What We Do

Our Core Values

• Prostitution is violence against women.
• No one deserves to be bought and sold, and everyone deserves to live free of violence.
• It is important to criminalize the buyer, and decriminalize the bought: to hold the demand accountable, not the victim.

Our Goals
While the primary mission of Breaking Free is to provide direct services to victims and survivors, we also aim to: 

• Ensure that the services provided are victim-centered, trauma-informed, and operate within a culturally appropriate, age- and gender-specific context;
• Provide permanent housing and rental or placement assistance to our target population;
• Decriminalize victims and encourage the use of pre-court diversion in lieu of criminal charges against women in prostitution;
• Educate law enforcement, the criminal justice system, medical professionals, service providers, educators and students, faith communities, and the community at large about the effects of commercial sexual exploitation on women;
• Expose prostitution and sex trafficking as violence against women; and
• To stop the demand that drives sex trafficking.