PROMISE - Partnership to Rescue Our Minors from Sexual Exploitation

Biographical sketch:
Cheryl Lanktree, Ph.D.

Cheryl Lanktree, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Miller Children’s Hospital Abuse and Violence Intervention Center (MCAVIC), a multidisciplinary outpatient center in Long Beach, California providing evaluation and treatment services for children, adolescents, and their families traumatized by child abuse and neglect, family and community violence, medical illness, and family loss. She has successfully obtained numerous grants for the past ten years, to support the services of MCAVIC including federal grant funding (SAMHSA) since 2001, expanding services to the community as a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). She is Project Director and Principal Investigator for the SAMHSAfunded MCAVIC-USC Child and Adolescent Trauma Program, a Treatment and Service Adaptation Center (Category II) Center of the NCTSN.

Dr. Lanktree graduated from the University of Manitoba, Canada with a PhD in Clinical Psychology following a predoctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at Yale University. Dr. Lanktree also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. From 1988 to 1996, she was the Clinical Director at Stuart House, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Lanktree is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice and presents extensively on the assessment and treatment of psychological trauma in children and adolescents. She has presented workshops world-wide including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Russia, and Scotland, as well as throughout the United States.

Dr. Lanktree has published a number of papers on the assessment and treatment of child trauma. She is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California and previously held a faculty appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Lanktree previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Children’s Alliance, on the Steering Committee for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and as member of the Board of Directors for the California Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers.

 

New announcements

• Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Labor Trafficking of Minors
  Training Seminar
• Cook County State's Attorneys office supports the PROMISE program
  The Cook County State's Attorneys office received a grant from the DOJ, ICAC to protect children from sexual exploitation and has subcontracted with The Salvation Army, PROMISE program–Anne's House, to provide trauma aftercare treatment and educational services to the young women and girls on the program. For more details see the press release.
• Anne's House
  In the summer of 2010,The Salvation Army PROMISE program, under the direction of the Chicago Metropolitan Divisional Social Services Department is opening a residential home for domestic women and girls who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation[sex trafficking]. The home will provide a safe nurturing environment, long term trauma treatment, life skills training, spiritual support, education, anger management, money management and recreational activities.
  The program will accommodate eight socially disabled young women and girls, [ages 12-21] that desperately need a way out of their current lifestyle of sexual abuse and violence.
• The Chicago School of Professional Psychology provides Anne's House with clinical oversight.
  Our Task force member, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology has graciously agreed to provide PROMISE Anne's House staff assistance in evaluating program goals, reviewing treatment plans, intake procedures, diagnostic tools, special trauma bond training techniques, various therapeutic approaches, case load reviews and overall clinical supervision. For more information on the Chicago School of Professional Psychology please view their web site.
• Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority supports Anne's House by providing research and evaluation services.
  The ICJIA is supporting PROMISE by conducting research and evaluating Anne's House focusing on the following areas:
  1. Provide a review of literature on existing residential services to victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
  2. Create a full program description of the services provided at Anne's House
  3. Develop a profile of the program participants at Anne's House
  4. Conduct interviews with the staff.
  For more information on the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority please see the enclosed URL http://www.icjia.state.il.us/public/index.cfm
• Malia Designs supports PROMISE
  Malia Designs, a Chicago company with a mission to combat human trafficking, has generously agreed to donate 15% of any purchase to The Salvation Army PROMISE program. Malia Designs sells products such as bags, wallets and accessories made by non-profit organizations that employ disadvantaged people in developing countries as well as small family producers. To check out their beautiful products visit http://www.maliadesigns.com. Please be sure to type “PROMISE” in the coupon code box when making your purchase.
• Previous announcements
  Updated 8/8/10.