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Website: http://caase.org/ – (info)
Address: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Countries served: United States
Geographic scope: National
Phone: 773-244-2230
Email: info@caase.org
Facebook: thecaase
Twitter: @thecaase
EIN (Guidestar profile): 26-0220074
Type: Anti-trafficking
Status: Active
Faith-based: No
Adult focused (NSFW): No
Sex work positive: No
Female led: Yes
Sex worker led: No
About Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
CAASE addresses the culture, institutions, and individuals that perpetrate, profit from, or support sexual exploitation. Our work includes prevention, policy reform, community engagement, and legal services.
End Demand Illinois: A Local Campaign with National Influence
CAASE is the lead agency for End Demand Illinois (EDI), a multi-year statewide campaign that seeks to transform our community’s response to prostitution. EDI is working to end the routine arrest and re-arrest of women and girls in prostitution and instead proposes a statewide system of supportive services for survivors of the sex trade. In addition, EDI advocates for new tools and resources to allow law enforcement to begin arresting, charging, and prosecuting pimps, traffickers, and customers who create the demand for the sex trade. Illinois is receiving national attention for these innovative approaches.
The goals of End Demand Illinois are:
Holding traffickers, pimps, and the people who buy commercial sex accountable for their crimes and deterring them from future trafficking and prostitution offenses.
Proposing a network of support so prostituted and trafficked people receive comprehensive, specialized supportive services to address their complex needs and provide meaningful alternatives to prostitution.
Educating Illinois residents, elected officials, policy makers, and opinion leaders about the realities of prostitution and trafficking so they are moved to take action against demand.
Public facts about Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
Revenue
2013 – $885,391.00 (Salaries Paid $451,550.00)
2012 – $696,214.00 (Salaries Paid $498,019.00)
2011 – $613,013.00 (Salaries Paid $431482.00
ALLIANCES
Art Works Project: www.artworksprojects.org
Buy Art Not People: www.buyartnotpeople.org
Center for the Human Rights of Children: http://www.luc.edu/chrc
Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center: www.ChicagoCAC.org
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless- Prostitution Alternatives Round Table: www.chicagohomeless.org
Chicago Foundation For Women: www.cfw.org
The Dreamcatcher Foundation: www.thedreamcatcherfoundation.org
Heart Women and Girls Project: www.heartwomenandgirls.org
Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault: www.icasa.org
International Organization for Adolescents: www.iofa.org
International Human Rights Law Institute: www.IHRLI.org
Malia Designs: www.maliadesigns.com
National Council of Jewish Women Chicago North Shore: www.ncjwcns.org
National Runaway Switchboard: www.1800RUNAWAY.org
Pillars: www.pillarscommunity.org
Project I.R.E.N.E.: projectirene@aol.com
Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment: www.pavingtheway.net
Protestants For the Common Good: www.thecommongood.org
Rape Victim Advocates: www.rapevictimadvocates.org
Salvation Army’s Partnership to Rescue Our Minors From Sexual Exploitation (PROMISE): www.sapromise.org/
Salvation Army STOP IT: www.sa-stopit.org
Schiller Ducantu and Fleck Family Law Center @ DePaul University: www.law.depaul.edu/family
Soroptimist: www.soroptimist.org
Traffick Free: www.traffickfree.org
Voices and Faces Project: www.voicesandfaces.org
YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: www.ywcachicago.org
National Allies
Call and Response: www.callandresponse.com
A Call To Men: www.acalltomen.com
Captive Daughters: www.captivedaughters.org
Counter Quo: www.counterquo.org
Demand Abolition: www.demandabolition.org
ECPAT-USA, Inc.: www.ecpatusa.org
FAIR Girls: www.fairgirls.org
Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives www.FDFI.org
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS): www.gems-girls.org
Global Centurion: www.globalcenturion.org
Hollaback: http://www.ihollaback.org/
i stop traffic: www.istoptraffic.com
Love 146: www.love146.org
Men Can Stop Rape: www.mencanstoprape.org
MensWork Inc.: www.mensworkinc.org
My Life My Choice www.fightingexploitation.org
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: www.missingkids.com National Council of Jewish Women: www.ncjw.org
National Organization of Men Against Sexism: www.nomas.org
National Runaway Switchboard: www.1800runaway.org
Nomi Network: www.buyherbagnotherbody.com
Not for Sale: www.notforsalecampaign.org
Open Lens Media: www.thepriceofpleasure.com
Polaris Project: www.polarisproject.org
Prostitution Research and Education: www.prostitutionresearch.com
Sex Trafficking Survivors United www.sextraffickingsurvivorsunited.org
Stop Porn Culture: www.stoppornculture.org
Truckers Against Trafficking: www.truckersagainsttrafficking.com
Veronica’s Voice: www.veronicasvoice.org
International Allies
Abolish Slavery Coalition: http://www.abolishslavery.org/
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women: www.catwinternational.org
End Prostitution Now, a campaign of the Glasgow, Scotland, City Council: www.endprostitutionnow.com
Fundacion Rehab
Sharedhope International: www.sharedhope.org
Temple Committee Against Human Trafficking: www.templemontreal.ca
People involved with Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
Kaethe Morris Hoffer
Executive Director
Lynne Johnson
Policy Director
Sheerine Alemzadeh
Karen Beilstein
Operations Manager
Katie Gaughan
Staff Attorney
Veronica Svendsen
Project Administrator, Legal Services
Caleb Probst
Educator
Leena Saleh
Communications Manager
Sex work focus for Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
Sex worker demographics focus for Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
Women who have been arrested for Prostitution
Services offered by Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
PREVENTION
CAASE creates and implements educational curricula that encourage high-school-age men and women to work against sexual exploitation.
POLICY AND ADVOCACY
CAASE advocates for legislative and policy reforms that will increase legal and social accountability for perpetrators of harm, especially sex traffickers, pimps, people who buy sex, and those who commit sexual assault. We also promote broad community support for services and resources for survivors. CAASE advises law enforcement, policy makers, and other stakeholders on best practices relating to sex trafficking, prostitution, and rape.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
CAASE works to prevent sexual exploitation by increasing public understanding of the harms inherent in the sex trade. Our approach to engagement includes research and the arts. Additionally, CAASE develops toolkits for nonprofits, faith-based groups, schools, businesses, feminist groups, and other communities and individuals who would like to take action against sexual harm.
LEGAL SERVICES
CAASE engages in civil litigation against perpetrators and facilitators of sexual harm and advocates for appropriate and effective criminal prosecution of perpetrators. We also advocate for public policies that increase the efficacy of criminal and civil laws pertaining to sexual violence and exploitation.
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