Morning of Hope
How do local girls get trafficked, and what can be done about?
Join this FREE human trafficking awareness event to learn more.
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
10 am - 12 pm
Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Police recovery operations are happening all across the United States. They catch thousands of bad guys each year, and free thousands of girls and young women.
The good news is that girls and young women are getting recovered…EVERY DAY!
But no one talks about what happens next.
Do they go home?
Do they go to a hospital?
Do they pick right back up where they left off in 8th grade…?
Frankly, we don’t talk about it much because it’s not a pretty story.
Some of the stories about what these girls go through AFTER the abuse are as painful as talking about the abuse.
In the picture-perfect Hollywood story, the girl gets rescued. Then she goes home to a warm, welcoming family. And she is instantly healed of the trauma and abuse and she lives happily ever after.
That story sells tickets and makes us feel better about a horrible truth in our world.
But the truth is often gut-wrenching, ugly, painful, messy, and hard to look at.
The truth is, girls who’ve been trafficked need months and sometimes YEARS of help before they get “better”.
Over the past 15 years working with these girls and young women, we’ve seen a lot…
We’ve seen a girl come in with a bullet fragment still in her head from her trafficker trying to kill her as she was escaping
We’ve seen a girl come in with a broken femur because the trafficker dragged her from a car as she tried to escape
Girls regularly come in with broken noses, broken teeth, black eyes and bruised faces
We see sexually transmitted infections that take months or years to heal from
We see minds that have been warped to think that every man is only out to abuse them or manipulate them into doing something
Many girls come in with their trafficker’s names tattooed and sometimes burned into their skin like a farmer brands livestock
Many of the girls have hearts that have lost the will to live and to love and to trust people
Often we see girls that have spirits that have been broken like an animal through the mental and sometimes physical cages that the traffickers lock them in
So, no, they don’t just go home and start back in 8th grade where they left off…
Every day, we see the “rest of the story” and the huge need these girls have.
That’s one reason we’re inviting friends like you to something very special — a Morning of Hope. It’s a quiet, personal look inside the healing journey these girls are walking through right now. You’ll hear stories of hope, see where the girls live and heal, and meet some of the people who help them rediscover life again.
If your heart has ever wondered what healing really looks like beyond the rescue — this morning will show you.
At a Morning of Hope, you won’t just hear about human trafficking — you’ll meet the women who lived through it and the experts who help them heal every single day.
There’s something powerful about that moment when truth becomes personal. No amount of research or Google searches can compare to looking into the eyes of a survivor who’s now free… or hearing her describe what safety feels like for the first time.
These awareness events are taught by survivors themselves, along with leading subject-matter experts who spend their lives on the frontlines of rescue, recovery, and restoration. It’s not theory. It’s not headlines. It’s real life, and it’s happening right here in Arizona.
There are 97 beds for children and young women on this campus — every one of them filled by a young woman who is finally safe, finally healing, and finally beginning to believe her life has purpose again.
When you come, you’re not just learning about the issue — you’re stepping into a story of hope that’s still being written.
Testimonies
From survivor speakers
awareness
safety and education
from Program Leadership
Over 12.85K survivors served since 2008
10 am
Registration & Opening
Welcomed in the lobby by graduates,
refreshments will be served throughout
10:15 am
Program
Graduate & staff led awareness program will begin at 10:15 am including live testimonials, local human trafficking statistics, safety and prevention information and ways for the community to get involved.
11:30 am
Silent Auction
As the program concludes survivor artwork silent auction will close. Proceeds will be used to help more young women recover at the Phoenix Dream Center
12 pm
Close
You will have an opportunity to get involved further with either the Life Recovery or Human Trafficking Recovery Programs at the Phoenix Dream Center which have helped over 2,700 clients recover since 2002
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