Replication and Enhancement of a Long-Term Safe Home for Women Survivors at Short Creek Dream Center - Paste this into the **Project Abstract** box: The Dream Institute, operating through Short Creek Dream Center, requests $552,884 over 24 months to replicate and enhance a long-term safe-home model within its existing women’s residential recovery program at 980 West Field Avenue in Hildale, Utah. The project will designate 12 existing beds within the current 40-bed women’s residence for adult women who have experienced sexual exploitation, trafficking, and abuse. No construction or new physical beds are proposed. Federal funding will support the portion of existing residential operations attributable to the 12 designated beds, together with specialized enhancements required for a survivor-centered safe-home model. These enhancements will include trafficking- and trauma-informed screening, individualized service planning, case management, licensed clinical services, peer support, trained residential staffing, safety and confidentiality protocols, healthcare coordination, education and vocational services, transportation, and permanent-housing transition planning. The project will serve women from the rural Utah-Arizona border region, including Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, where long-term specialized residential options are limited. Short Creek Dream Center already operates long-term residential recovery services and regularly serves women who self-report trafficking, exploitation, and abuse histories. This award will formalize a distinct safe-home cohort within existing capacity, strengthen the quality and consistency of services, improve coordination with victim-service, healthcare, behavioral-health, education, workforce, and law-enforcement partners, and establish project-specific outcome tracking. Anticipated outcomes include sustained access to 12 long-term safe-home placements, improved resident safety and stability, increased engagement in trauma-focused treatment, progress toward education and employment goals, stronger financial and independent-living skills, and successful transitions to safe, stable housing. The project will use a separate grant cost center and participant designation to track allowable costs, services, and outcomes while avoiding duplication with other federal or state funding.
