About Us
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Keeping Every Girl Free is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping survivors of domestic abuse, exploitation, or human trafficking reclaim their freedom, dignity, and purpose.
Guided by faith and compassion, we provide trauma-informed support, advocacy, and essential resources that empower survivors to move from crisis to healing and restoration.
Through prevention, awareness, and education, we equip individuals, families, and communities to recognize and prevent exploitation before it begins.
Your generosity makes this work possible. Every gift helps provide hope, healing, and life-changing support for survivors while strengthening efforts to protect those most vulnerable.
Together, we can break cycles of exploitation, restore lives, and build safer communities.
Meet Our Team
Our team is comprised of survivors and dedicated advocates each carrying a story marked by resilience, courage, and transformation. Every member has fought to move from surviving to thriving, and together we bring lived expertise, professional skill, and unwavering compassion to this work.
United by a shared purpose, we are committed to offering strength, hope, and empowerment to individuals rebuilding their lives after trauma and exploitation. As a survivor‑led team, we cultivate healing, freedom, and lasting resilience, ensuring every person we serve is met with dignity and the support they need to heal forward.
April Casillas
April Casillas is the Founder of Keeping Every Girl Free, a dynamic speaker, nationally recognized restorative justice advocate, and lived-experience expert in commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and human trafficking. Drawing from both professional expertise and lived experience, she equips agencies, schools, justice partners, churches, and community organizations with the knowledge and tools needed to respond to trauma, exploitation, and harm with dignity, compassion, and accountability.
Grounded in years of frontline advocacy and survivor-centered leadership, April specializes in trauma-informed practice, restorative justice, complex case strategy, systems navigation, and cross-sector collaboration. Her work focuses on strengthening responses to exploitation and violence while helping organizations build pathways that promote healing, resilience, safety, and long-term stability for survivors and their families.
A trusted educator, consultant, and thought leader, April is sought after for training, strategic planning, and systems-change initiatives. She has partnered with prosecutors, public defenders, law enforcement agencies, service providers, educators, nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals, and faith communities to improve survivor engagement, strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration, and enhance outcomes for vulnerable populations.
Through her ability to bridge lived experience with professional practice, April helps communities and institutions understand the realities of exploitation, reduce barriers to support, and implement trauma-informed, survivor-centered approaches that foster healing, accountability, and lasting change. Her work empowers organizations to move beyond awareness into meaningful action, creating safer communities and expanding opportunities for prevention, intervention, and restoration.
Cynthia
Cynthia is a dedicated Community Health Worker (CHW), survivor advocate, trainer, and mentor whose work is rooted in compassion, empowerment, and a deep commitment to helping others navigate some of life's most difficult challenges.
Drawing from both her professional experience and personal journey, she provides critical resources, safety planning, advocacy, and individualized support that help survivors and vulnerable individuals move toward healing, stability, and self-sufficiency.
As a survivor herself, Cynthia understands the complexities of navigating systems while rebuilding a life impacted by trauma. Her journey through transitional housing, reunification efforts, and ongoing survivor support has given her a unique perspective and a profound passion for walking alongside others facing similar challenges.
She is especially dedicated to supporting single mothers and their children, helping families overcome barriers, access resources, strengthen family connections, and build a foundation for long-term stability and success.
Known for her attention to detail and trauma-informed approach, Cynthia excels at helping individuals navigate complex systems, coordinate services, and develop practical pathways toward safety and healing. Her heart lies in building bridges between survivors and the systems designed to support them, helping individuals feel seen, heard, and empowered throughout the process.
In addition to her direct service work, Cynthia is a skilled trainer and facilitator who equips service providers, community partners, and multidisciplinary teams with survivor-centered practices that promote dignity, accountability, and effective support. Through education, collaboration, and advocacy, she works to strengthen communities, improve outcomes for survivors and families, and foster environments where healing and restoration can flourish.
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Morgan
Morgan brings a blend of organizational insight and creative problem‑solving to her administrative role. With experience in organization, internal communications, and data‑informed workflow support, she helps our team streamline processes, strengthen internal systems, and stay connected to the individuals we serve.
Known for her thoughtful approach and strong attention to detail, Morgan supports day‑to‑day operations that enhance efficiency, improve communication, and ensure projects move forward smoothly. Her work helps the organization stay aligned with its mission, maintain a consistent presence, and operate with clarity and purpose.
Our Impact
2025
Full Impact Report
At Keeping Every Girl Free, compassion in action is more than a value — it’s the way we honor survivors, build trust with our community, and ensure every resource leads to real, measurable change. Below you’ll find our most recent data, student feedback, and the outcomes your support makes possible.
150
Survivors Served
200+
Students Received HT Awareness
23
Survivor Scholarships Provided
89%
donations directly to survivor services
Services
Explore our range of comprehensive consulting services designed to address survivors specific needs and sustainable growth
Trauma‑informed recovery and relocation support that moves survivors from crisis to safety, healing, and long‑term stability. Your support becomes the moment someone’s story turns toward hope.
Survivor Assistance Fund
Sponsor A Survivor
This fund supports survivors receiving trauma‑informed case management—whether they’re completing Ending The Game, advancing through Elevate Academy, removing branding tattoos, or navigating court. Your sponsorship helps a survivor feel seen, supported, and strengthened as they rebuild their life.
A survivor‑centered scholarship that supports education, professional development, and long‑term stability. Your generosity becomes part of their journey toward freedom and flourishing.
Survivor Scholarship
Your car can change someone’s life. By donating an operable vehicle, you give a survivor safe transportation for work, school, and daily stability. We take care of the paperwork and smog check, and you receive a tax‑deductible receipt.
