Addressing Human Trafficking in Orlando

In our city, and across Florida, the fight against human trafficking is both urgent and deeply personal.

Recent data suggests that more than 700,000 individuals are exploited in Florida each year, including around 200,000 in sex trafficking, with minors making up nearly half. Florida consistently ranks among the highest in the nation for trafficking cases, making this a critical issue in our own communities.

In the last five years, NCFO givers have deployed over $3.2 million to organizations fighting this issue in our city, but there is still so much work to be done.

That is because it’s a challenge far too complex for any one organization, or any one giver, to solve alone. Addressing human trafficking requires a continuum of care — a coordinated effort that spans every stage of a survivor’s journey:

• Prevention — Equipping communities and protecting the vulnerable
• Intervention — Identifying and removing individuals from exploitation
• Restoration — Providing safe housing, counseling, and support
• Reintegration — Helping survivors rebuild their lives with dignity and stability

This kind of holistic, wraparound care means no single organization can do it all. Instead, it requires meaningful collaboration across ministries, each playing a unique and vital role while working together toward lasting freedom and healing.

One of the ways NCF Orlando supports this work is through our partnership with Mission Increase Orlandoopens in a new tab, which exists to equip nonprofit leaders with biblically grounded strategies to operate more effectively and sustainably. Over the past seven years, Mission Increase has helped cultivate networks of ministries focused on some of Orlando’s most pressing challenges, including human trafficking.

As Kyle Cousinsopens in a new tab, who leads Mission Increase Orlando, shares: “Disrupting the exploitation industry requires more than a few organizations to be resourced and operating simultaneously along the continuum of care, from prevention and intervention all the way to restoration and reintegration. Because this work involves caring for people in some of their darkest moments, the process is anything but simple. Our hope is a unified effort, not just among nonprofits, but also with givers, businesses, and the local church, trusting God to multiply the impact.”

Through the Mission Increase Anti-Trafficking Network, organizations like One Purseopens in a new tab, Harbour Hopeopens in a new tab, EPIK Projectopens in a new tab, Stay with Meopens in a new tab, United Abolitionistsopens in a new tab, and Samaritan Villageopens in a new tab are coming together in fellowship, prayer, and strategic collaboration to serve survivors more effectively.

When ministries are equipped and connected, they are better positioned to provide true wraparound care — meeting not just immediate needs, but walking with survivors over time toward lasting healing and independence.

This is where collaboration becomes powerful:

• Organizations can specialize without working in isolation
• Survivors experience continuity of care instead of gaps in support
• Resources are stewarded more effectively across the ecosystem
• Givers are invited into a larger, unified story of impact

Through partnerships like these, we are seeing hope renewed and lives restored! We are continually inspired by how God is moving through His people to protect the vulnerable and bring justice, and we invite you to be part of that story.

Research trusted anti-human trafficking organizations in our community and explore how you can engage in and support this work.

If you are interested in learning more, reach out to Kyle at kcousins@missionincrease.org.opens in a new tab