FLITE Center West Palm Beach Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

A Community Project Years In The Making, Come Celebrate Our Entry Into Palm Beach County!

Our sincere thanks to Dr. Heidi Shaeffer for the initial funding to open FLITE Center West Palm Beach, allowing us to focus on youth ages 10-24 who are at risk of, or have been human trafficked. Dr. Schaeffer is a nationally recognized human trafficking awareness and intervention expert and clinical affiliate assistant professor at the Florida Atlantic University Schmidt College of Medicine and an advisory board member of the Nova Southeastern University College of Health Care Sciences. She has educated emergency department staff and thousands of students and faculty throughout South Florida about human trafficking, collaborated with human trafficking task forces, and served on the executive boards of many human trafficking coalitions including Broward Human Trafficking Coalition and Human Trafficking Coalition of the Palm Beaches. In addition, she has been instrumental in developing and helping to pass victim-focused legislation at local, state, and federal levels and has twice been invited to speak before U.S. Congress members in Washington, D.C..