Unbound Now

Unbound Now is Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Since our founding, more than 5,500 survivors and clients have found freedom, healing, and hope through Unbound Now. We have stood beside survivors as they testified in court against traffickers. We have walked with them as they rebuilt their lives. And we remain committed for the long road ahead.

Our After Care team uses evidence-based, trauma-informed, and survivor-centered practices to support lasting restoration. Our advocates meet survivors where they are, at a hospital at 3 a.m., a local coffee shop, a doctor’s office, or sitting beside them in a courtroom. From the first crisis call forward, we help survivors feel seen, heard, and supported.

Because of this consistent, relational support, survivors reach milestones that once felt impossible: stable housing, employment, education, family reunification, and long-term safety.

Unbound Now is proudly endorsed by the Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Child Sex Trafficking Team, and is an official advocacy provider by local child sex trafficking protocol development groups in Tarrant, Denton, and Johnson Counties. For four years, we have served as the lead victim service provider for the Tarrant County Human Trafficking Task Force.

Ending Human Trafficking

Human trafficking survivors have years of recovery ahead and they sometimes return to their trafficker because the healing process is so challenging. Unbound Now’s advocates stay close to their clients and build trust over time - sometimes years.

In October 2020, Unbound Now expanded support services for youth by opening the Underground Drop-In Center, located at One Safe Place near downtown Fort Worth. Open 24/7, the center offers youth through age 22 a safe place to rest, enjoy a meal, shower, and receive counseling and referrals for additional services. This refuge for services helps Unbound Now identify typically difficult-to-reach youth in order to intervene earlier in their trafficking experience, sometimes before they are exploited. Additionally, the Underground includes a soft interview room where youth who have been victimized can share their difficult stories in a warm, comforting, and therapeutic environment. 

Unbound Now prevents trafficking through educating students on safe relationships. Through a partnership with Fort Worth ISD funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Unbound Now is training thousands of students, teachers, and counselors on how to prevent and respond to human trafficking. So far in 2025, more than 7,000 students have received critical safety education to keep themselves and others safe from exploitation. 

Why This Work Matters

Traffickers use force, fraud, and coercion to exploit vulnerable youth and adults for sex or labor. They build trust, create dependency, isolate victims, and manipulate them with promises of love, protection, or opportunity. Sometimes traffickers are strangers. Sometimes they are family members. Sometimes they are employers exploiting immigration status or withholding wages.

Many survivors do not immediately recognize they are being trafficked. And even after escape, healing is long and complex. Some return to traffickers because trauma bonds are powerful and recovery is difficult.

That is why Unbound Now’s advocates stay. We build trust over months and often years. We answer the late-night calls. We show up, again and again, until survivors no longer walk alone.

Your Gift Changes a Life

Because of you:

• A survivor has someone sitting beside them in court.
• A crisis call at 3 a.m. is answered.
• Healing begins.

Your generosity directly fuels advocacy, crisis response, and long-term restoration in our own communities.

Freedom is possible.
Hope is real.
And your support makes it happen.