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My Life My Choice
My Life My Choice (MLMC), a Boston, Massachusetts-based program of the Justice Resource Institute, is a survivor-led non-profit organization fighting to end Commercial sexual exploitation of children. Through their survivor-led model, My Life My Choice provides a continuum of services including survivor mentorship, prevention education, professional training, and advocacy and leadership development.〔 Founded in 2002, My Life My Choice's mission is to harness the strength and power of survivors along with creating a network of allies to fight Commercial sexual exploitation of children My Life My Choice is nationally recognized for its prevention curriculum, which is used to empower and educate youth on recognizing the signs of perpetrators and the dangerous reality of the commercial sex industry.〔 My Life My Choice mentoring services are available for girls ages 12–18 in Eastern Massachusetts and, since the launch of a pilot program in 2014, boys and transgender youth ages 12–18 in the Boston area.
My Life My Choice has been featured in many different media campaigns, including Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's documentary'', A Path Appears'', with Blake Lively. My Life My Choice works to influence legislature and government action, for example Associate Director Audrey Morrissey worked closely with the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Martha Coakley and the My Life My Choice leadership corps discussed the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 with Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III.
== History ==
My Life My Choice was co-founded by Lisa Goldblatt Grace LICSW, MPH in 2002 after the death of a 17-year-old girl, Latasha Cannon. Before her death, Latasha was living at a Child Protective Services funded group home and unknown to adults in her life, was being commercially sexually exploited.〔 After Latasha's brutal murder,〔 Boston's leaders came together and discovered that this was not an isolated incident, it was just one of many similar cases〔 My Life My Choice was born out of Latasha's death to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children.〔 My Life My Choice has grown into a nationally recognized organization in the fight against the commercial sexual exploitation of children.〔〔
In 2006, My Life My Choice was recognized as a national model for sex trafficking prevention by the United States Department of Justice.〔 The My Life My Choice curriculum is being used nationwide as a preventative model to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Additionally, in 2009 My Life My Choice became a part of the Justice Resource Institute.〔 The Justice Resource Institute (JRI) is a non-profit organization in Massachusetts that works in partnership with community members "to pursue the social justice inherent in opening doors to opportunity and independence". My Life My Choice is one of the twelve 'Community Based Behavioral Health Services' programs at the Justice Resource Institute. In 2010, My Life My Choice was recognized as one of Root Cause's Social Innovators of the year.〔 The upward growth of My Life My Choice can also be seen in their 2011 and 2014 award of the highly competitive United States Department of Justice "Mentoring for Child Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Domestic Sex Trafficking Initiative" grant.〔
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