Dr. Sandie Morgan is joined by Kelsey Morgan and the two discuss the importance of measuring survivor progress.
Kelsey Morgan
Kelsey Morgan is EverFree co-founder and Chief Program Officer. In 2015, Kelsey founded Willow International to meet the growing demand for quality aftercare and to transform the systems that fuel trafficking. In 2021, Kelsey teamed up with Jeremy Floyd, CEO of 10ThousandWindows, to unite their two organizations to become EverFree. Kelsey is currently pursuing her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.
Key Points

It is important to include survivors in the process of creating a tool to connect them with resources. 
Research shows that support for survivors of trafficking does not aid in providing them with lasting freedom, something that EverFree has set out to do. 
The Freedom Greenlight tool and program was created to be easy to use and incorporates survivor voices. 
Direct feedback from the survivor is given when using the Freedom Greenlight tool, to give the survivor individualized resources that will create lasting freedom.
The Freedom Greenlight program has adaptations in USA, Uganda, Philippines, Mexico, Bolivia, Kenya, and Cambodia.

Resources

Everfree
Willow International 
10ThousandWindows 
UCI School of Social Ecology 
Poverty Stoplight Tool 
OrangeWood Foundations
Freedom Greenlight Program 
Six Dimensions of Wellness

Transcript
Sandra Morgan 0:00
You're listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode #305: Measuring Victim Service Progress, with Kelsey Morgan.

Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast here at Vanguard University's Global Center for Women and Justice in Orange County, California. This is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. I am so pleased to have my good friend and colleague, Kelsey Morgan for this interview. Kelsey is EverFree co-founder and chief program officer. In 2015 Kelsey founded Willow International to meet the growing demand for quality after care, and to transform the systems that fuel trafficking. In 2021, Kelsey teamed up with Jeremy Floyd, CEO of 10ThousandWindows, to unite their two organizations to become EverFree. Kelsey is currently pursuing her PhD from the University of California, Irvine. Thank you Kelsey for joining me today. I'm so excited to talk about the research that you've been doing. But before we get there, do you want to give us a little more background on how you became an advocate, a practitioner, and a researcher?

Kelsey Morgan 2:02
Thank you so much, Sandie. I'm so happy to be here with you and I would love to. So long story short, I am from Orange County, I learned about human trafficking in 2006, it changed my life, ended up changing my career trajectory, and I moved to Uganda, where I became the director of an aftercare program there. During my time on the ground, this was in 2010, I was really discouraged by the lack of evidence around what programs were effective in supporting survivors into a lifetime of lasting freedom. The team and I, on the ground of Uganda national staff, we developed programs, and we saw that they were working, but we wanted to figure out why they were working. What was special about them? We wanted to find tools to measure program outcomes and we wanted to include survivors in that process. We wanted to have them be the ones leading the process. So I moved back to Orange County and it was actually through our mutual friend Maria Hernandez, that I went knocking on the door of UCI's School of Social Ecology, asking if maybe some grad students would come help me with this idea. It was the Dean of Social Ecology at the time, Nancy Guerra, who said, "Kelsey, if you want to do this, you are the right person to do it." She marched me into admissions and we set out, through a PhD education, to develop a tool to help us connect survivors with the r...