Empowering Young Men In Ending Sexual Exploitation

Progress Report on the Implementation of

CAASE’s Prevention Curriculum:

Empowering Young Men to End Sexual Exploitation

April, 2013

Spring has traditionally been a very busy time for the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation’s education team.  As schools end their spring breaks, they begin a mad dash begins to squeeze in as many workshops as possible before the school year comes to a close.  Needless to say, this keeps the team very busy. 

So far, in 2013 the prevention educators have:

• Facilitated Empowering Young Men to End Sexual Exploitation with 387 young men between the ages of 14 and 18;
• Facilitated Empowering Young Women to End Sexual Exploitation with 294 young women between the ages of 14 and 18;
• Presented workshops on topics such as healthy relationships, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and human trafficking to 739 young people between the ages of 14 and 18;
• Scheduled presentations and workshops for the rest of the spring with the remainder of our partner schools;
• Begun revising the program evaluation tool with the help of a doctoral student;
• Begun adapting the Empowering Youth curricula for lower grade levels; and
• Distributed both the Empowering Young Men to End Sexual Exploitation and the Empowering Young Women to End Sexual Exploitation curricula in two more states.

By the end of the 2012-2013 academic year, the CAASE prevention educators expect to have reached well over 2000 students in 11 different schools across the city of Chicago, and inspired at least three student-led service projects.  Thank you for your support of our efforts.  This program is continuing to each day, and is now receiving national attention for the innovative way in which it engages young people—especially young men—in a conversation about ending sexual violence and exploitation.  Please continue to support CAASE’s prevention team as we continue to empower the young men and women of Chicago to make a difference.