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Resources

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)

• The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth in Illinois. Learn more.
• Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: What Do We Know and What Do We Do About It? Download report.
• Who is There to Help Us? Download report.
• Prostitution of Juveniles: Patterns From NIBRS. Learn more.

Demand

• Deconstructing The Demand for Prostitution: Preliminary Insights From Interviews With Chicago Men Who Purchase Sex. New report.

Human Trafficking

• The Realities of Human Trafficking in Cook County: Strategies for Ending the Exploitation of Women and Girls. Download report.
• Domestic sex trafficking of Chicago women and girls. New report.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Social Service agencies in Illinois are mandated to contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children when children go missing from their care. This of course does not include law enforcement. Between 2003 through 6/30/2008, the NCMEC received over 4,200 reports of missing children from Chicago alone (3,326 of which were African American children). 97% of the children reported were classified as endangered runaways.

In addition, information from NCMEC Exploited Child Division, which processes reports of child pornography and other forms of child sexual exploitation, cases have grown astronomically from 2005 (13) to 2007 (306). Studies tell us that only about 30% of incidences are reported. Children are silenced by fear and many adults still do not want to recognize, discuss, or find solutions for these heinous crimes against children.

Prostitution

• The Intersystem Assessment on Prostitution in Chicago Learn more.
• The Prostitution of Women and Girls in Metropolitan Chicago: A Preliminary Prevalence Report Download report.
• Sisters Speak Out: The Lives and Needs of Prostituted Women in Chicago, A Research Study Learn more.

Youth Homelessness

• Wherever I Can Lay My Head: Homeless Youth on Homelessness Learn more.
• Unaccompanied Homeless Youth in Illinois: 2005 Download document (22.8MB pdf).
• Youth on the Streets and on Their Own Learn more.

Announcements

• Save the Date!

  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.

• PROMISE Welcomes First Intern

  PROMISE is pleased to announce the that an intern from Northeastern University will be joining our team in August 2008. She will be providing 20 hours of service a week to both the subcommittees and the overall PROMISE task force. We are excited to have her on board to assist us with initiatives to combat CSEC!

• CSEC Curriculum for Schools

  The PROMISE Prevention Subcommittee is currently developing a curriculum about the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Through the assistance of Chicago Communities in Schools, the curriculum will be piloted at local schools.

• Public Service Announcement

  PROMISE is proud to collaborate with the United Center for the airing of an anti-sexual exploitation public service announcement spearheaded by The Salvation Army. See the PSA now:
  Macintosh QuickTime (1.6MB)
  Windows movie (1.6MB)

• Updated 9/5/08