Education United States Project #47522

Children of the Night Tutoring-High School Diploma

by Children of the Night, Inc

Children of the Night Tutoring-High School Diploma

Project Report | May 17, 2021
Children of the Night's 2020 Domestic Tutoring

By Dr. Lois Lee | Founder & President

Young Woman Testing for GED At Our Headquarters

Our FREE tutoring through ZOOM tutors sex trafficking victims for the high school diploma – the first step in escaping the streets. The high school diploma enables them to enter the military or work in support positions in medicine or law; attend vocational or trade school and even community college.

Our students are unable to attend regular school because of extensive existing trauma and an on-going chaotic lifestyle so our case management program dovetails with our High School Diploma tutoring.

Children of the Night Domestic Online ZOOM Tutoring for the High School Diploma

In 2011, Dr. Lois Lee created an innovative means to reaching more child sex trafficking victims with relevant, cost-effective programs offering permanent solutions to escaping prostitution.

Our ZOOM high school diploma tutoring prepares the youth for their State’s High School Equivalency Exam and once passed allows the student to qualify for job opportunities in the military, law enforcement, corrections, law firms and many medical fields. This diploma is essential for enrollment in a vocational/trade school or community college.

There are NO FEES attached to our program. The only requirement is that the student must be available for three one-hour sessions per week.
Our tutors are supervised at our Los Angeles headquarters and our students can reach their tutor from any computer, tablet, or cell phone with a WIFI connection from wherever they are. To further assist the students, we pay for textbooks and school supplies like calculators, notebooks, pens, and highlighters.
Our case managers assist with resumes, job applications, clothing for work, transportation to work, childcare, college applications, even FAFSA (federal financial aid); they buy books and school supplies to support the advancement of our youth.

Our case management program dovetails with our educational services to provide comprehensive support throughout the United States for continuity and opportunity to permanently escape prostitution.

Young Woman Just Graduated High School Equivalency

Freedom from Prostitution

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Jan 20, 2021
Children of the Night's 2020 Domestic Tutoring

By Dr. Lois Lee | Founder & President

Youth Taking The High School Equivalency Exam

Young sex trafficking victims are unable to attend regular school because of trauma and chaotic lifestyles. Our case management is critical to the stabilization of students who need skills to escape prostitution.

Our FREE, ONE on ONE, ONLINE TUTORING program is portable anywhere in the world and a student may sign-in via email just prior to each tutoring session no matter where they are located. By using Zoom online video communications, the student works face to face with their personalized tutor 2 to 3 times a week.

There are no fees. A student only needs a mobile device and Wi-Fi and a commitment to 2 to 3 hours a week of consistent tutoring. Most students can successfully pass the high school equivalency with 50 hours of tutoring – the cost of $750.

Supervised tutoring is provided online from our headquarters in Los Angeles, California and our tutoring is 24/7 in ANY language.

Many of our students have the SAME TUTOR throughout their education with us.

Children of the Night WOW even helps with college applications and federal financial aid so the gatekeepers to legitimate jobs and mainstream society can no longer lock these children out of a future.

Since 2011, Children of the Night has helped over 250 young sex trafficking victims pass the High School Equivalency Exam.

In 2020 there were 3,186 tutoring hours provided to 112 students in 15 states. Despite COVID challenges, 15 passed the high school equivalency and 31 passed portions of the high school equivalency exam (4 portions).

There were 97 female students, 14 male and 1 transgender making up Latino's, African Americans and Caucasians respectively.

58% of these young people were between 16 and 24 years of age. They were referred mostly by Social Workers, Friends, Relatives, Drop In Centers, Alumni of the Children of the Night program, Drug Programs and others.

Our domestic tutors at work

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Children of the Night's Domestic Tutoring Program

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Sep 28, 2020
Tutoring for Prostituted Youth in the USA

By Dr. Lois Lee | Founder & President

Tutors Working From Our Headquarters

From January 1, 2020 to September 18, 2020 there have been 2105 tutoring hours to 93 prostituted youth in 14 states.

These youth have been tutored for the high school equivalency exam in their home state.

88% were female

10% were male

2% were transgender

Our prostituted youth are made up of Latinos, African Americans, and Caucasians primarily.

They come from all over the United States 37% from Los Angeles and 20% from Florida.

They are referred by Social Workers, friends, relatives, other prostituted youth who have completed our program, drug programs, schools, drop-in centers, and other agencies or advocates.

Iris, 19 years old, was introduced to prostitution when she was 12 years old.

An older teencame to live with her family and gave her a Xanax and introduced her to prostitution. When she woke up, she had money.

Currently she is in extended foster care, but government is limited in providing immediate and one on one assistance. ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL.

When she called, she was desperate for help with food, a job, clothing, and a long-term housing placement. She wanted to go back to prostitution for food to eat and our case managers said, “You don’t have to do that, we will help you.”

Iris needed transportation to and from her eye doctors, and we also paid for her glasses. We gave her job leads, COVID 19 supplies and sent progress reports to her social worker to demonstrate her efforts and assure her benefits were not cut.

Social workers have resources but lack the time required to provide the extensive ONE ON ONE communication required to raise a child and to help a child transition to a successful adult life.

Children of the Night provides these essential services and most importantly TIME – 24 hours/7 days a week whether it is a nightmare, bad boyfriend, or worse. And Iris has a boyfriend who will not leave her alone, a problem with her father and no one to talk to about these issues.

She has been diagnosed with depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder and her social worker has provided a therapist 1 hour a week but she needs daily support to get through each day and the $200 a month government allowance is just not enough.

Iris was frustrated with her ZOOM tutoring because her government funded housing created WIFI interference, so our case managers upgraded her WIFI.

Iris began tutoring for the High School Equivalency exam the first part of August and she was testing at a 7^th grade reading level. In one short month we have her reading level up and she is ready to test for the GED – High School Equivalency Reading section.

The positive effect of Children of the Night, in the lives of children who are dependent upon government assistance, is a testament of the need to augment government services with a private sector initiative to make the difference between life and death.

Jenny’s mother was a prostitute and sold her to men when she was 8 years old.

The Department of Children and Family Services removed Jenny from her mother’s care and placed her with her father.

In high school she met a pimp and when she called the hotline our case managers successfully identified a safe shelter.

Her pimp stole everything from her including her birth certificate, identification, and clothing.

When she escaped him, she left with nothing but the clothes on her back.

We applied for her birth certificate and replacement identification. We provided her with clothing and a grocery gift card for food and hygiene items. Our case workers identified long-term housing for Jenny so we could begin her stabilization.

Caseworkers assisted Jenny with an application for benefits from the social security office and identified a therapist because she has been diagnosed with PTSD, depression, anxiety, anger, and behavioral problems.

Our case managers provided her with transportation to her medical appointments and paid for her glasses.

We enrolled Jenny in our ZOOM one on one high school equivalency tutoring program and despite all the trauma and drama in her life she is ready to take her first exam.

Jenny is consistent in her tutoring and obtaining a high school diploma is important to her because it offers a permanent solution to prostitution.

Because the government continues to open and close testing sites, Children of the Night has opened its headquarters as a testing site and been joined by an IT company in Santa Clarita as a testing site for kids in Palmdale & Lancaster and Now a law firm in Chicago, Ilinois. We continue to look for a corporate partner in Florida.

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