Donate A Vehicle
Your generosity does more than meet a need—it changes the trajectory of a survivor’s life. When you give, you create safety in moments of crisis, stability in seasons of rebuilding, and hope where it was once hard to find. Your support fuels mentorship, essential resources, and long‑term pathways to healing and restoration.
Stand with us. Invest in freedom. Become part of a survivor’s story of hope. Your gift today strengthens individuals, families, and entire communities—one life at a time.
Survivor Support
Link Arms for Marina’s Family: Freedom After A Fire
Marina and her family of eight lost everything in a devastating fire—but their hope is still alive. Your support will help them rebuild safety, stability, and freedom in this critical moment. Every gift provides essentials, temporary housing support, and a pathway toward long‑term restoration.
Campaign Link: Support Marina’s Family
Standing With Courage: Support A Survivor Recovery Flight Through Free To Fly
Sponsor an emergency flight today and help provide a safe escape for a survivor on their journey to recovery. Your generosity can save lives and provide a future filled with hope.
This is a meaningful opportunity for our community to come alongside a survivor at a critical moment.
Campaign Link: Standing With Courage
Full Circle OC Tiney Coping Skillz Boxes: Community Care in Action
Each Tiney Coping Skillz Box is filled with intention, encouragement, creativity, self-regulation tools, and reminders that someone matters. These boxes may be small, but the impact they can have on a young persons' day, week, or journey is anything but.
Campaign Link: Little Box. Big Impact
Awareness Education & Training
Education, awareness, and training rooted in a trauma‑informed, survivor‑centered framework are at the heart of our work. Our trainings shine light on the realities of human trafficking, equip communities to recognize and respond to exploitation, and create safer pathways for survivors.
Did you know: Youth between the ages of 12–14 make up the fastest‑growing population vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation. Yet research shows that youth who receive prevention education are up to 70% less likely to be exploited. Prevention isn’t optional—it’s one of the most effective tools we have.
This makes community‑wide awareness not just important, but urgent. When families, schools, churches, and service providers understand the signs, the systems, and the stories, real change becomes possible. Explore the training opportunities available and join us in building informed communities that know how to keep youth and families safe.
Human Trafficking Awareness
Human Trafficking Education
Human Trafficking Training
Youth Feedback
"I'm surprised about the number of minors who are at risk of human trafficking annually according to NCMEC which is 300,000. That is insane and sick! The presentation was explained well."
Veyra - 10th grade
"Nothing could be improved. She did amazing, very clear and loud. My question is why is human trafficking not talked about enough? Thank you for sharing this information with us."
Marleea - 10th grade
"I like how the speaker includes that anyone can be victims and explained the different forms of human trafficking. I also like how the speaker told her story, it made the presentation feel more real."
Vanessa - 10th grade
"Something that surprised me was how young people can be when they get trafficked. Thank you for sharing, I know it's not easy and I'm glad you're helping other people. I hope you also take care of yourself."
Jocelyn - 10th grade
"Human trafficking can happen to anyone, both female and male.
I didn't know there were different forms of human trafficking.
The presentation was explained well and to the point."
Clarissa - 10th grade
"I loved the presentation because it was thorough and personal, making us understand the depth of human trafficking. The presentation helped me better understand exploitation."
Paris - 10th grade
"44% of Human trafficking happens by family members. California has the most reported cases for human trafficking. Thank you for sharing and showing us how to report human trafficking & sextortion."
Tanya - 10th grade
"The presentation is really good to teach students how trafficking works and to be aware of how trafficking can happen in many ways, sometimes without even realizing the different tactics traffickers use."
Keamil - 10th grade
"I really appreciated you sharing your story & telling us all you went through. The way you spoke to us made me feel calm and really dive into wanting to learn more about human trafficking. Thank you for being a reminder to us that even through we may go through something hard in life, we can still live our life and accomplish a lot. Not only that, but also having whatever challenge help you be an inspiration to others who may have gone through the same thing. Thank you so much!"
Amy - 10th grade
"44% of Human trafficking happens by family members. California has the most reported cases for human trafficking. Thank you for sharing and showing us how to report human trafficking & sextortion."
Tanya - 10th grade
"I didn’t know prostitution can be trafficking. We see it everyday and we just think they are working, but they’re going through trauma and abuse just to get money for the pimp."
9th grade student
"Traffickers play with the mind to make victims believe they are responsible for the abuse. The average age of entry into the commercial sex industry is 12-14 years old."
9th grade student
Reading, tools, and pathways that deepen awareness, strengthen prevention, and activate community impact.
At Keeping Every Girl Free, we believe that informed communities create safer communities. This resource hub offers curated reading, survivor‑centered tools, and practical ways to take action.
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Study The Issues, Be A Voice, Make A Difference
A Different Approach to Accountability
OC Human Trafficking Task Force
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The Invisible Movement: Human Trafficking, Transportation, and Human Dignity
Partnerships
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Our work is rooted in strong, collaborative partnerships with agencies, organizations, and leaders who share our commitment to survivor‑centered, trauma‑informed change. Together, we build responses that honor lived experience, strengthen safety, and expand access to meaningful support for those impacted by trauma and exploitation.
These partnerships allow us to create solutions that are compassionate, culturally responsive, and grounded in the real needs of survivors and their families. Each logo below represents a trusted partner who walks alongside us in this mission—contributing to measurable, community‑wide impact and helping ensure that every survivor is met with dignity and care.
To learn more about their work or to connect with support, select any logo to explore their services and resources.
Contact Us
Immediate Help & Support
National Human Trafficking Hotline
Phone
888 3737 888
Text
(HELP) 233733