about

Prax(us) continues to be the only program in Colorado dedicated to serving youth in human trafficking situations and domestic human trafficking victims. By providing services such as street outreach, case management, training to service providers and law enforcement officers, peer-led drop-in groups, and a therapeutic theatre program, Prax(us) serves youth in vulnerable and exploitive situations through a close partnership with Urban Peak.Prax(us) is a member of the Colorado Network to End Human Trafficking (CoNEHT), working to maintain the statewide human trafficking hotline, develop effective statewide protocols, and bring awareness to the state about the issue of human trafficking.Prax(us), alongside Polaris Project Colorado, also works with the local training and community capacity building efforts with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to address the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Colorado.Prax(us) believes in an anti-oppression model of community work. This means……we believe the communities most effected by an issue are the ones who should address it…we believe that as long as the most vulnerable are oppressed and exploited, we are all engaged in a cycle of oppression…we believe that oppression must be fought at every level: the personal, the community, and the institutional…we believe that in order for us to take steps to freedom, we must all be engaged in a constant process of reflection and action on our lives and on the world in which we live…that hope must exist in our work…that personal experience must be weaved with political movement…and that we must be always connected to the story