MISSION:

Bringing Home America NFP mission is to increase the lifespan of at-risk urban youth and young adults by organizing to prevent, assist, and investigate cases of trafficking, missing persons and gun violence across the country through a holistic and solution-based system.

ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND:

Bringing Home America was originally founded as a national campaign back in November of 2017 in the wake of a 19 year old woman being found dead in a freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont Illinois. Founder, Lamon Reccord at the time of the very beginning of her case was in Austin and Houston Texas helping residents recover and rebuild their communities from hurricane Harvey. When given hundreds of notifications about the case, Reccord then got on the plane to go straight to Rosemont to demand answers and start a social justice and advocacy movement which caught the attention of people across the world. Due to the case no longer being advocated for per the families request, Reccord felt compelled to start BHA for youth across the country starting in 33 states then narrowing down to 11 states / chapters with presidents overseeing each chapter. With a 100% success rate, BHA has brought children home nationally, helped families get closure for losing their loved ones, hosted community events, stopped children from being sex and drug trafficked and more.

MANAGEMENT TEAM:

Board of Directors

Department of Case Intake and Investigations

Department of Community Safety and Supervision

Department of Community Events and Programs

Department of Community Outreach

Youth Committee

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES:

Community Patrol

Assistance and Investigative Strategies in Missing Person / Gun Violence / Sex, Drug and Human Trafficking Cases

Certified Life Coaching

Active Community Events

Apparel

Community Development Progrmas

MARKET RESEARCH:

Bringing Home America has a target audience of impoverished communities with youth and young adults ages 13-24 years of age. Our main goal is to better know and understand the audience we want to serve. We don’t just want to run digital ads through social channels to get others' attention, but to create surveys about everyday ordeals and challenges youth face and how community and organizations can support them in becoming productive, effective and sufficient residents of society.

According to the US Census Bureau, the child poverty rate in America is 16% nationwide as of 2020. This amounts to 11.6 million children living in poverty in the United States.

Every 40 seconds, a child goes missing or is abducted in the United States. Approximately 840,000 children and youth are reported missing each year and the F.B.I. estimates that between 85 and 90 percent of these are children. While most reports of missing or abducted children are resolved within hours, many involve situations where a child goes missing permanently or for an extended period of time. The prime victims of abduction are children under the age of 18.

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There are about 5 victims of human trafficking for every 1,000 people in the world.
1 in 4 victims of human trafficking are children.
Approximately 130 people are trafficked worldwide every hour. Most of these are children.
Over one million children are trafficked for the sex trade every year.
Approximately 30 million children have lost their childhood to human trafficking in the past 30 years.
Some children forced into human trafficking are as young as 4 years old.
4 million people are living in forced marriages. This is slavery.
One third of the 15 million victims of forced marriage are under the age of 18. Nearly half of these are younger than 15.
152 million children were victims of child labor in 2016, which amounts to nearly one in every 10 children worldwide.
Sexual exploitation earns 66% of the global profits of human trafficking.
The average age of a sex trafficked child is 13-14 years old.
A pimp can make up to $150,000-$200,000 per child a year.
1 in 3 children who run away from home are approached by a trafficker within 48 hours of their running away.
76% of transactions for human trafficking with underage girls start on the internet.

Human trafficking is the 2nd largest criminal trade in the world after arms.
Human trafficking is the fastest-growing illicit trade in the world.
Human trafficking generates over $150 billion in profits every year.
40.3 million people are living as slaves worldwide, 5 times the population of Switzerland.
Globally, the average cost of a “slave” – a trafficked human being – is $90.
The U.S. accounts for almost 52% of global human trafficking with the sex trafficking of minors accounting for the largest percentage.
Traffickers make over $9.5 billion annually in the U.S. alone.

As the organization grows overtime, we hope that our market analysis will grow and assist us in some major components of

How to better engage with the current audience.
How to identify and attract new streams of supporters.
How to improve operational inefficiencies that stop the organization from reaching its goals and potential.
Identifying and understanding what other organizations are doing similar work.

