One of the greatest needs are long-term therapeutic safe homes for children who have been identified or recovered from traffickers. The State of Florida’s 2023 Oppaga Report indicates that 354 children were verified as victims of commercial sexual exploitation in Florida. Sadly, the urgent problem is there are very few safe home programs in Florida with less than 25 beds. Bridging Freedom provides nearly half of these to provide holistic rehabilitative services for children who have developed mental and physical issues requiring specialized care and therapy. Recognizing this need, the founder began working in collaboration with Human Trafficking agencies in 2010, mentored by Wellspring Living and building community support, Bridging Freedom opened in 2018 on nearly 100 acres to provide a staff-secured campus with traditional homes and space for outdoor therapeutic activities, health management, education, life skills, recreation and outings. It is a holistic environment where children live in traditional-style homes with professional caretakers who create a positive, healthy and stable environment. Each home provides an individual bedroom and bathroom for the child, living room, dining room, kitchen, educational room, therapy room, and offices. Bridging Freedom is a licensed Tier 2 program for girls ages 12-17 that provides a holistic service approach that aligns with evidence-based concepts and practices that CSEC children need specific and specialized services. Our trauma-informed team is trained to provide care in stabilizing trauma behaviors while building trust. Therapy addresses their trauma and follows an individualized treatment and goal plan to help her rebuild her self worth, work towards her goals and to rebuild her life. Understanding that children exhibit trauma-behaviors such as running, self-harming and verbally/physically aggressive behaviors, our team meets the child where she is at. We maintain a high 1:2 staff-to-child ratio, allowing programming to continue while other staff work to stabilize trauma behaviors when needed. Through a step-wise program of 1 to 2 years through six stages, Bridging Freedom helps children stabilize, trust, begin to heal emotionally and physically and adjust to being kids again. The presentation will include 4 professionals who have extensive experience to help attendees understand how to help child survivors achieve stability to reach their goals. We will share the multitude of needed services, professionals and normalcy that children need in place to be successful in their healing journey. We will share why it is important for a survivor mentor to interact with the children in a consistent and intentional approach. And lastly, we will share what we have learned is a gap in services and the solution for the graduated participant to avoid recidivism. Our main objective is to share what we have learned what works and what doesn’t to encourage others provide solutions for CSEC children.