Safe Harbor regional Navigator Services
​Strengthening the regional response to preventing sex trafficking and exploitation of minnesota youth

Do you feel unsafe? 

24/7 Crisis Hotline

Call (612) 813-5030
​Are you or someone you know experiencing sexual exploitation, or at-risk?

​We offer confidential services for youth and young adults ages 10-24, with our shelter open 24/7.

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safe Harbor
​East Metro Service Area

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Learn More

• State of MN Department of Health: Safe Harbor
• Safe Harbor Communications Toolkit (PDF): 
• Find your Safe Harbor Region
• Olmsted County Victim Services
• The Advocates for Human Rights: Safe Harbor Resource Pack
• Busting Myths About Sex Trafficking
• Minnesota Student Survey
• Working with Sex Trafficking Survivors 
• Free Rides to Get Runaway Youth Home

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180 Degrees, Inc. is Minnesota’s Safe Harbor Navigator for the East Metro region. The Safe Harbor Navigator works with youth-serving agencies across the Twin Cities' East Metro region to strengthen the coordinated response to end sex trafficking of youth.  

Human trafficking is a human rights violation. It includes the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining a person for a commercial sex act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion -- and any commercial sex act if the person is under 18. 

180 Degrees Safe Harbor services team in the East Metro includes a Regional Navigator, a mobile Case Manager and crisis response staff. Together, they foster a stronger service response in the region for victims of sex trafficking, providing training and case consultation to any organization working with sexually exploited youth. In addition, they provide direct service youth experiencing or at-risk of sex trafficking.  
Services include:

• ​A 24-hour crisis line
• Service referrals for youth 10-24 years old, of any gender, who have experienced or are at-risk of sex trafficking
• Crisis outreach, intervention and support for youth
• Connections to shelter, housing and longer-term services for youth
• Emergency shelter, in-shelter trauma-informed programming and case management, and after care for youth 19 years old and younger who reside at 180 Degrees' Brittany's Place Emergency Shelter
• Training, protocol development and capacity-building for organizations working with youth 
• Expertise in identifying, building relationships with, and supporting youth who have experienced sex trafficking and exploitation
• Case consultations to organizations working with youth experiencing or at-risk of trafficking and exploitation

More than 800 youth under 18 have accessed safety and healing from the trauma of sex trafficking and exploitation through 180 Degrees Safe Harbor services. 
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Services include street outreach, emergency shelter and Transitional Living at Brittany's Place, parent support for   ​

Organizational Training & Resources

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Are you a government agency, community-based organization, or concerned citizen and looking for more information on prevention and/or intervention to support victims of sex trafficking? As Safe Harbor East Metro Regional Navigator, 180 Degrees is your main contact for: 

• Consultation, if you know a survivor or at-risk youth
• Referral services
• Case management
• Protocol development for your organization
• Outreach organizing 
• Community organizing 

contact

​180 Degrees, Safe Harbor Services
East Metro Regional Navigator
(651) 382-6056 
[email protected] ​

Testimonials

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​ “I was fearful for my life and didn’t know where to turn. I called the 180 Degrees Regional Navigator. She helped me find a safe place and worked with me to get regular support, including a counselor. I’m in a much better place today.”   
​David, age 24   

"I thought I could survive on my own but I was wrong.  After just one month at Brittany's Place, I'm safe. I'm back in school, and I am looking for a part-time job.  That's a game-changer for me."  
Shari, age 16