Texas Bar Foundation Awards $11,100 Grant to Room To Care for Survivor-Informed Human Trafficking Training

Funding gives Through Their Eyes the editing capacity to bring its training to Texas hospitality, healthcare, and law enforcement workers

EULESS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Room To Care, Inc., a Euless-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has received an $11,100 grant from the Texas Bar Foundation. The one-year grant, which began October 16, 2026, supports Through Their Eyes Trafficking Awareness Editing Capacity, providing equipment and software so survivor-informed human trafficking training can reach Texas hospitality, healthcare, and law enforcement workers.

Through Their Eyes is Room To Care’s flagship educational program, being produced to documentary film standards. The program is built around survivors who have chosen to share their stories on camera. Filming continues, and post-production has begun on recorded interviews. Aging equipment has slowed that work considerably. This grant provides the editing tools needed to turn those interviews into training for frontline workers.

“Difficult topics like human trafficking deserve to be taught with empathy, both for the survivors who share their experiences and for the people learning from them,” said Scott Burch, Founder and Executive Director of Room To Care. “Many people carry a picture of what trafficking looks like that keeps them from recognizing it at a hotel front desk, in an exam room, or on a call. We believe hearing directly from survivors can change that picture, and change what people notice. The Texas Bar Foundation’s support gives us the tools to tell those stories well, and we’re grateful for their trust.”

Existing trafficking training often relies on animation, slide-and-voiceover formats, or scripted dramatizations. Through Their Eyes is being built around real voices instead, with the goal of training that stays with the people who watch it.

About the Texas Bar Foundation

Since its inception in 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $32 million in grants to law-related programs. Supported by members of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation’s largest charitably-funded bar foundation.

About Room To Care

Room To Care, Inc. is a nonprofit based in Euless, Texas. It takes on human issues including exploitation, inequality, and relationships through documentary filmmaking and educational storytelling. Human trafficking awareness is its first program area. Learn more at roomtocare.com.