A Sacramento nonprofit dedicated to helping survivors of sex trafficking is getting a new home and launching a fundraising campaign to help make sure they’re able to serve as many victims as possible. Community Against Sexual Harm, or CASH, serves women and girls impacted by sexual exploitation and abuse. Their current home in Oak Park allows them to serve dozens of people each day, but they need more space. In the KCRA 3 documentary “Escaping the Blade,” we heard from several CASH employees who were also sex trafficking survivors. They spoke about how CASH transformed their lives and allowed them to maintain steady jobs, take care of their children and escape their traffickers. On Wednesday, they announced the transfer of Sierra Health Foundation’s Alhambra Boulevard office building to CASH as their headquarters. Leaders say they still need $1.5 million to renovate the facility. Those improvements would include exam rooms, more drop-in space, showers, laundry and counseling suites. They’re also hoping to add a teen center.”When I look at this building and I see the structure of it and I know where we’re at and what we have, this is my dream come true and prayers answered,” said CASH Executive Director Sawan Vaden at an event announcing the campaign. She said CASH serves up to 60 people a day with things like case management and workforce development. “We just have all of these services and we never really quite had the room to do it, we just made the room to do it,” Vaden said. “So this building means we get to serve people more deeply and that we can even expand what we’re doing.” Congresswoman Doris Matsui was also at the event, saying it represents promising investment in this neighborhood. “What’s happening in Oak Park and in this building and beyond around the streets here to me is what is really beautiful about Sacramento,” Matsui said. For more details on the campaign and how CASH is hoping to further serve the community, visit here.KCRA 3 Investigates spoke to survivors, advocates, lawmakers and law enforcement about the problems they’re seeing on the streets and what they think needs to change. Watch “Escaping the Blade.”
A Sacramento nonprofit dedicated to helping survivors of sex trafficking is getting a new home and launching a fundraising campaign to help make sure they’re able to serve as many victims as possible.
Community Against Sexual Harm, or CASH, serves women and girls impacted by sexual exploitation and abuse. Their current home in Oak Park allows them to serve dozens of people each day, but they need more space.
In the KCRA 3 documentary “Escaping the Blade,” we heard from several CASH employees who were also sex trafficking survivors. They spoke about how CASH transformed their lives and allowed them to maintain steady jobs, take care of their children and escape their traffickers.
On Wednesday, they announced the transfer of Sierra Health Foundation’s Alhambra Boulevard office building to CASH as their headquarters. Leaders say they still need $1.5 million to renovate the facility. Those improvements would include exam rooms, more drop-in space, showers, laundry and counseling suites. They’re also hoping to add a teen center.
“When I look at this building and I see the structure of it and I know where we’re at and what we have, this is my dream come true and prayers answered,” said CASH Executive Director Sawan Vaden at an event announcing the campaign.
She said CASH serves up to 60 people a day with things like case management and workforce development.
“We just have all of these services and we never really quite had the room to do it, we just made the room to do it,” Vaden said. “So this building means we get to serve people more deeply and that we can even expand what we’re doing.”
Congresswoman Doris Matsui was also at the event, saying it represents promising investment in this neighborhood.
“What’s happening in Oak Park and in this building and beyond around the streets here to me is what is really beautiful about Sacramento,” Matsui said.
For more details on the campaign and how CASH is hoping to further serve the community, visit here.
KCRA 3 Investigates spoke to survivors, advocates, lawmakers and law enforcement about the problems they’re seeing on the streets and what they think needs to change. Watch “Escaping the Blade.”