President

Laura Cusack is a Senior Crime Victim Advocate at the Coalition for Independent Living Options, Inc. , Chair of the Human Trafficking Coalition of the Palm Beaches, and consultant for the Palm Beach County Human Trafficking Task Force.  She is also a member of the Palm Beach County Sexual Assault Response Team, and serves as a trainer for the Attorney General’s Offices’ Crime Victims Designation Trainings. Her experience includes providing training to frontline service providers on specific needs of crime victims with disabilities, on human trafficking, and crimes against children; facilitation psychoeducational groups for high-risk youth with trauma -related disabilities;  mentoring volunteers and leading community outreach efforts, and instructing criminal diversion curriculum to men arrested for buying sex.  From 2018-2020, Laura developed, launched, and facilitated Place of Hope’s Human Trafficking Prevention Education Program. From 2018-20, Laura launched and led the Hope Campaign in Florida, a community outreach in Palm Beach County that worked with local hotels to identify missing children and increase public access to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.  She has also conducted street outreach with law enforcement. In 2021, Laura was awarded Victim Advocate of the Year by Palm Beach County Victims’ Rights Coalition.