STOP-IT Initiative Against Human Trafficking

STOP-ITs goal is to assist people in leaving/exiting/escaping their exploitive situation and/or helping them stay out. We do this by working alongside people to identify their needs and help them get those needs met. Needs including but not limited to: clothing, toiletries, identifying documentation, sustenance, shelter/housing, transportation, legal, medical, psychological, schooling, job connection, interpreter. Anything that a potential client identifies as a need or goal, we do our best to provide for it or connect them to a place that can provide for it. Although we are not miracle workers, and we work within existing service systems, but we do our best to assist exploited persons and with client's permission, we work alongside law enforcement, prosecutors, immigration attorneys, DCFS workers, medical providers and family members.

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