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BUILDING BRIDGES AGAINST TRAFFICKING (B-BAT)

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The Building Bridges Against Trafficking (B-BAT) program is the lead victim services provider for the STOP Human Trafficking Task Force (STOP HTTF) and is funded by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).

B-BAT provides Care Coordination for adult sex trafficking survivors (18 years and up), labor trafficking survivors (all ages), and survivors up to 18 years old who are ineligible for existing Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth Care Coordination mechanisms in place throughout the 12-county Central Texas jurisdiction.

Care Coordination is an opportunity to leverage resources centrally, meaningfully engage all relevant partners, move quickly through a complicated network of systems, and ensure victim services and law enforcement each can walk alongside survivors. It is our goal that survivors of all ages and all forms of trafficking are served through Care Coordination.

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We provide direct advocacy services and offer intensive case management to survivors when no other advocacy agency is available. Collaborating with our network of service providers, we connect survivors with the following types of services including but not limited to:

  • Safe Shelter and Housing
  • Food
  • Clothing and Toiletries
  • Medical Care
  • Mental Health Services
  • Legal Representation
  • Transportation
  • Education and Employment Skills

B-BAT also facilitates the STOP HTTF Victim Services Subcommittee, conducts trainings for professionals, and provides outreach and awareness, technical assistance, and limited funds distribution.

I CAME TO THE USA TO FIND REFUGE FOR ME AND MY TWO BOYS. THE ADVOCATE I WORKED WITH WAS VERY HELPFUL WITH MY IMMIGRATION PAPERS AND ALSO IN THE HOUSING PROGRAM. HELP IS ALWAYS ON OUR DOORSTEP. THANK YOU!

 

SERVING SOUTH TEXAS

Referrals can be accepted for eligible individuals within our 12-county service area (Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Medina  and Wilson).

ELIGIBILITY
  • Potential/suspected or confirmed survivors of sex trafficking 18+ years of age;
  • Potential/suspected or confirmed survivors of labor trafficking of all ages (minors and adults);
  • Potential/suspected or confirmed minor survivors of sex trafficking in the counties where CSEY care coordination is not already implemented (Atascosa, Bandera, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Karnes, Kendall, Medina and Wilson);
  • Of any gender identification;
  • Of any legal status;
  • Physically in or traveling to service area, or victimization occurred within service area but since relocated elsewhere.

GET HELP

To refer yourself, or someone you know, to our program for services, email a completed referral form to STOP-HT@bcfs.net.

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