
Jen Cecil, the Executive Director of After Hours, and Julia Speck Attalla, Associate Director of After Hours, describe the origins and nature of After Hours and how they got involved with it in the first place.
Engage in street outreach to women and men involved in prostitution in Los Angeles, offering gift bags and hotline access. Foster relationships through spiritual formation, aftercare, and community partnerships.
Help assemble and donate gift bags for women reached through After Hours ministry, using clear bags with travel-size items, candy, and a hotline card.
Practice radical hospitality in real time by embodying 'with' over 'for,' embracing the imago Dei, vulnerability, and intentional relationships to serve the sexually exploited with love.
Explore current trends in prostitution, sex trafficking, and sexual exploitation, including pimp controlled prostitution and coercion, with global, California, and U.S. statistics for after hours ministry outreach.
Explore how disconnection and vulnerability drive women into sexual exploitation, examine pimp recruitment tactics, and reveal the cycles of abuse, violence, and barriers to escape.
Two blog posts written by one of the women we work with explaining their perspective and some of the things they wish we understood.
Expose how a girl endures rape and coercion by a boyfriend and pimp, revealing the harsh realities of street life, survival, and limited opportunities.
Learn to recognize signs of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Distinguish trafficking from prostitution and take practical steps, including calling the national human trafficking hotline to report concerns.
Explore how the game’s language reveals the life of those enslaved to prostitution, detailing pimps, tricks, johns, branding, coercion, and the cycle of abuse.
learn practical outreach techniques for ministering to women on the track, including respectful introductions, giving gift bags, listening, praying, and guiding toward long-term help.
Address the cycle of violence in prostitution by exploring the perpetrator, including johns and pimps, and promoting healing and redemption through authentic love and transformation inspired by spiritual renewal.
Ministry to the sexually exploited is becoming very popular but people can do more harm than good if they are not adequately prepared to holistically minister to the complexity of issues facing the sexually exploited. Through this faith-based curriculum, you will be trained how to adequately prepare yourself in addressing the complexity of needs facing those who are sexually exploited. This is also a required training for those wishing to volunteer with After Hours Ministry