Dream Youth Clinic in Oakland launched a mobile clinic offering free reproductive health services to teens and young women who’ve experienced sex trafficking, and it also recently hosted a first-ever town hall providing a forum for girls to speak directly to local leaders.
As the Oaklandside reports, the nonprofit Dream Youth Clinic, which formed in 2017, provides medical and reproductive health services for vulnerable girls, young women, and gender-expansive youth in Oakland, primarily those who’ve experienced sex-trafficking.
The clinic recently hosted a town hall inviting local leaders, including Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, Department of Violence Prevention Chief Holly Joshi, Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, and Councilmember Charlene Wang, to hear directly from girls and young women about their experiences surrounding sex-trafficking in Oakland. Per the Oaklandside, the young speakers pushed Mayor Lee and her colleagues to invest in services that focus on prevention, education, and support for survivors of sex trafficking…