-: My name is Jayden.
And I serve as a care coordinator at Switch.
Switch is a Christ-centered nonprofit
that aims to combat sex trafficking
and sexual exploitation
in the upstate of South Carolina.
In house, we also offer a psychiatrist partnership.
We get them connected with peer support
so they can build community
with women who have had
similar experiences as them,
and are in similar stages of life.
And we also offer discipleship.
My position is one of being a support
for the women that I serve.
A lot of these women are coming
from places where they've never had
consistency or stability in their lives,
and I get to provide them with a sense of that.
I offer them a listening ear.
And at times, I'm able to help guide them,
and above all, I honor the choices that they make.
I am working with a woman
who is on the verge of homelessness,
and so I'm getting her connected
with a lot of local housing resources.
She's registered for a particular housing program,
and because of our relationship with that program,
it looks like she'll be getting first pick
on the house that she is looking for.
The first step is usually in prioritizing
what the participants are looking for.
In this particular case,
with this young woman who is need,
in need of housing,
she expressed that this was
one of her top three goals.
And so from there,
I looked at what relationships
we already had established
with community partners.
And if we don't have these relationships,
what can we do to foster them.
Because this is a mission
that we can't accomplish on our own.
And through that partnership,
I get connected through these,
to these community resources,
and just express to them the need
that we're looking to have met.
And we go through that process of interviewing,
applying, and just supporting her.