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MISSSEY Healing Wounds. Breaking Cycles Every child is too valuable to be bought and sold.

Last week, we gathered in community to share who we are and why we do this work.At MISSSEY, we are committed to ending e...
04/23/2026

Last week, we gathered in community to share who we are and why we do this work.

At MISSSEY, we are committed to ending exploitation and gender-based violence by creating spaces where youth can be safe, supported, and free.

Thank you to everyone who came to learn, connect, and stand with us. This is how we continue to break cycles.

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We have launched our NEW WEBSITE!The design has evolved, but our commitment remains the same: we stop exploitation befor...
02/16/2026

We have launched our NEW WEBSITE!

The design has evolved, but our commitment remains the same: we stop exploitation before it begins, create pathways out, and stand with survivors as they rebuild on their own terms.

This redesign reflects the full breadth of our work. In addition to prevention and advocacy, we create safe spaces for rest and connection, provide mental health and self-care programming, and offer direct support including case management and housing assistance.

You will see a visual direction rooted in healing. Earth tones. Grounded greens. Images that reflect dignity, care, and growth. These choices are intentional. The young people we serve are not defined by exploitation.
They are defined by their inherent worth and their right to shape their own futures.

We are proud to share a website that reflects both the urgency of our work and the hope at its center.

Visit MISSSEY.org to explore the new site.

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This Black History Month, we celebrate triumph — not just survival but transformation.🌟 The brilliance of Black creators...
02/07/2026

This Black History Month, we celebrate triumph — not just survival but transformation.

🌟 The brilliance of Black creators and thinkers who shaped literature, science, culture, and justice.
🌟 The organizers who turned marches into movements and grief into power.
🌟 The everyday Black people who love, build, and sustain communities against all odds.

Black excellence isn’t seasonal; it is relentless. It shines in every classroom, street corner, artistic expression, and voice that refuses to be silenced.

We celebrate Black joy. We celebrate Black genius. We celebrate Black futures.

May this month inspire us all to uplift Black brilliance, protect Black girls, and expand Black freedom — today and every day. 🖤🚀

Black history isn’t just about the past; it’s a living inheritance.From the wisdom of Harriet Tubman’s network of resist...
02/05/2026

Black history isn’t just about the past; it’s a living inheritance.

From the wisdom of Harriet Tubman’s network of resistance to the courage of Bayard Rustin and Fannie Lou Hamer, Black organizers built strategies rooted in collective protection, mutual aid, and fearless moral clarity.

Today, as people push back against ICE and police terror, and all forms of state violence, we stand on the shoulders of centuries of resistance. That fortitude didn’t start with us; it was passed down, forged in struggle, and expanded by our ancestors.

In honoring Black history this month, we honor the tools of resistance that help us protect Black families, defend our communities, and demand justice for all those targeted by systemic violence.

Black history prepares us not just to survive, but to resist, persist, and transform. ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Lucille Clifton reminds us that survival is worthy of celebration.For young people facing harm and uncertainty, making i...
01/29/2026

Lucille Clifton reminds us that survival is worthy of celebration.

For young people facing harm and uncertainty, making it through the day can be an act of courage. Healing is often built on small anchors: community, care, and the next step forward.

Now more than ever, we need each other. We need to witness and protect one another.

How are you showing up for yourself and others these days?

Social media has blurred the line between sharing and commodifying childhood.In a world already shaped by patriarchy, ex...
01/27/2026

Social media has blurred the line between sharing and commodifying childhood.

In a world already shaped by patriarchy, exploitation, and gender-based violence, visibility is not neutral, and children cannot consent to the risks that come with being turned into content.

Girls deserve privacy. They deserve protection. They deserve freedom.

Protecting young people online requires more than awareness; it requires collective action:
accountability from platforms, digital boundaries rooted in care, and a refusal to normalize the exploitation of children in any form.

Youth safety must include digital safety.
Childhood is not content.

