Pillar three of three
Restoration
Referral to community partners, long-term case planning, independent living and ongoing support. The years after the crisis, which is where a life is actually rebuilt.
The top of the model, and the part almost nobody else in South Dakota does at all.
Long-term healing
As a client achieves goals, hope and autonomy grow.
Comprehensive restoration services grow a client’s capacity to restore their life free from violence. With safety and basic needs met, a client continues their journey on the Call to Freedom client services pathway.
Services are self-directed and self-paced by survivors, because each person’s experience is unique and nobody recovers on a schedule set by an agency.
This is the part of the work that has no natural end date, and it is the reason Call to Freedom exists. Up to ninety percent of survivors fall through the cracks without specialised long-term care. Not a programme she graduates from. A door that stays open.
Restoration services
Four kinds of long work.
Call to Freedom leverages existing community resources — counselling, legal aid, long-term medical care — and adds the coordination that holds them together.
Long-term case planning
The foundation of a client’s independence. Self-directed and self-paced, built around goals the survivor sets rather than milestones we impose.
Case management
Helps clients overcome rural isolation, language barriers, mental health and addiction struggles, and reintegration after incarceration. It also addresses the needs of youth and assists with family development goals.
Housing navigation
Assists survivors in finding and transitioning into safe, stable housing — including Marissa’s House, our own supportive housing site.
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Equips clients with the skills and resources needed to secure and maintain stabilising and meaningful employment.
Independent living
Self-sufficiency, and the healing that keeps going.
Independent living and ongoing support empower clients to build self-sufficiency while recognising and addressing their continued healing needs from trafficking and exploitation.
- Occupational therapy
- Volunteer mentorship
- Spiritual coordination
- Budgeting classes
- Parenting classes
Marissa’s House
Supportive housing, and children coming home.
Marissa’s House is supportive housing for victims and their children, helping them transition back into the community and, where it is safe, reunite with their children. It holds national accreditation from the Safe House Project.
- 2016
Mission begins and office doors open. Marissa’s House opens with seven efficiency apartments.
- 2017
Marissa’s House is at or over capacity the duration of the year.
- 2020
Land secured for expansion.
- 2021
The Marissa’s House Campaign launches.
- 2022
Reopens in a safer location at a maximum occupancy of 36. Mothers can now be reunified with their children.
- 2023
Receives national accreditation from the Safe House Project.
Marissa’s House has been a huge blessing to my kids and I. To have a second chance at being a better mother and person. The staff is so understanding and compassionate. I’m forever grateful.
I don’t think I would have ever felt safe, loved, or trust if I hadn’t met y’all. I don’t think I would have made it, or been alive without the care you both provided. I’m so beyond grateful to be here today, and for the people who have helped…
The model
The whole model, from the bottom up.
Restoration is only reachable because prevention found her and intervention held her.
Each pillar rests on the one beneath it. Prevention is the foundation, because the community that notices first is the reason anyone is ever referred.
Most of this work has no end date.
Up to ninety percent of survivors fall through the cracks without specialised long-term care. Restoration is measured in years, which is exactly why it is the hardest part to fund and the part that decides whether any of the rest held.