Empowering Young Men In Ending Sexual Exploitation

Progress Report on the Implementation of

CAASE’s Prevention Curricula:

Empowering Young Men to End Sexual Exploitation and

Empowering Young Women to End Sexual Exploitation

March, 2015

As schools move toward the end of the academic year, the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation’s education team has been busy facilitating as many workshops as possible. With spring break approaching and summer following quickly after, educators have been eager to engage their students in conversation about sexual exploitation through partnerships with CAASE.

So far, in 2015 the prevention educators have:

• Facilitated Empowering Young Men to End Sexual Exploitation with 124 young men between the ages of 14 and 18;
• Facilitated Empowering Young Women to End Sexual Exploitation with 106 young women between the ages of 14 and 18;
• Presented workshops on topics such as sexual harassment, consent, and human trafficking to young people between the ages of 14 and 18 throughout the Chicago-land area;
• Scheduled presentations and workshops for the rest of the spring with the remainder of our partner schools;
• Developed partnerships with 6 new school across Chicago;
• Inspired an art exhibit that raised awareness of human trafficking in Chicago and was created by students at one of our partner schools.

Thank you for your support of our efforts.  Students who have completed the Empowering Youth to End Sexual Exploitation programs have described the programs as having “opened my eyes and brought more clarity along with awareness to this topic” and as inspiring them to “respect everyone regardless of their gender” and to “raise awareness through social media.”  Please continue to support CAASE’s prevention team as we continue to empower the young men and women of Chicago to make a difference.