ABOUT GEMS

Girls Educational and Mentoring Services’ (GEMS) mission is to empower girls and young women, ages 12–29, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact commercially sexually exploited youth.

GEMS’ unique Victim, Survivor, Leader™ (VSL) program model is the gold standard for organizations serving trafficking victims and survivors across the country. GEMS trains thousands of professionals every year on its best practices.