Motivating Inspiring Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth

Mission

MISSSEY works to prevent girls and gender-expansive youth from ever entering circumstances of sexual exploitation and violence. We also support young people who are experiencing exploitation to exit. Once they’ve exited, we partner with youth so that they may avoid re-entering sexually exploitative circumstances and live free of harmful transactional relationships.

Vision

At MISSSEY, we are determined to create a different world for Black girls and Black gender-expansive youth, one in which they can lead liberated, self-determined, and joyful lives, free from sexual exploitation and violence. We see a world that values rather than commodifies them, that nurtures and honors their ability to build and to sustain thriving communities -- for themselves and for their families. Because we see this world for Black girls, our vision necessarily expands outward to include Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian girls and gender-expansive youth, who are also harmed by intersecting systems of domination, and who also deserve to be liberated, honored, and nurtured.