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Thistle Farms outlines residential program, employment enterprises and policy work for survivors of trafficking
Summary
Amanda Cleland, director of communications and advocacy for Thistle Farms, presented the nonprofit's safe house, two-year residential program, social enterprises and statewide advocacy successes, including recent changes to Tennessee law and expansion of safe-house capacity.
Amanda Cleland, director of communications and advocacy for Thistle Farms, briefed the Public Health & Safety Committee on the nonprofit’s residential, employment and advocacy programs for women survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
Thistle Farms operates a safe house providing short-term crisis stabilization and an eight-bed capacity that was expanded from four beds this year; a two-year residential program that provides housing, food, trauma therapy and case management at no cost to participants; and social enterprises — including a manufacturing arm (Body & Home) and a cafe — that provide job training and second-chance employment.
“Without that residential program, Thistle…
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