Empowering Young Men In Ending Sexual Exploitation

Progress Report on the Implementation of

CAASE’s Prevention Curriculum:

Empowering Young Men to End Sexual Exploitation

March, 2014

As the snow and ice begin to melt, the CAASE prevention education efforts are really heating up.

So far in 2014, the prevention educators have:

• Facilitated Empowering Young Men to End Sexual Exploitation with 131 young men between the ages of 14 and 18, in three different high schools;
• Facilitated Empowering Young Women to End Sexual Exploitation with 89 young women between the ages of 14 and 18, in two different high schools;
• Trained 15 educators on how to facilitate the Empowering Youth program.

 Going forward through the spring and summer, the prevention team will: 

• Continue facilitating Empowering Young Men and Empowering Young Women;
• Participate as a guest panelist at the Illinois Capital Forum; and
• Translate all prevention education materials into Spanish.

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.