What We Do: Action Creating Change

Our work focuses on prevention, awareness, and building coordinated survivor support systems. We engage communities, partner with professionals, and advocate for stronger practices to address trafficking at multiple levels.

Working Toward Freedom from Exploitation for All People

Community Awareness & Professional Education

Deliver tailored, trauma-informed trainings to strengthen community knowledge and professional readiness. Training, provided in person or virtually, helps prevent victimization, improve identification and response, and equip professionals and the public to act with confidence.

Partnership Development for Survivor Support

Strengthen community capacity to identify and support survivors by building strategic partnerships. Collaborating to expand knowledge, standardize referral protocols, and develop a vetted network of survivor-specific providers to ensure timely, trauma-informed care and reliable referrals.

Municipal Policy & Licensing Advocacy

Advance municipal partnerships in McLean County to implement ordinances regulating massage businesses and equip officials with tools and training to disrupt trafficking in illicit massage businesses.

Advancing The Mission: Our First Year (2025)

Allies Against Trafficking was incorporated in July 2025, with programming beginning in the second half of the year. As a result, this reporting period reflects a partial year of activity. 

Hover over each box to learn about the successes of our first year. 

2025 Goal: Municipal Policy & Licensing Advocacy
Support McLean County municipalities in implementing ordinances that regulate massage businesses to strengthen oversight and disrupt trafficking in illicit massage businesses.
Impact Achieved!
Policy advocacy contributed to the unanimous adoption of a massage business licensing ordinance in Bloomington, IL. Since that time, multiple illicit massage businesses have closed in Bloomington.
2025 Goal: Community Awareness & Professional Education
Deliver human trafficking awareness trainings to at least 250 individuals across community and professional audiences to strengthen prevention and response capacity.
Goal Exceeded!
Delivered in-person and virtual trainings across multiple sectors, reaching 266 individuals. Participant confidence in recognizing grooming behaviors, identifying human trafficking, and reporting suspicious activity increased to over 90%.
2025 Goal: Partnership Development for Survivor Support
Partner with community organizations to deliver awareness training to reduce victimization, improve identification, and strengthen referral pathways.
Goal Exceeded!
Collaborated with five local service providers—McLean County ROSC, Home Sweet Home Ministries, SIU School of Medicine, DART, and McLean County CASA—to deliver human trafficking trainings for the public and professionals.

Ending human trafficking requires all of us!

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