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Yvette J. Williams
Founder and Executive Director of Back on Track Expungement Services and Back on Track Community Services
For 24+ years, Yvette has demonstrated a professional capacity to serve disenfranchised and underrepresented populations addressing issues of sex trafficking, life skills trainings, expungements and underemployment for individuals (e.g. Children Sexually Exploited, marginalized foster youth, Men and Women affected by their criminal records, Adult Survivors of Trafficking and Returning Citizens formerly incarcerated and so forth) assisting them with their efforts to re-enter mainstream society and/or the workforce. Although Yvette started Expunging criminal records in 1998 at no cost. Yvette’s path and passion for reducing recidivism started in 2008!
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Yvette became the sole proprietor of Back on Track Expungement Services, a legal document preparation service for clients seeking the eradication of previous criminal infractions. Back on Track Expungement Services introduced Yvette to society’s under-employed and marginalized populations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 2011, Yvette joined Love Never Fails, an anti-sex trafficking agency located in Oakland, CA, to combat the harmful lifelong effects of sex trafficking. She worked with them from 2011-2015 in various roles, paid and volunteer. Yvette completed a Street Outreach training and Mentors For Positive Change training, after which she hit the streets with volunteers to feed and offer a “way out of the life” to the children and adults who were being forced and manipulated into sex trafficking. She moved on to the role of Volunteer Program Manager, where she facilitated a Paid Job Training and Life Skills Program for the participants. Yvette joined numerous Cohorts regarding the California Public Safety Realignment and implementation of AB109. In 2002-2003, Yvette was the Keynote speaker for Alameda County’s Foster Care and Adoption certification ceremonies. Additionally, in 2012, Yvette utilized her lived experience with becoming homeless on her 18th birthday while in the Foster Care System. She spoke with local CBOs, Social Workers, and Political Leadership. The end result was the implementation of AB12. The law created California’s Extended Foster Care (EFC) Program, which allows eligible youth in the child welfare and probation systems to remain in foster care until age 21.
In 2015, Yvette became the Operations Manager at a startup non-profit organization, Pillars of Hope, Inc., an organization working in the fight to restore the lives of survivors of sex trafficking. Yvette was responsible for interviewing and hiring qualified staff, constructing clients’ contractual agreements, and serving as the Public Relations person in order to garner additional outside resources and financial support for Pillars of Hope. She facilitated the Pillars Street Outreach Program and was instrumental in implementing the Church Outreach with a Pastors Meet and Greet event for Pillars. Yvette worked with the Case Manager constructing Pillars Safe House Policies and Procedures manual. While working as the Public Relations Manager for Pillars of Hope, Yvette wrote and conducted all of the specialized workshops, case studies, and monthly trainings. Yvette single-handedly took on the role of mobile case manager for families with youth ages 16 to 24 who are vulnerable to or have experienced commercial sexual exploitation. She was very instrumental in working with children and adults who were kidnapped, working closely with law enforcement and providing resources to heal the family as a whole.
In 2015, Yvette became the sole proprietor of Back on Track Community Services, where she conducts workshops on human trafficking, expungements, cyberbullying, and life skills training at nonprofits throughout Contra Costa County that serve at-risk children and adults. Additionally, Yvette has consistently & successfully facilitated several Employment & Resource fairs for underserved populations every year since 2012. Yvette served on the Executive Board for the Association Midnight Basketball as the Public Relations, Marketing Director from 2023-2025. Since 2015, Yvette has facilitated over 22 community resource events in Partnership with various CBOs and Government Officials.
Yvette will continue to work tirelessly, letting her clients know:
“We are not the worst mistake we have ever made in our lives!”…Bryan Stevenson
In 2011, Yvette joined Love Never Fails, an anti-sex trafficking agency located in Oakland, CA, to combat the harmful lifelong effects of sex trafficking. She worked with them from 2011-2015 in various roles, paid and volunteer. Yvette completed a Street Outreach training and Mentors For Positive Change training, after which she hit the streets with volunteers to feed and offer a “way out of the life” to the children and adults who were being forced and manipulated into sex trafficking. She moved on to the role of Volunteer Program Manager, where she facilitated a Paid Job Training and Life Skills Program for the participants. Yvette joined numerous Cohorts regarding the California Public Safety Realignment and implementation of AB109. In 2002-2003, Yvette was the Keynote speaker for Alameda County’s Foster Care and Adoption certification ceremonies. Additionally, in 2012, Yvette utilized her lived experience with becoming homeless on her 18th birthday while in the Foster Care System. She spoke with local CBOs, Social Workers, and Political Leadership. The end result was the implementation of AB12. The law created California’s Extended Foster Care (EFC) Program, which allows eligible youth in the child welfare and probation systems to remain in foster care until age 21.
In 2015, Yvette became the Operations Manager at a startup non-profit organization, Pillars of Hope, Inc., an organization working in the fight to restore the lives of survivors of sex trafficking. Yvette was responsible for interviewing and hiring qualified staff, constructing clients’ contractual agreements, and serving as the Public Relations person in order to garner additional outside resources and financial support for Pillars of Hope. She facilitated the Pillars Street Outreach Program and was instrumental in implementing the Church Outreach with a Pastors Meet and Greet event for Pillars. Yvette worked with the Case Manager constructing Pillars Safe House Policies and Procedures manual. While working as the Public Relations Manager for Pillars of Hope, Yvette wrote and conducted all of the specialized workshops, case studies, and monthly trainings. Yvette single-handedly took on the role of mobile case manager for families with youth ages 16 to 24 who are vulnerable to or have experienced commercial sexual exploitation. She was very instrumental in working with children and adults who were kidnapped, working closely with law enforcement and providing resources to heal the family as a whole.
In 2015, Yvette became the sole proprietor of Back on Track Community Services, where she conducts workshops on human trafficking, expungements, cyberbullying, and life skills training at nonprofits throughout Contra Costa County that serve at-risk children and adults. Additionally, Yvette has consistently & successfully facilitated several Employment & Resource fairs for underserved populations every year since 2012. Yvette served on the Executive Board for the Association Midnight Basketball as the Public Relations, Marketing Director from 2023-2025. Since 2015, Yvette has facilitated over 22 community resource events in Partnership with various CBOs and Government Officials.
Yvette will continue to work tirelessly, letting her clients know:
“We are not the worst mistake we have ever made in our lives!”…Bryan Stevenson