You Are More Than Services

"YAMT saved my life. For the first time, I felt seen, heard, and understood. I have nothing but amazing things to say about your organization." - Member

Wellness Center

Our Wellness Center aims to build upon the crisis management model and move towards long-term care by providing, connecting and eliminating barriers for survivors to gain access to survivor-centered, trauma-informed mental health services throughout NJ and nationally. 

All services are provided nationally except for individual counseling services*

  • Though a survivor-centered, trauma-informed approach we provide individual counseling services for free to survivors throughout the state of New Jersey and Pennslyvania.

    Clinicians are survivor-leaders within our Wellness Center and are trained in EMDR, TF-CBT, IFS, and narrative therapy.

    Referral Link: Wellness Center Referral

  • Our peer mentorship program provides survivors who are 18+ with peer-led support services as survivors build up the skills in the following areas:

    • Community navigation

    • Job Preparation/ Support:

    • Education support

    • Entrepreneurship Coaching

    • Emotional Skill Building

    • Legal Advocacy

    • Listening Ear

    To learn more about the program visit us here.

    Refer here: Peer Mentorship Program

  • We provide ongoing weekly group support services to survivors nationally. Our current group offerings can be found here.

    Participants have to register for any groups being offered.

  • We provide flexible funding to survivors in need of supportive funds to attend therapeutic services.

    Grants include:

    • Reimbursement for therapy co-pays

    • Funding for Psychiatric services

    • Funding for transportation to and from therapy appointments

    To learn more about our wellness grants please email us at info@yamt.org

  • Is the first mental health directory in the country exclusively for survivors of domestic trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in the United States created by YAMT.

    We match survivors throughout the country with qualified providers that are survivor-centered and trauma-informed. Learn more by visiting us here.

Educational Empowerment

Our Educational Empowerment program supports survivors in re-investing in their own educational journeys through cash grants to help survivors pay for Tuition, Rent, Childcare, Transportation, and the Internet to continue supporting their long-term education goals.

    • Peer-to-Peer Support

    • Support Navigating Accommodations

    • Application Support

    • Academic Financial Planning (scholarship/fellowship support)

  • Survivors can apply for upwards of $750.00 a year to go towards tuition, Rent, Childcare, Transportation, or Internet while attending school. Scholarship funding can be provided to survivors for 2 years.

    Please fill out our program intake form here in order to apply for this specific program.

Economic Empowerment

Our Economic Empowerment program directly invests in survivor-led small businesses by providing survivor leaders with flexible funding as they embark on pathways to financial freedom through entrepreneurship.

    • Bi-monthly Small Business Workshops (in collaboration with Shobana Powell Consulting)

    • Capacity Building Support

    • Small Business Plan writing and evaluation

    • 12-Week Financial Empowerment Course

  • Survivor leaders have access to upwards of $1,000 a year in grant funding to go toward their small businesses.

    Survivor leaders also have the opportunity to partner with us through our Nurture Forward Wellness Box.

    Please fill out our program intake form here in order to apply for this specific program.

  • Nurture by YAMT is our social enterprise component of You Are More Than. This subscription box allows us to bring wellness to a survivor’s door through survivor-centered curated materials that help survivors navigate through issues like PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, and Grief.

    Through this box, we partner with local survivor-led small businesses to increase their reach and support their small businesses. 80% of sales from this box go back into our economic empowerment program.

How do I know if I Qualify for Services?

    • You may have been impacted by trafficking if you have engaged in the commercial sex industry and Force, Fraud or Coercion was utilized to keep you there.

    • If you had to engage in survival sex (as a kid or an adult) in order to get your needs met?

    • If your parent made you engage in sexual acts as a kid in exchange for something of value, cash, substance use, etc. Or forced you to engage in child sexual abuse material in exchange for money.

    • If you have experienced being unhoused or aged out of the foster care system and had to utilize sex to get your basic needs met.

    • If you have a partner (gender does not matter) that has convinced you or made you engage in sexual acts with others in exchange for something of value like money or housing, food, clothing, etc.

    • Your employer refuses to pay you or has withheld payment from you for the work that you have done.

    • You were exploited by a group of individuals whether it be thru religiously, through a cult, gang etc.

    • You identify as a sex worker and consensually exchange in the commercial sex industry.

    Please note that this list is NOT all-encompassing. There are so many experiences of exploitation and harm that someone can experience in their lifetime; these are just examples of what engagement in the commercial sex industry can look like.

  • Do you identify as a domestic survivor of trafficking? (This means that you were born in the United States and Trafficked here in the United States).

  • Are you between the ages of 18-45 years old?

  • Do you identify as a sex worker?

  • Do you identify as a familial trafficking survivor?

  • Have you engaged in the commercial sex industry but don’t label yourself as either of these individuals?

  • Are you Black, Indigenous, or Survivor of Color?

  • Do you identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex?

  • Are you fully exited from the commercial sex industry (if you are a trafficking survivor)?

  • Do you have your basic needs met? Stably housed and not currently facing food insecurity or substance use difficulties?

  • If you are still unsure if you are a good fit, see our table to the left describing some of the experiences clients we serve face.

    *Please note: YAMT does not currently offer case management services; in order to gain access to our services, we ask that you are stably housed, not struggling with active substance use that impedes your day-to-day functioning, and not facing food insecurity to be an appropriate referral.

Crisis management supports survivors out the door and into a new life.

Our after-care services aim to nurture, uplift, and empower each survivor as we walk alongside survivors to stability and happiness.

Pathways to educational empowerment

Can support survivors in moving beyond survivorship and into spaces that create sustainable and tangible change within their communities and own lives.

Financial empowerment

goes beyond giving funds and moves towards education and a true investment in a survivor’s financial well-being through leadership development that supports survivors in seeing themselves within the anti-trafficking movement and beyond.

You matter here and we are here for you when you are ready.

Please be mindful:

Our organization does not provide case management OR crisis management support

(i.e. if you are in danger or in need of exiting the commercial sex industry, finding resources for food, shelter, or immediate mental health crisis support - we do not provide these type of services)