Parenting Challenges! What is Normal? What is Not? How To Deal With It.

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 the SAFE 2014 Conference: Sex-Trafficking Awareness, Freedom, and Empowerment (SAFE). The upper executive management team is entirely made up of volunteers; donating their time, energies, and commitment to making our professionals-driven, survivor-led organization a success. We also have paid staff notably Survivor Leaders, who serve as program directors, Resident Peer Support Specialists, and Survivor Trainers and Mentors.

SAFECHR was born when a group of 4 survivors presented at a professional conference in November 2013 at the Oakbrook Marriot, in Illinois. They arrived dressed professionally to speak to doctors and share their lives. Instead, there were only 6 attendees, and the rest were attending a standing room only session in the next room – on HIPPA. Devastated and in tears, they looked crestfallen and felt completely marginalized, unheard and worse – retraumatized. The founder and her colleague who chaired the session took them to lunch and requested the very kind management to provide space. We were given a separate lunchroom and began to debrief. They shared their heartbreaking 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. Four months later, their voices led to the birth of SAFECHR.