understand our structure and stewardship.

501(c)(3)
Recognized Nonprofit Organization

Safe Horizons For Children is recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

EIN / TAX ID 39-3959095
ORGANIZATION ADDRESS 3126 S New Haven Dr
Salt Lake City, UT 84121

Additional financial and organizational documentation will be made available as applicable and available.

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