With her hopelessness seared in my mind and without a solution, we returned to the States for a much-needed break. During this time, we discovered that human trafficking is a major problem in our own communities. With up to two million people being trafficked in the United States and a lack of long-term solutions and safe homes, we founded REHOPE.
On a mission to restore survivors, we opened REHOPE Farms, a 17-acre campus offering women long-term housing, therapy, healing and wellness programs, education, and lifelong support. To provide jobs, professional skills training, and reintegration into the community, we launched REHOPE Market, a social enterprise of survivor-made products. We also opened REHOPE Youth, the largest campus in the midwest for the restoration of victimized children providing trauma treatment, education, family reintegration, and advanced, trauma-informed foster/adoptive services. REHOPE has the only facility in the Midwest that accepts boys.
Being an advocate and a strategic partner in this fight, I catalyzed REHOPE University - Center of Excellence in Counter Human Trafficking, which brings together a centralized network of professionals from legal, medical, psychological, prevention, social services, business, law enforcement, judicial, and legislative arenas.
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Realizing a greater, urgent need across the US, I am now consulting those in the fight to abolish human trafficking. We help abolish human trafficking by consulting, speaking, and training for nonprofits, government entities, businesses, professionals, churches, and community organizations focusing on human trafficking. Areas of emphasis and expertise are starting safe homes, improving organization effectiveness, fundraising, marketing and communication strategy, anti trafficking legislation, survivor leader development, program development, and trauma-informed practices.
I have partnered with organizations like The Barnabas Group-Kansas City, Rescue America, The Woolf Strategy Group, legislators, and others.
I recently stepped into the Executive Producer role and joined forces with three-time Emmy-nominated producer, Craig Martin, to create a docuseries called Knock: Peering Behind the Door of HumanTrafficking. This series is to bring awareness and create change to the growing pandemic in our own backyard.
It starts with my belief that if we work together, we can abolish human trafficking.
My wife and I served as missionaries in Asia and Eastern Europe for 18 years and expanded two humanitarian NGOs to meet indigenous needs. While there, I was exposed to the raw realities of human trafficking. I found its vastness, corruption, and demand overwhelming and seemingly impossible to address.
Simultaneously I wondered why trafficking victims were unable to escape. During a street outreach, my colleague asked a woman forced to sell herself on the street, “Why don’t you just leave?” She responded, “Am I coming home with you? Do you have a safe place for me?”
Dr. Rodney Hammer
Founder. Advocate. Visionary.
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Trafficking-Specific Shelters Training
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