Description:

The Huckleberry Advocacy and Response Team (HA&RT) is a crisis response, stabilization and case management program for commercially sexually exploited girls and young women, and those at risk of exploitation, ages 10-21. The portion of the program funded by this contract involves services to juvenile justice involved youth or criminal justice involved transition aged youth. Youth are referred by probation officers from either system. Weekly groups are held at juvenile hall using an evidence-based gender responsive curricula. Therapy is provided for individual youth or with their caregivers. Parent support is provided with one on one meetings with an Intervention Specialist and also through Parent's Turn, a six week skill building course offered four times yearly.