SAFE Coalition for Human Rights(SAFECHR) is an Accredited NGO with Special Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations in recognition of our work on reducing the scourge of labor, adoption, and sex-trafficking. We focus on all forms of gender-based violence especially sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and sex-trafficking.

SAFE Coalition for Human Rights is a Guidestar Platinum-rated nonprofit registered with the Illinois Secretary of State in March 2014 and with the Indiana Secretary of State in 2017. 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 dedicated staff and volunteer board, 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 2014 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 committee has worked to gather a diverse group of professionals to come together to find solutions and develop a working global task force that meets to implement these findings.

SAFECHR’s goal is to ensure that survivors are empowered and 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 2014 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. We have more recently opened THRIVE (THERAPEUTIC HOUSING RESPONSE TO INDIVIDUALS FROM VULNERABLE ENVIRONMENTS), with Ashley’s House being our first flagship program for sexually assaulted and victimized women. 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 is run by expert traumatologist clinicians with long histories of program development experience, and in working with victims, survivors.