Street Grace is a faith-based organization leading churches, community organizations and individual volunteers on a comprehensive path to end the domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) in Metro Atlanta and throughout the United States.

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DMST is defined as:

  • Sexual activity involving a child in exchange for something of value, or the promise thereof, to the child or another person or persons

  • Treating a child as a commercial (commodity/product) and sexual object

  • A form of violence against children

                                              

HISTORY & FACTS

* In 2000, Fulton County Chief Juvenile Court Judge Nina Hickson was appalled as she presided over the 1,000th case of child prostitution that had come before her. 

* In 2005, then Mayor Shirley Franklin commissioned a report known as “Hidden in Plain View,” which revealed the pervasiveness of the domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) issue in Atlanta. She appealed to the faith community to help fight DMST.

* With support from the Atlanta Regional Council of Churches, two “Faith Summits” were hosted in 2007 and 2008 to discuss the DMST issue.

* A group of eight churches hired a consultant to develop a strategic plan for churches to work together with the public, private and non-profit sectors to bring an end to DMST in Atlanta. The result was Street GRACE, which received independent 501(c) 3 status in 2009.


 

Dr. Scott Weimer, Cheryl De-Luca Johnson, Randy Pope and others discuss the formation of the Street Grace ministry.