Poiema Volunteers 2025
Educational and fundraising events rely heavily on volunteers to manage an array of responsibilities from set-up and tear-down at events to greeting, photography, and audio-visual support. Their tireless work allows us to present professional and informative experiences for the broader public and to spread the anti-trafficking message to as many people as possible.
Beyond that, we rely on trained volunteers to distribute posters of missing minors known or suspected to be in their local communities to hotels, bus stations, first responders, and local businesses in high-risk locations throughout Dallas and the surrounding cities. Community outreach teams launch each month from locations in Bedford, Carrollton, Commerce, Dallas, Denton, Frisco, Greenville, Haltom City, Mansfield, Mesquite, Rockwall, Sherman/Denison, Southlake, and Easley, South Carolina. These teams consist of at least one experienced team leader, driver, and data collector, and several teams often launch from the same location to cover as much ground as possible.
The success of our Safe House program is also largely dependent on the support provided by caring volunteers who provide service in both long- and short-term areas such as home and vehicle maintenance, life-skills demonstrations and training (meal prep, budgeting, hair care, interview strategies, etc.), mentoring programs, and educational support. At the heart of everything we do at the Safe House, we are, first and foremost, providing our residents with new models for relationships and community. These new models form the bedrock of any future healing and success and must be learned via daily life and interaction both with qualified and highly trained staff and with the myriad of invested volunteers who give so generously of their time
