Her start: housing, education, and recovery for survivors of trafficking through assisted reentry and treatment - housing, education, and recovery for survivors of trafficking through assisted reentry…

Her start: housing, education, and recovery for survivors of trafficking through assisted reentry and treatment - housing, education, and recovery for survivors of trafficking through assisted reentry and treatment (her start) will provide recovery and trauma healing services to women survivors of human trafficking and similar traumas in the greater cincinnati, ohio region. Her start will be an expansion of the off the streets (OTS) program of cincinnati union bethel DBA her cincinnati (her cincinnati), which has been providing social services in this region since 1830. Established in 2006, OTS is cincinnati's only addiction recovery program for women survivors of human trafficking. OTS received ohio mental health and addiction services certification to provide substance use disorder (SUD) services in 2018 and was recertified in 2022. Participants in her start will be referred from correctional facilities and the program is expected to serve up to 140 women per year. Her start will focus services on the unique population of women who have experienced trafficking of similar traumas and who have substance use disorder. The dual focus of treating SUD and trauma together is critical to a woman's long-term success and will be a differentiating feature of her start. Her start will provide services that treat SUD, CO-occurring disorders, human trafficking, and similar traumas with an integrated and trauma-informed, person-centered approach. Further, her cincinnati's professionally licensed and credentialed staff also have shared lived experience with the population served, which uniquely enables them to form empathic trust and establish immediate rapport. Her start will provide comprehensive services beyond SUD treatment that includes homeless shelter care, workforce development training, supervised recovery housing, permanent affordable housing, and record expungement. The her start program will be implemented as an expansion of the current services provided in her cincinnati's off the streets (OTS) program. The expansion will provide greater outreach and collaboration with correctional facilities, add service elements that focus on reducing criminal engagement and recidivism, and increase the number of women served each year with a five-year projection of 580 unduplicated women served. Services offered will include SUD outpatient (OP) and intensive outpatient (IOP) treatment groups, individualized case management and mental health counseling, enrichment and life-skills programming, homeless shelter services, and affordable housing. Evidence-based curricula will be used in programming, including seeking safety, the matrix, and thinking for change. Her start's six specific objectives for this grant period will be: (1) 90% of program participants will make progress toward meeting their sobriety goals as identified in their CO-created individual recovery plan; (2) 75% of program participants will improve by at least one self-sufficiency level on their self-sufficiency matrix; (3) 70% of program participants will secure gainful employment upon exiting the program; (4) 90% of program participants will exit the program to positive housing outcomes; (5) 65% of program participants will not experience RE-admission to the program after exit; (6) 75% of program participants will reduce their risk of criminal recidivism as indicated by their rating on the ohio risk assessment screening (oras) screening tool.