Child Sex Trafficking Team - Care Coordination & CSEY Advocacy
Care Coordination and Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth (CSEY) Advocacy are integral components of each of the Child Sex Trafficking Team (CSTT)'s core strategies.
Care Coordination and CSEY Advocacy are foundational to the CSTT's holistic and robust approach to address the needs of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. These critical components are woven into each of our five strategies: Protect, Recognize, Recover, Support Healing, and Bring Justice, ensuring a comprehensive response at every stage of the survivor's journey.
Care Coordination Teams
The CSEY Care Continuum in Texas is designed to ensure that services are coordinated and available for every child from early intervention (emerging and identified risk), through active investigation, and follow-up care.
The Texas Model of Care Coordination is a consensus-driven, collaborative approach to identify, recover, and facilitate tailored, accessible, trauma-informed holistic resources through a coordinated network of providers. Care Coordination teams build trust, transparency, and solutions with each other to mitigate duplication of work, so that local and statewide partners are bridges instead of barriers to services for children, youth, and families.
Care Coordination ensures that all youth receive appropriate, quality services in a timely, seamless way, including CSEY advocacy, a specialized advocacy program that is designed specifically to support survivors of child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking.
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CSEY Advocacy Programs
Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth (CSEY) Advocacy is an essential programmatic strategy in the CSTT's Texas Model to address child sexual exploitation. CSEY Advocacy programs are nonprofit agencies that provide individualized 24/7 crisis response and ongoing long-term, trust-based relational support to child and youth survivors. These agencies' field-based advocates prioritize a victim-centered response to survivors, and work closely with law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, healthcare, and other partners to ensure an effective multidisciplinary approach.