The Collaborative to End Human Trafficking

“The form 990 was prepared by an independent cpa and is reviewed with the president and ceo and bookkeeper prior to distributing to the board for final approval. Upon approval of the board the form 990 is electronically filed.”

“Each year, the board members are asked to review the organization's conflict of interest policy which is contained both in its code of regulations and also in a certificate provided to them for signature. Among other things, the policy makes clear that all decisions of the board of the organization are made solely on the basis of a desire to promote the best interest of the organization and the public good. The conflict of interest statement requests board members to identify to the best of their knowledge any affiliations with organizations that may be potentially related to the financials or other substantive operations of the organization. They are also asked to identify circumstances involving either themselves, or a member of their extended family, that may be construed as a conflict of interest.”

“The board of directors annually evaluates the performance of the executive director. Compensation is based on performance and compared to other area mission-comparable organizations of similar size. Compensation for staff within the organization is based on performance and is in relation to other area mission-comparable organizations of similar size.”

“The organization's governing documents, form 1023, form 990 conflict of interest policy and financial statements are made available to the public upon request. The form 990 (without schedule b) can also be found on several publicly-accessible websites.”

“The collaborative to end human trafficking b program service accomplishments for the fiscal year 2022/2023 include: - reached 22,984 individuals with all programming combined - this is a 40% increase from previous year (210% increase from 2021-2023) - total education and training programs provided (virtual and in-person): 250 - total education and training program participants: 7,984 - total in-person program participants: 4,830 (80% increase over last year) - total virtual program participants: 3,154 (315% increase over last year) - virtual program participant occupations: government: 8% social workers/healthcare professionals: 18% law enforcement: 8% educators: 30.5% nonprofit/service providers: 32.5% survivors: 3% - conducted outreach to 15,000 individuals (26% increase) - program participants are local, statewide, nationally, and internationally - maintained standardized program data tracking and outcome reporting mechanisms - maintained interactive resource map (map of current, accessible list of available services and resources in ne ohio) for website - program outcome survey/metrics to measure impact and produced outcome report with cwru begun center (september 2022- september 2023) - 99% of participants would recommend our programs to others - nearly all respondents indicated their knowledge of human trafficking increased after attending the presentation (98%). Most respondents indicated they felt more prepared to identify human trafficking compared to before the presentation. - 86 ceu's distributed to social workers - held thriving youth summit on february 17-18, 2023. More than 100 individuals from 65 organizations came together for a very empowering thriving youth summit, facilitated by the cwru community innovation network. - survivor advisory council grew to 14 members (40% increase) - greater cleveland's coordinated response gccrtht: currently 75 organizations are part of gccrtht (increase of 5 member organizations from last year) - in 2023, we held 6 large gccrtht meetings with an average of 50-60 people in attendance; we held 29 working group meetings between the 5 established working groups. Each group has 5-8 gccrtht members participating in them. Working groups and objectives: legal and legislative - objectives: understand shifts required in the human trafficking response system (locally/statewide) and identify laws and public policy that can address them/build coalition policy agenda. - insight and learning (data/information sharing) - objectives: collect, aggregate and synthesize data to better understand both the scope of human trafficking and the ability of the trauma response system to serve survivors and prevent victims of trauma from becoming vulnerable to human trafficking. - safe housing for survivors - objectives: develop trauma informed short-term and long-term housing continuum of care (identifying existing resources and developing strategy for new ones) for survivors of trafficking and those vulnerable to human trafficking. - wrap around services - strategy goal statement: to better understand, fundamentally, what we mean/is expected of wrap around care so that we can identify barriers/gaps in services and eliminate them. - trauma informed training and education oobjective: service providers across the entire trauma response system need to be trained and have access to tools and techniques that help them to identify victims of human trafficking and to help trauma victims avoid becoming vulnerable to human trafficking.”