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Why it’s so hard to end homelessness in America
It took seven years for Abigail Judge to see what success looked like for one Boston homeless woman.
The woman had been sex trafficked since she was young, was a drug user, and had been abused, neglected, or exploited in just about every relationship she’d had.
If Judge was going to help her, trust had to come first.
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Everything else — recovery, healing, employment, rejoining society’s mainstream — might be impossible without it. That meant patience despite the daily urgency of the woman’s situation.
“It’s nonlinear. She gets better, stops, gets re-engaged with the trafficker and pulled back into the lifestyle.
She does time because she was literally holding the bag of fentanyl for these guys,” said Judge, a psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School whose outreach program, Boston Human Exploitation and Sex Trafficking (HEAT), is supported by Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston Police Department.
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