Resources
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
- 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:- Provide a review of literature on existing residential services to victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
- Create a full program description of the services provided at Anne's House
- Develop a profile of the program participants at Anne's House
- Conduct interviews with the staff.
- 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.