This brief presentation shares how the Safe Shelter Collaborative helps sheltering agencies find shelter faster for a greater diversity of survivors.

2. Donors
Sheltering
agencies
Survivor-
centered,
trauma-informed
care
Funders Anti-trafficking
coalitions+ +
+
=
+
The Safe Shelter Collaborative is a collaboration.
+
Community-
designed
technology

3. The Safe Shelter Collaborative
improves access to urgently
needed shelter for a greater
number and diversity of human
trafficking and domestic violence
survivors.

4. The Safe Shelter Collaborative
has three components:

5. 1. Increase the capacity of
organizations to offer survivor-
centered, trauma-informed care to
survivors of human trafficking.

6. 2. Technology to maximize the
ability to find available and
appropriate shelter space.

7. .
Agencies contact each other with
enough non-identifying client
information to request shelter.
The average response time
is under 5 minutes.

8. 3. The ability to source funding for
a hotel room, when that is an
appropriate and safe option for
the survivor.

9. Engage supporters
to make a tax-
deductible donation
for hotel stays via
the SafeNight app.

10. Survivors are getting shelter faster.
 On average, agencies are responding to
shelter requests in under 5 minutes.
 Shelters are helping a broader diversity of
survivors than expected.
 Intake is expedited, reducing survivor
re-traumatization.

11. Safe Shelter Collaborative members
• 501(c)(3) organizations, tribal entities, and law
enforcement agencies that offer victim assistance
services.
• Organizations that provide shelter or shelter referral
services to survivors of domestic violence, runaway
and homeless youth, or human trafficking.
• Organizations trained to provide trauma-informed
and survivor-centered support for survivors of
human trafficking and domestic violence.

12. We build technology for social change.
Caravan Studios is a division of TechSoup,
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
@caravanstudios
http://www.caravanstudios.org
www.SafeShelterCollaborative.org