About Us
Our mission is to eradicate the trafficking and selling of human beings. We create systemic change through: youth prevention; education and legislative advocacy; recovery and reentry services for victims, including emergency, transitional, and long-term shelter; and a lifelong community of care for survivors.
Our History
Eden Centers for Hope and Healing opened Eden House, the first recovery home that served adult victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in the Greater New Orleans area. We are modeled after Magdalene House/Thistle Farms in Nashville, TN.
With a desire to educate those most vulnerable to human trafficking, the community, and its leaders, Eden Centers launched its outreach and prevention program.
Eden Centers welcomed Especially Eden, its social enterprise to empower survivors to build job skills and find financial stability.
After 11 years of serving survivors, Eden Centers opened its second residential home that doubled the capacity to serve survivors, Garden House.
In 2023, Eden House was changed to Eden Centers for Hope and Healing to encompass all of the services offered to survivors of human trafficking.
Eden Centers opened Eden Emergency Center, the first of its kind in the nation to partner and be located on site of a hospital system that serves emergency services to human trafficking survivors.