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We have already seen the brutal impact of the aggressive immigration enforcement across the country. Too many have lost ...
01/24/2026

We have already seen the brutal impact of the aggressive immigration enforcement across the country. Too many have lost their lives. Too many have been torn apart. But other effects are slower to show up.

Lost income, instability, survival economies, and increased vulnerability.

History reminds us that when systems push communities into precarity, young people carry the consequences for years. Even now, our communities are still reeling from the war on drugs.

This war on immigrants, too, will have lasting effects. That is why we need to act now. To show courage in protecting one another and making sure the young people in our communities know that they can rush to us in moments of crisis.

When harmful ideas surface in close spaces, when violence is minimized, or when fear is passed down as fact, speaking up...
01/21/2026

When harmful ideas surface in close spaces, when violence is minimized, or when fear is passed down as fact, speaking up can feel risky. We worry about conflict. About being misunderstood. About losing closeness.
But staying silent has a cost, too.

Courage is not about perfection or confrontation. It’s about the responsibility to ourselves, to our communities, and to the young people who are always paying attention to what we tolerate.

Change doesn’t begin with grand gestures. It begins with practice. With choosing honesty over avoidance. With protecting safety, even when comfort would be easier.

Standing up in close community is not betrayal. It’s care. And sometimes, it’s the first step toward breaking cycles that were never meant to be carried forward.

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We are opening this year at a moment that is asking something of all of us.Courage doesn’t always look loud, and it does...
01/13/2026

We are opening this year at a moment that is asking something of all of us.

Courage doesn’t always look loud, and it doesn’t mean putting yourself in harm’s way. Courage looks like standing taller than fear.

Over the last year, and again this week in Minnesota, communities facing violence and intimidation meant to silence them have refused to disappear. They have borne witness. They have documented. They have stayed rooted in truth.

This courage is practiced. For many of us who have survived exploitation and violence, it is something we learn over time: how to name harm, how to interrupt abuse, how to link arms and protect each other.

Still, this year will test us — politically, socially, morally. The question isn’t whether harm will exist. It’s how much of it we are willing to tolerate, ignore, or normalize. And how tall we are willing to rise together — undeterred, powerful, and committed to protection in the face of state and interpersonal violence.

At MISSSEY, we have returned from our break ready to show up. To stand in. To protect our communities and the young people in them.

We open this year committed to courage that is collective, intentional, and rooted in care.
What about you?

As the year comes to a close, MISSSEY will be taking a brief pause. Our office is closed from December 22 to January 5 s...
12/22/2025

As the year comes to a close, MISSSEY will be taking a brief pause. Our office is closed from December 22 to January 5 so our hardworking team can rest, reflect, and restore.

This year was not easy — especially for young people and communities already stretched thin by instability, violence, and systemic neglect. But even in the face of it all, MISSSEY showed up strong.

We rose to meet the moment with care, creativity, and unwavering commitment to the safety and dignity of Black girls and gender-expansive youth — strengthening preventative supports and creating safer places for young people to land.

Now, we rest — not because the work is done, but because rest makes us stronger. It allows us to return with renewed energy, clarity, and love for the communities we serve.

Thank you to our youth, supporters, partners, and community for walking with us through a hard and powerful year. We’ll see you soon — rested, grounded, and ready for what’s next.

Continue to support survivor-centered care by donating at misssey.org.

When young people don’t have safe, stable places to sleep, recover, and exist without fear, their vulnerability to viole...
12/18/2025

When young people don’t have safe, stable places to sleep, recover, and exist without fear, their vulnerability to violence and exploitation increases.

Black girls and gender-expansive youth are often expected to be resilient at the expense of their safety — navigating harm while being denied rest, care, and stability.

At MISSSEY, we believe safety looks like housing, community, choice, and the freedom to rest without consequences.

Care is prevention. Stability is protection. Rest is a right.
Support survivor-centered care by donating today at misssey.org

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