About Us

2025

• We are currently launching a statewide prevention education program in cooperation with the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).

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2024

• StolenYouth supported services for 1,041 girls through our coalition partners and funded job training and placements for 68 youth.

• We increased a partner’s advocate caseload capacity by 43 percent

• Brought survivor-led prevention education to more than 1,100 youth in schools and juvenile detention facilities.

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2023

• StolenYouth funded a Seattle Children’s Hospital project to train healthcare providers on using a validated screening tool to identify youth at risk of sexual exploitation.

• We expanded advocate caseload capacity at the Organization for Prostitution Survivors through targeted grant support.

• Our funding helped WASE Forward’s survivor-led advocacy team influence legislation that expanded survivor services and improved statewide coordination.

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2022

• We added new partners focused on youth outreach and supported a landscape study in Okanogan County, bringing our reach to five counties.

• Scarlet Road’s Unbroken curriculum reached 1,934 youth in Kitsap County schools and juvenile detention facilities.

• Grantee outreach teams provided direct support to 183 at-risk youth.

• Project SugarFree, created in partnership with DNA, received a Bronze Effie Award and a Shorty Impact Award.

• We funded the Center for Children & Youth Justice to support 11 regional CSEC task forces across Washington.

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2021

• Our coalition delivered critical programming to more than 1,325 youth throughout the year.

• We strengthened the state’s trauma-informed response by supporting 12 regional CSEC task forces with training and technical assistance.

• With a focus on digital safety, Project SugarFree removed 1,200 exploitative posts, reported 4,200 others, and helped de-platform 21 exploiters.

• We launched the Empowerment Fund to help youth reclaim stability and pursue healing.

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2020

• As the pandemic deepened the crisis for trafficking survivors, we launched a month-long Emergency Fund Campaign. In just four weeks, we raised $212,000 to support frontline organizations from the Kitsap Peninsula to Okanogan County and throughout the I-5 corridor.

• Our total grantmaking in 2020 exceeded $800,000, which marked a 16 percent increase over the previous year.

• We expanded our coalition to include three new partners: IHTC, REST, and Scarlet Road.

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2019

• StolenYouth commissioned Dr. Debra Boyer to update her 2008 King County study Who Pays the Price? to reflect the current scope of commercial sexual exploitation in our region.

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2018

• We helped launch a three-year healthcare training initiative that reached 887 professionals. Before training, 84 percent of participants rated their trafficking knowledge as poor or fair. Afterward, 93 percent reported feeling well-informed and confident in their response.

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2017

• Our Co-Founder Patty Fleischmann raised public awareness by speaking at TEDxSeattle.

• We established the Ginny Fund to support prevention-focused programs.

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2016

• Through our funding, coalition partners served more than 250 youth with case management, counseling, housing, education, and vocational training.

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2015

• Seattle Against Slavery joined as our fifth funded coalition partner, expanding coordinated services for survivors.

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2014

• We hosted our first Town Hall focused on identifying and supporting youth who have experienced sexual exploitation.

• We hired our first employee and began building internal capacity for long-term growth.

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2013

• We awarded our first grants to support a coalition of organizations offering a 24/7 coordinated response for youth identified as victims of exploitation.

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2012

• After witnessing child sex trafficking firsthand in India, a group of women recognized that the same harm was happening at home. They came together to raise awareness and direct funding toward prevention and survivor services in their own communities.

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