OUR HISTORY

OUR HISTORY

  1. 2010
  2. 2014
  3. 2015
  4. 2016
  5. 2017
  6. 2018
  7. 2019
  8. 2020
  9. 2022
  10. 2023

  1. 2010, GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT:

    • NOVA-HTI (now Reset180) started as a grassroots movement when five local pastors met with former Representative Frank Wolf.
    • Our focus was on educating the community about human trafficking.
    • We began serving on the regional human trafficking task force.

  2. 2014, BEGAN:

    • We became a nonprofit.
    • Local and federal law enforcement asked us to create a survivor services team.

  3. 2015, SURVIVIOR SERVICES:

    • We created and trained survivor services, crisis response, and mentorship teams.

  4. 2016, SPEAKERS BUREAU:

    • A trained Speakers Bureau team was formed to expand prevention and awareness education.

  5. 2017, RESOURCE CENTER:

    • Our Resource Center in Reston, VA, was opened to expand our services.
    • We started outreach to women exploited in Illicit Massage Businesses (IMBs).

  6. 2018, PHONE OUTREACH:

    • Our Text Outreach Team formed to offer services to those being sold through online ads.

  7. 2019, SEX BUYER OUTREACH:

    • Our Sex Buyer Outreach Team launched to reach those exploiting women in IMBs.
    • We started working on an IMB report to study the impact of IMBs in Fairfax County, VA.
    • We completed a 9-month mentorship on opening & running a shelter for survivors.

  8. 2020, REPORT RELEASED:

    • Illicit Massage Businesses: A Community Problem A Case Study of the Impact of IMBs in Fairfax County, VA, was released.
    • We rebranded from NOVA-HTI to Reset180.
    • A church gifted land to us to build our Restoration House, a housing program for sex trafficking survivors.

  9. 2O22 HOUSING:

    • The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the special use permit for us to build the Restoration House.

  10. 2023 HOUSING:

    • We are continuing plans for the Restoration House for survivors with your help!

why we rebranded

WHY WE REBRANDED

In 2019, with expansion efforts into housing and understanding that we are building a model in Northern Virginia to be replicated around the globe we felt a branding was in order. The board of directors, after months of praying, agreed that Reset180 would be our new name.

About the Name: Reset180

As the Board of Directors considered various names, these points were important that the name:

    • Is a modern term that can easily be connected to scripture.
    • Speaks to the positive outcome we want to see instead of the problem.
    • Can comfortably be shared with sex buyers on outreach.
    • Does not cause survivors to feel shame.
    • Is shorter than our previous name.
    • Does not limit our coverage area geographically.
    • Applies to all three pillars of out mission: PREVENT, DISRUPT, RESTORE

In 2020, God has called us to all reset in ways that we never imagined, but in the work we do it is especially relevant. It brings to mind the new work that God desires to do within the lives of survivors who have been deeply traumatized through trafficking situations, sex buyers who are in a cycle of addiction and exploiting others, and to our communities who need to commit to God’s plan to prevent human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, disrupt related networks, and restore those impacted. We believe that the holy bible is God’s reset plan for mankind.

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he/she has become a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?”

Isaiah 58:6

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.”

Luke 4:18-19