Survivors Pathway

Survivors Pathway is a local Justice Center, nonprofit 501C (3) organization founded in 2010 with the purpose of delivering culturally specific trauma informed mental health and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and other violent crimes. Survivors Pathway has focused on delivering services to highly marginalized victims/ survivors from the Latino and from the LGBTQIA+ communities in Miami Dade County. The impact of Survivors Pathway in the community is evidenced by the number of victims served per year. For instance, during the year 2018 Survivors Pathway served 1900 victims of different crimes through our six community programs: Trauma Informed Mental health, Victims' advocacy, support groups, HIV/AIDS testing, counseling and prevention, Human trafficking and community outreach programs.
Mental health services are delivered in our main facility located in Dade County; however, we facilitate the access to services by delivering advocacy and mental health services at victim's homes in Dade and Broward county. Currently, Survivors Pathway's home-based services program serves 70% of the victims assisted in the two counties where the institution offers its services. Advocacy services are delivered at the organization headquarters and the Miami Dade County eleventh circuit of the court, domestic violence unit. Survivors' Pathway programs are very well known within the Latino community in Florida, it has become a bridge that facilitates the communication between LGBTQI and Latino victims/survivors of crimes from the communities and the law enforcement. This process has demonstrated to be very effective in increasing access to justice to victims, reducing significantly barriers that historically have impaired the most marginalized members from seeking and successfully accessing resources around them.