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.
[1][2] 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.
[12][20] 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.
[4] My Life My Choice uses four main methods to fight back against the commercial sexual exploitation of children: survivor mentorship, education, training and advocacy.
[7][14] The survivor mentorship provides one-on-one support, guidance, tools to become a healthy and successful adult in society, a place of belonging, and a sense of hope for exploited or high risk youth.
[7][14] My Life My Choice has a ten-session nationally acclaimed prevention curriculum that is used to educate and empower youth on recognizing the signs of perpetrators and the dangerous reality of the commercial sex industry.
[24] My Life My Choice partners with other organizations who are also working to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children, for example the SEEN Coalition and the Massachusetts Attorney General's Anti Trafficking Taskforce.
[24] Leadership Corps members engage in a variety of activities including serving on an advisory committee to the SEEN Coalition and the Boston Police Department, meeting with Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III to discuss the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, and creating materials for My Life My Choice to improve their work.
[9] During Episode 1, Blake Lively and Nicholas Kristof visit My Life My Choice to learn about the work they do and to investigate the sexual exploitation of young girls and women.