Resources
Illinois Safe Children's Act
HB 6462 makes Illinois the first state in the nation to require all children under the age of 18 immune from prosecution for prostitution, under any circumstances. Read more about the Safe Children's Act (72KB pdf).
CSEC News Articles
A new resource (480KB pdf) is available that includes articles written about commercial sexual exploitation in Chicago, Rockford, Springfield and Illinois.
Pathways into and out of commercial sexual victimization of children:
Understanding and responding to sexually exploited teens, the Pathways Final Report (276KB .pdf)
THE William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008
- 50 Key Provisions Download report
- Photograph of the signing today (December 23, 2008) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2008
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.
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.
Learn what's being done in Chicago to fight the demand for prostitution! Visit www.stopsexualexploitation.com
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.
U.S. Department of State's office to monitor and combat trafficking
- The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP), led by Ambassador Mark P. Lagon, provides the tools to combat trafficking in persons and assists in the coordination of anti-trafficking efforts both worldwide and domestically.
Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics
Alleged Incidents of Human Trafficking in the United States, 1-1-07 through 9-30-08.
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.
New announcements
SPECIAL EVENTS & TRAININGS
- On October 14, 2011, PROMISE will conduct a two-day training on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Labor Trafficking of Domestic Minors. This training will target first responders who are in a capacity to serve youth. Registration will open soon for individuals who work in Lake County, Illinois. This training is done in partnership with The Salvation Army STOP-IT program.
SHOP & SUPPORT
- The Shoe Revolt supports PROMISE
Shoe Revolt is an Oregon nonprofit that gathers donations of new or gently used shoes, including celebrity shoes, and sells them on their online boutique. - Fierce Beauty supports PROMISE with 10% of the revenue they generate from in-home sales of scarves in Chicago. Please view their beautiful scarves on their web site.
- Substance Designs, a new local partner, designs beautiful jewelry made with environmentally-friendly practices. Each piece of new and upcycled jewelry is created by hand. 10% of all Substance Designs Etsy sales are donated to PROMISE and available for purchase on Etsy.
- LPR Global Inc. is a strategic consultancy that specializes in international trade and business development. LPR will provided PROMISE $50 on each full retail purchase of a gigaphone portable lightweight microphone available on their website.
- Updated 9/1/11
