Human Trafficking Prevention Project

The Human Trafficking Prevention Project is dedicated to ending the criminalization of sex workers and survivors of human trafficking through access to civil legal services and support for policies that dismantle harmful systems and increase access to basic human rights and legal relief. Additionally, we seek to prevent exploitation in populations put at highest risk through partnerships with organizations that are intersectional to our own.

The Human Trafficking Prevention Project (HTPP) focuses on reducing the collateral consequences of criminal legal involvement for sex workers, survivors of human trafficking and those populations put at highest risk of exploitation.

The HTPP works in partnership with Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), the state’s largest provider of pro bono legal services. HTPP staff represent clients in criminal record relief matters, including, but not limited to, expungement, shielding, and vacatur of convictions.

Through our partnership with MVLS, the HTPP is also able to provide clients with legal help in other civil legal matters, including family law, consumer debt, credit repair, tax disputes, and name and gender marker changes among other legal issues.

The HTPP is a project of Uplift Alliance, Inc., a Baltimore City-based fiscal sponsor.