SAFE Coalition for Human Rights is a nonprofit registered with the Illinois Secretary of State in March 2014. SAFECHR was formed to support the objectives of SAFE 2014 Conference : Sex-Trafficking Awareness, Freedom, and Empowerment (SAFE). The team is entirely made up of volunteers donating their time, energies, and commitment to making our citizen-driven, survivor-driven conference a success.
SAFECHR was born when a group of survivors attended a conference in November and shared their stories creating an impetus that their experiences and lack of wrap around services needed to fuel debate and discussion on how we can create a bridge from victim to survivor, from insensitivity to creative awareness, and from successful trafficker to incarcerated criminal.
Since January 2014, the volunteer commit- tee has worked together to gather a diverse group of professionals to come together to find solutions and develop a working global task force that meets each month to implement these findings.
The goal is to ensure that their voices are heard throughout the globe. Realizing the need for survivors to be the driving force in all that we do in combating human trafficking a paradigm shift was created in 2013 and is reflected in all our programs. Since then, SAFECHR has hosted four conferences at the national level and formed partnerships with organizations around the country to assist victims of human trafficking with placement, treatment, and rehabilitation. In this country we have between 100,000 to 300,000 victims and barely 2000 beds available creating enormous difficulties with placement and rehabilitation. The treatment program will be the implementation of a C-SAFE IRIS Program run by clinicians with long histories of program development experience and in working with CSEC victims, survivors – assisted by victim advocates.
SAFECHR Efforts at Prevention include:
Our Mission: