{"id":21114,"date":"2022-09-11T18:26:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/?page_id=21114"},"modified":"2023-10-30T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:09:12","slug":"survivor-independence-packs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/survivor-independence-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivor Independence Packs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Survivor Independence Packs<\/p><\/h1><\/span>

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Issue Overview<\/span><\/h2><\/span>
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The Troubled Teen Industry, which claims to \u201cfix\u201d struggling youth, warehouses an estimated 120,000 \u2013 200,000 young people annually. Non-evidence-based approaches, including solitary confinement, physical restraint, sexual violence, and conversion therapy, are routinely used to control youth in these facilities.<\/p>\n

Every year, youth at TTI facilities \u201cage out\u201d by turning 18 and leaving the program. However, poor relationships between youth and their families often leave many homeless and without resources.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the long-term physical, mental, financial, and other consequences often faced as a result of having been institutionally abused and neglected can make it hard for survivors to support themselves later in life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Project Impact<\/span><\/h2><\/span>

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Providing Independence Packs to struggling survivors will allow us to empower them with essential tools, information, and guidance on issues they may be na\u00efve to due to their time in a facility. Together, these resources can help survivors re-integrate into society, stabilize, and begin on their healing journeys.<\/p>\n

These packs will contain a backpack, a laptop preloaded with extensive resources, hygiene products, a book about the TTI, gift cards, and more to help survivors navigate life outside of the program.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Theory of Change<\/span><\/h2><\/span>

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By providing resources to survivors who otherwise would have had no support, we can empower them to achieve their best potential and begin their paths to trauma recovery.<\/p>\n

Empowering new survivors may help change their lives by giving them a sense of belonging to a community that can better connect them to resources essential to a healthy and equitable future.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unsilenced.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}