Ending exploitation and violence. A world where no one is bought or sold.
When Survivors Lead, Healing Follows
What Makes Her Way Home Different
Survivor-led at Every Level
Rooted In Trust, Dignity, and Flexibility
Harm Reduction, Not Punishment
From executive leadership and governance to outreach and direct care, survivors lead this organization. Survivor leadership here is not symbolic or advisory, it is operational. Lived experience guides our decisions, shapes our culture, and defines how support is offered.
Harm Reduction, Not Punishment
Rooted In Trust, Dignity, and Flexibility
Harm Reduction, Not Punishment
We reject punitive systems that demand compliance, sobriety, or “perfect” behavior as a condition for safety. Instead, we practice harm reduction and trauma-responsive care, meeting women where they are and responding to survival with compassion, not control.
Choice-driven Pathways Forward
Rooted In Trust, Dignity, and Flexibility
Rooted In Trust, Dignity, and Flexibility
There is no single definition of success at Her Way Home. Women define their own goals, timelines, and exit pathways, whether that means housing, healing, reconnection, rest, or simply surviving another day. Support is offered, never imposed.
Rooted In Trust, Dignity, and Flexibility
Rooted In Trust, Dignity, and Flexibility
Rooted In Trust, Dignity, and Flexibility
We believe real healing begins with trust. Our work prioritizes dignity, autonomy, and flexibility over rigid rules and surveillance. We create space for women to make choices, rebuild relationships, and imagine futures on their own terms.
Who we serve
Her Way Home serves women who have been pushed to the margins by systems that were never designed to protect them.
We walk alongside women impacted by commercial sexual exploitation, where survival is often criminalized instead of supported. Many of the women we serve have been buying safety with their bodies, navigating violence, coercion, and exploitation while being denied real pathways out.
We serve women experiencing homelessness, including those living outdoors, in encampments, abandoned buildings, or moving between unsafe and unstable spaces. For many, traditional shelters have felt inaccessible, unsafe, or harmful due to rigid rules and punitive policies.
Our work centers women carrying deep, layered trauma. Trauma caused not only by personal harm, but by systems that have judged, controlled, or punished them for surviving. Trauma shapes how women respond to stress, safety, and support, and we honor those responses rather than pathologizing them.
Many of the women we support are also navigating co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. We recognize these not as moral failures, but as understandable responses to prolonged trauma and instability. Support at Her Way Home does not require sobriety or compliance, it requires only that a woman deserves care.
At Her Way Home, women are not reduced to labels or diagnoses. They are met as whole people, with strength, resilience, and wisdom, supported on their own terms, at their own pace.
