​Garden Gate Ranch is a faith-based Christian organization providing safe housing and restorative and transitional services for sexually-exploited women and their children.
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Garden Gate Ranch seeks to rally our communities to ensure that all women are free from exploitation and abuse.​
Incredibly exciting news!
This space, where our admin team is standing, will soon be Garden Gate Ranch's Education Center! ​We can't believe it—God is advancing His vision for GGR yet again. A HUGE thanks to the Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Inc. for awarding Garden Gate Ranch a grant that funds this project, up to $150,000! Our team is beyond excited. We can't wait to see this building created, its rooms allowing for curriculum and academic space for residents, work space for volunteers, and office/meeting space for staff. Again and again and again, thank you to the Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for making our next steps possible.
The Annual Eyes Wide Open Conference
Sex trafficking didn't take a break during COVID. Learn more about what it is, what it's not, and how to protect yourself online. Garden Gate Ranch is hosting this free virtual event, and is pleased to partner with The Set Me Free Project to provide relevant and practical content. During this virtual conference, you will learn:
  • What the grooming process is and how traffickers use social media to groom our kids.
  • The science of social media and how social media affects our youth.
  • Sexual images + social media and how to discuss this with our youth.
  • Common myths and the correlating facts about human trafficking.
This event is free, but registration is required in order to receive the Zoom link.
HOW DO WE HELP?

Garden Gate Ranch has 2 unique programs —an Immediate Rescue Program and a Continuing Restoration Program—designed to foster safe spaces and healthy opportunities in which every program participant can heal, grow, and be free.

Garden Gate Ranch's approach is unique in that it offers immediate rescue for survivors, admits survivors with children into the restoration program, and provides time and space for transitional living before survivors set out on their own again.

THE PATHWAY HOUSE
IMMEDIATE RESCUE PROGRAM (currently not in operation)​

​Who We Will Serve:
  • Women 18+ who need immediate shelter
  • With or without children
How We Will Serve:
  • Offer a secure and safe home environment
  • Meet basic needs such as clothing, meals, health, beauty aids, and transportation
  • Assist her in choosing the next step
Services We Will Offer:
  • Assist in offering choices to community services such as medical, housing, transportation, counseling, therapy, and continuing restoration programs
Stay Length: Approximately  14 Days
The Pathway House will be a 24-hour immediate rescue home intended to get her off the street and into safety as she begins her path to wholeness. At The Pathway House, we will work with local community services and collaborate with other residential restoration homes across the U.S. to offer her choices in her recovery, should she choose that path.

THE RANCH HOUSE
CONTINUING RESTORATION PROGRAM (Open April 2020)

Who We Serve:
  • Women 18+
  • With children ages 4 and under or pregnant
How We Serve:
  • Strength-based, trauma-informed services
  • Holistic healing: 7 Pillars to a Restored Life
Services We Offer - The 7 Pillars:
  • Physical needs and safety
  • Medical & psychological treatment
  • Spiritual & emotional counseling
  • Social formation
  • Legal assistance
  • Education
  • Social development & career planning
Stay Length: *Approximately 12 Months
The Ranch House is a continuing restoration home in rural Iowa for women 18 and over who either have children (ages 4 and under) or are pregnant. The Ranch House is available to each survivor for as *long or as little as she needs, giving each woman the opportunity to grow and heal at her own pace. Each woman will have a personally designed healing path built according to her needs and designed by the expert, HER. The Ranch House provides: strength-based, trauma-informed care; individual, group, and family counseling; healing and encouraging prayer; and therapies such as EMDR, art, dance, music, culinary, pet, gardening, equine, and the like. Education and career training will also be available for each woman, along with classes in household management, budgeting, financial wisdom, parenting, and more. Our ranch will be full of opportunities for each and every woman to have the space she needs to discover, refresh, and renew her body, soul, and spirit.

THE COTTAGES
CONTINUING RESTORATION PROGRAM - INDEPENDENT TRANSITIONAL LIVING (currently not in operation) 

Who We Will Serve:
  • ​Women who have graduated from The Ranch House
How We Will Serve:
  • Independent cottage and transportation
  • Child care for her children
  • With continued support, she attends school or works in the local area
​Stay Length: Approximately 6 Months
The Garden Gate Ranch Independent Cottages will offer each Ranch House graduate the opportunity to further her independence without losing her support system. Each graduate will walk out her newfound freedom in work or continued education with the safety and support of her Garden Gate Ranch community around her. While in The Cottages, she will be assisted with personal living quarters, transportation, and childcare for her children until she feels ready to stand on her own. 
WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
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The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. This modern slave trade is a threat to all nations. A grave human rights abuse, it promotes the breakdown of families and communities, fuels organized crime, deprives countries of human capital, undermines public health, creates opportunities for extortion and subversion among government officials, and imposes large economic costs.

​Sex trafficking: in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.