Is Garden Gate Ranch's continuing restoration program for me?

• Are you 18 or over?
• Are you expecting a child or do you have a child that is 4 years old or younger in your care or are you working with another agency to be reunified?
• Are you okay with a faith-based program?
• Are you okay with locating to rural Iowa?
• Have you ever experienced sexual exploitation?
  • Did you ever have to have sex to meet your needs or in exchange for something of value (money, food, shelter/housing, substances, gifts, and/or favors)?
  • Did someone threaten to harm you, your family or someone else if you did not preform sexual acts?

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If you answered yes to all of these questions, we want to hear from you. If you'd like to apply, contact us today by calling 515-393-8400 or emailing info@gardengateranch.com.

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What is sex trafficking?

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.

Human trafficking: 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.

Definitions from the U.S. Department of State​

What is sexual exploitation?

Sexual exploitation: Actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, power, or trust, for sexual purposes, including, but not limited to, profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the sexual exploitation of another.

Sexual abuse: Actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions.

​Definitions from the World Health Organization