MARKETING STRATEGY

While social media may be the biggest tool for youth, the word of mouth always goes further. Our marketing strategy simply includes not just posting on social media to reach youth, but to hit the streets to display to them that someone is willing to work with them, that’s there for them and that’s ready to help them get where they need to be through grassroots canvassing, door knocking and recurring community events that will get and keep them engaged. To keep this momentum going, BHA will be creating a mobile app with free basic and low-cost memberships.

CALL FOR ACTION:

CBO’s / Coaching Block Off’s: CBO are when we shut down blocks in communities from traffic to directly focus on homes and families on the block offering counseling, therapy and life coaching services. This will help homes and families heal from trauma, hardship and pain, solve inner-home ordeals amongst family members and help break the generational stigma of “what happens in this house, stay’s in this house”. We can’t expect to build community if families are afraid to ask and receive help from those who live in their community.

CPU’s / Coaching Pop Up’s: CPU’s are when we pop out and engage! This can happen at crime scenes, storefronts, churches, malls, gas stations and more! This is when we engage with the community by signing them up to become a BHA member, finding ways how we can be a better organization for their community, understanding and knowing their needs and how we can deliver results.

Meditation Monday Program: This program is designed for healing across the board! Where community residents and first responders actually come together to talk about their trauma and create a level of understanding that we all often deal with trauma and that it's okay to not just heal, but to really heal together as a community. We walked the same path, but got on two different shoes. If we all can take moments to put each other in other shoes, this will create understanding, compassion and even trust between all parties. BHA wants to create meditation rooms in hospitals, police stations, fire houses and communities to help others strategically and wisely deal with their trauma and difficult situations.

Cars for Care Program: In this program, BHA partner with dealerships and community residents with policies and procedures in place to use high-powered vehicles for youth to test drive in designated safe parking lots following masterclasses, workshops and one-on-one’s about the educational purposes and ways of having a high-powered vehicle, getting one the legal and righteous way. This will deter youth from senseless carjacking and theft.

Fractionalizing Firearms Program: In this program, BHA will team up with firearm instructors, and retired police officers to create, host and maintain masterclasses and workshops on the ins and outs, rights and wrong, legal and illegal ways of the ownership and usage of firearms. This will deter youth from not just using firearms illegally, but to be an influence on their environment to encourage others to take our program for free of charge.

Majestically Medical Program: With this program, BHA will partner with different clinics, hospitals, first responders and health care researchers to construct and maintain masterclasses and workshops on not just how to do CPR, but to treat stab and gunshot wounds, how eat right, work right and promote a healthy and clean lifestyle.

Yoke the Youth Program: This program is to get youth togetherly (and possibly employ them) active to create and maintain strategies and hobbies to clean their community. In addition, when colder temperatures arise, shoveling snow will be included. Also providing community service hours when ordered by the court or to simply volunteer. This will help youth take pride in their communities and promote a clean and a more “core value” lifestyle to upholding integrity and take pride in where they live inside and outside of home.

Membership / Mobile App: One of our goals is to keep the lines of communication open for and with the people we serve, no matter the ethnicity, background and gender. Bringing Home America is committed to recruiting over 50,000 American residents young and old as BHA Members over the course of the next two years Starting September 1, 2023. Here, members of the communities can stay up to date on the work we’re doing, express their opinions, submit request for services of advocacy and or investigAtive assistance in missing persons and gun violence cases of youth, engage with other BHA members to share ideas, thoughts and comments, purchase BHA apparel to support our work, find discounts with other businesses and stores that BHA partners with, plus more. With this app, the community is created, unified and collectively strong… Together.

Community Partnership / Sponsorship Program: Lastly, this program is designed to partner with different movements, businesses and organizations to find ways to collectively work together as a collective. Finding ways to bring others agendas for the community together. There may be many visions, but we’re all shooting and working towards one goal, and that goal is to better the community we serve and live in.

Launch of MGM - Men of God Ministries

By Lamon Reccord

Launch of MGM - Men of God Ministries

Team Members