CSEC

San Mateo County, CA (2015 YIC)

• • Description: To create a  Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) committee, which will bring together agency leaders and key stakeholders that serve the CSEC population to raise CSEC awareness and decriminalize CSEC population. The committee will develop CSEC and trauma-informed trainings, establish alternatives to the juvenile justice system, and facilitate policy and practice changes in San Mateo, CA.

  • Contacts:

    • Erika Chavez, Deputy Probation Officer, San Diego County Probation

    • Annie Corbett, Founder and CEO, Corbett Group Homes, Inc. and the R.I.S.E Programs, Inc. *NOTE* Annie is no longer with the Capstone team.

    • Rose Mukhar, Attorney, San Mateo County Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adults

Sacramento County, California (2014 MSI)

• • Description: Implement CSEC screening tool. Start a docket dedicated to cases involving CSEC youth that follows the tenets of CYPM. Ensure that all service providers and key stakeholders are trained on trauma-informed care and adolescent brain development. Develop partnership with local businesses to provide vocational and employment opportunities for youth on the docket.

    • Update (2017): The team has created a dedicated CSEC court docket for crossover CSEC youth, a CSEC Interagency Steering Committee, and signed an MOU. The MOU also established a new process and screening tool for identifying CSEC and youth at risk of being commercially sexually exploited, and developed a multidisciplinary team structure to work with identified CSEC youth. To create the CSEC screening tool (Commercial Sexual Exploitation - Identification Tool), the Capstone team partnered with the West Coast Children's Clinic to identify common indicators for CSEC. 

  • Contact: 

    • Keith Bays, Chief Probation Officer - Sacramento County

    • Stacy Boulware Eurie, Presiding Juvenile Court Judge - Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento

    • Michelle Callejas, Deputy Director - Sacramento County Child Protective Services

    • Traci Lee, Assistant County Counsel - Sacramento County, Office of the County Counsel

    • Matt Perry, Assistant Superintendent - Sacramento County Office of Education

    • Michael Shores, Assistant Chief Probation Officer - Sacramento County Probation Department

    • Uma Zykofsky, Deputy Director, Behavioral Health Services, Department of Health & Human Services - Sacramento County

Suffolk County, MA (2013 MSI)

• • • Description: Expand the current database for crossover youth and improve the services provided to those who are commercially sexually exploited in Suffolk County, MA. The main components of the project include:

      • • Convene subcommittees to address issues related to runaway youth at risk of commercial sexual exploitation.

        • Improve and expand the data collection system.

        • Create practice guidelines to work with runaway youth.

        • Enhance current training with updated data, and train key stakeholders regarding commercially sexually exploited children.

  • Update (2015): Beth Created a Missing and High Risk Youth Subcommittee, comprised of CSEC-specific youth-serving agencies and developed a draft standardized checklist to track CSEC risk factors for referred youth. The checklist was being reviewed by the committee, and the final product will be used at intake. The draft checklist allowed the organization (Support to End Exploitation Now Coalition) to expand its database. Has plan to develop practice guidelines and protocols to work with youth at-risk of CSEC. SEEN has also began collecting referral and child welfare involvement data on the CSEC population.

  • Contact: Elizabeth (Beth) Bouchard, Support to End Exploitation Now (SEEN) Coordinator, Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County