You Are More Than Services
"YAMT saved my life. For the first time, I felt seen, heard, and understood. I have nothing but amazing things to say about your organization." - Member
Wellness Center
Our Wellness Center aims to build upon the crisis management model and move towards long-term care by providing, connecting and eliminating barriers for survivors and sex workers to gain access to survivor-centered, trauma-informed mental health services throughout NJ and nationally.
All services are provided nationally except for counseling services which are only available to PA and NJ participants*-
Through a survivor-centered, trauma-informed approach, we provide individual counseling services for free to survivors and sex workers throughout the state of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Clinicians are survivor-leaders within our Wellness Center and are trained in EMDR, TF-CBT, IFS, and narrative therapy.
Referral Link: Wellness Center Referral
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Through a survivor-centered, trauma-informed approach, we provide Family and Couples counseling services for free to survivors, sex workers, their partners, and families throughout the state of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Referral Link: Couple and Family Counseling Referral Form
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Our peer mentorship program provides survivors and sex workers who are 18+ with peer-led support services as members build up the skills in the following areas:
Community navigation
Job Preparation/ Support:
Education support
Entrepreneurship Coaching
Emotional Skill Building
Legal Advocacy
Listening Ear
To learn more about the program, visit us here.
Refer here:Peer Mentorship Program
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We provide ongoing weekly group support services to survivors and sex workers nationally. Our current group offerings can be found here.
Participants have to register for any groups being offered.
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From Wheel to Wellness program aims to support BIPOC and LGBTQ+ survivors of trafficking, sex workers, and those impacted by the commercial sex industry through the arts.
This 16-week program supports survivors in navigating through PTSD symptoms through the use of art-based therapies, specifically ceramics.
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Our Nurture Forward Directory is a mental health directory in the United States geared towards connecting survivors and sex workers to clinicians equipped and trained to see those with experiences in the sex trade.
Utilizing this directory we match survivors and sex workers throughout the country with qualified providers that are survivor-centered and trauma-informed. Learn more by visiting us here.
Career and Educational Development
Our Career and Education Development program supports our members in re-investing in their own entrepreneurial, professional, and educational journeys through one-on-one support and guidance, resource gathering assistance, small group courses, and skill-building webinars to help members reach their long-term goals.
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One-on-one Support and Guidance
Small Business Plan Writing and Evaluation
Capacity and Community Building Support
Media Relations and Marketing Guidance
Bi-Monthly Small Business Workshops (in collaboration with Shobana Powell Consulting)
12-week Financial Empowerment Course
Various one-off and rotating webinars and small-group learning opportunities
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Resume Building
Job Search Guidance
Interview Preparation
Resource gathering
Rotating and one-off workshops, webinars, and professional development opportunities
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Application support
Scholarship/Fellowship Resourcing and Application Support
Support with Seeking Educational Accommodations
Academic Financial Planning Support
Internship Support
Rotating and one-off workshops and webinars for various educational advancement related topics
Grants and Flexible Funding
Our Grants and Flexible Funding support exists to help provide our members support in navigating through various financial situations. We all deserve a world where we can live on our own terms with the financial means to support our wellbeing and growth and YAMT aims to help make this easier whenever possible.
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We provide flexible funding to survivors and sex workers in need of supportive funds to attend therapeutic services.
Grants include:
Reimbursement for therapy co-pays
Funding for Psychiatric services
Funding for transportation to and from therapy appointments
This grant cycle is current: CLOSED - Please check back soon.
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A capacity building and business expansion focused grant meant to support survivor and sex worker owned small-businesses and entrepreneurial ventures.
Awarded grantees and their businesses participate in a 12-week long capacity building project where they are able to utilize the grant funding to work with a specialized consultant to work with the grantee on reaching completion for their proposed expansion project.
This grant cycle is current: CLOSED - Please check back soon.
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A grant supporting the development of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC-led survivor or sex worker small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures in their early stages of conception and implementation.
Awarded grantees are provided with:
$2,000 for their businesses
Access to a growing network of small-business owners that work closely with YAMT
Optional brand exposure to YAMT’s corporate sponsors
Optional capacity building and mentorship from YAMT’s Career and Education Development Team
This grant cycle is current: CLOSED - Please check back soon.
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When funding is available, YAMT is able to offer members of supportive funding for education related expenses such as tuition, rent, childcare, transportation, or internet while attending school.
This grant cycle is current: CLOSED - Please check back soon.
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When funding is available, YAMT is able to offer once yearly grants of up to $500 to members that may be experiencing hardships (examples include but are not limited to: reduced or removed SNAP benefits, childcare issues, housing issues, etc).
Details and applications for this grant will be sent out to members as funding becomes available.
How do I know if I Qualify for Services?
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You may have been impacted by trafficking if you have engaged in the commercial sex industry and Force, Fraud or Coercion was utilized to keep you there.
If you had to engage in survival sex (as a kid or an adult) in order to get your needs met?
If your parent made you engage in sexual acts as a kid in exchange for something of value, cash, substance use, etc. Or forced you to engage in child sexual abuse material in exchange for money.
If you have experienced being unhoused or aged out of the foster care system and had to utilize sex to get your basic needs met.
If you have a partner (gender does not matter) that has convinced you or made you engage in sexual acts with others in exchange for something of value like money or housing, food, clothing, etc.
Your employer refuses to pay you or has withheld payment from you for the work that you have done.
You were exploited by a group of individuals whether it be thru religiously, through a cult, gang etc.
You identify as a sex worker and consensually exchange in the commercial sex industry.
Please note that this list is NOT all-encompassing. There are so many experiences of exploitation and harm that someone can experience in their lifetime; these are just examples of what engagement in the commercial sex industry can look like.
If you answer yes to one or more of the questions below, YAMT’s programs and services may be a good fit for you:
Do you identify as a domestic survivor of trafficking? (This means that you were born in the United States and Trafficked here in the United States).
Are you between the ages of 18-45 years old?
Do you identify as a sex worker?
Do you identify as a familial trafficking survivor?
Have you engaged in the commercial sex industry but don’t label yourself as either of these individuals?
Are you Black, Indigenous, or person of Color?
Do you identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex?
Are you fully exited from the commercial sex industry (if you are a trafficking survivor)?
Do you have your basic needs met? Stably housed and not currently facing food insecurity or substance use difficulties?
If you are still unsure if you are a good fit, see our table to the right describing some of the experiences clients we serve face.
*Please note: YAMT does not currently offer case management services; in order to gain access to our services, we ask that you are stably housed, not struggling with active substance use that impedes your day-to-day functioning, and not facing food insecurity to be an appropriate referral.
Crisis management supports survivors out the door and into a new life.
Our after-care services aim to nurture, uplift, and empower each survivor as we walk alongside survivors to stability and happiness.
Pathways to educational empowerment
Can support survivors in moving beyond survivorship and into spaces that create sustainable and tangible change within their communities and own lives.
Financial empowerment
goes beyond giving funds and moves towards education and a true investment in a survivor’s financial well-being through leadership development that supports survivors in seeing themselves within the anti-trafficking movement and beyond.
