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The Secure House for Girls—one of the
most recent SAGE Project endeavors—is San Francisco’s
first residential shelter for sexually exploited youth.
A cooperative project between the Edgewood Center for Children
and Families and The SAGE Project, with support from the San
Francisco Foundation, the Secure House for Girls will house
8-12 girls at a time for periods ranging from a few months
to two years. It will provide refuge to some of the nearly
3,000 children who are forced into commercial sexual exploitation—prostitution,
pornography, etc.—at any given time, just in San Francisco.
Modeled on our existing non-residential Youth Program, Secure
House staff and partner organizations in the community will
provide emotional and material resources and life skills building,
education, healthcare, trauma recovery counseling, substance
abuse prevention and recovery counseling and education, advocacy
within legal and medical systems, opportunities for play,
creative expression and physical activity, leadership and
communication skills development, and access to support through
pre-existing cultural or spiritual resources.
The Secure House for Girls will be a direct result of the
cooperation of many people and organizations in the San Francisco
community, including the Board of Supervisors' "End Youth
Exploitation Task Force," the San Francisco Foundation,
the Edgewood Center, SAGE, and others. We recognize and are
deeply grateful for the intervention of the San Francisco
Community in fighting the problem of youth sexual exploitation.
You can help! Contact us about donating to support the Secure
House for Girls! For more information, check out our "What
can you do?" link above.
Read a San Francisco Chronicle article about the Safe House
for Girls. Click
here.
For more information on CSE issues or alternative healing
modalities, visit the Information Center using the links above.
For more information about the SAGE Youth Program, or other
SAGE programs and services, use the links above, or contact
us at SAGE. |
