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Upcoming Events

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October 10, 2008
CSEC/Human Trafficking Seminar

The Salvation Army PROMISE program will provide a full day of CSEC/Human Trafficking training at Dominican University, Priory Campus on Friday October 10. 2008. [Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children] The training curriculum that will be presented at this seminar was developed by CCIP, a team of experts from around the country. We are bringing in keynote speakers from London based STOPTHETRAFFIK International, and from the Department of Defense.
5 hours of free CEU credits will be issued complements of Dominican University, Graduate School of Social Work
See the tentative agenda.

CAN-TV Appearance

PROMISE Task force member Brenda Meyers-Powell will be interviewed by CANTV (Chicago Access Network Television]) on Wednesday August 27, 2008. One of the largest and most widely used public access TV centers in the country. This will be an hour long interview on her life, interface with The Salvation Army, and involvement with TSA PROMISE program. We will announce the exact date the interview will air in early September. Her bio is as follows:

Brenda Myers-Powell is a member of The Salvation Army's PROMISE (Partnership to Rescue our Minors from Sexual Exploitation) task force and a nationally known speaker on the topic of prostitution and trafficking. She is a Chicago native who works closely with the Chicago Coalition on Homelessness for legislative changes regarding prostituted women. Ms. Powell spoke at the Illinois State legislature about the Predator Accountability Bill that permits prostituted women to civilly sue a person or establishment that contributed to coercing her into prostitution or that perpetrated any violence against her in prostitution. She is currently Co-founder of Dream Catcher, an agency that provides services for young women at risk for prostitution. Ms. Powell works closely with the Cook County jail system to reduce recidivism of women in prostitution. She is a consultant on prostitution for service providers, offering training to agencies that wish to better understand the complexity of systems of prostitution. Recently, she was featured in a documentary Turning the Corner which offered a look into the lives of survivors of prostitution. Ms. Powell is a founding board member of the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation. She works closely with the Chicago Mayor’s Office for Domestic Violence as they work to create a support system for women in prostitution, who are also battered women.