Community Efforts

At Bringing our Valley HOPE we support survivors by making HOPE bags and blankets in cooperation with Reclaiming Hope in Colorado Springs. If a local civic or religious group would like to host an event, please contact us!

We have supported the Freedom Ride which is a bicycle ride through the Colorado mountain passes to raise money to completely fund an orphanage in Africa for the babies of sex trafficked women.

WE EDUCATE the next generations in our public schools and give them resources and strategies to keep them from becoming victims.

WE EDUCATE the public to increase awareness and to prevent human trafficking before it begins. Each year we offer several free instructional seminars to the Chaffee County public. Contact us if you would like more information about hosting one of these events.

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COMMUNITY EFFORTS 2025

Bringing our Valley Hope hosted an informational table at the Salida, Colorado chapter of Knights of Columbus in October. Volunteers handed out information about Human Trafficking: how to recognize it and what to do. We also sold our HOPE bracelets that volunteers made.

Fundraiser - Our local vintage Drive-In Comanche Theater, showed the classic Clint Eastwood movie, A Fistful of Dollars in September.

The Buena Vista chapter of Knights of Columbus are a huge supporter of the mission of Bringing our Valley Hope. At their breakfast in November we sold items from UCount that were handmade from trafficked survivors. 100% of the income goes directly back to the maker.

Our sister non-profit, Elizabeth Anne's Haven (blue tablecloth) sold merchandise and gave out information about its mission to house trafficking survivors in Chaffee County, Colorado.

In September, we hosted a table in Alamosa, Colorado as a Human Trafficking Awareness Event.

Buena Vista High School 9th Grade Human Trafficking Education

This opportunity to educate freshman students is vital to helping them from becoming a victim. Our volunteers presented 4 days of education focusing on basic human rights, how to recognize trafficking and very importantly, digital safety.

Several volunteers got together and sewed 50 stockings for Reclaiming Hope in Colorado Springs. These will be filled with themed items for rescued sex trafficked women in Colorado. This year Reclaiming Hope has requests for 500 stockings!

COMMUNITY EFFORTS 2024

Christmas Stockings for Survivors Partnering with Reclaiming Hope

Community members shopped for items to fill Christmas Stockings. We also made 15 blankets for Reclaiming Hope's Hope Bags that are given to survivors at their point of rescue. 51 HOPE Bracelets were made to sell at our community events as a fundraiser effort.

Buena Vista 9th Grade

Human Trafficking Education

Jocosa Olsen, Lori Crocco, Jeffrey Lopez, Pam Williams (High School health teacher), Laura Lee Schaufler, Betty Swartz-Bozeman and Teresa Moen (not pictured) educated Freshmen in health class about the dangers of human trafficking.

Beth Ritchie, Betty Swartz-Bozeman and Kirsten Wulfsberg presented at the Teller County Suicide Prevention Symposium on March 1, 2024. People who have been trafficked have a very high chance of suicide.

Beth Ritchie and Betty Swartz-Bozeman presented Human Trafficking 101 to the Leadville, CO community in May 2024.