Organizations Filed Purposes:
Renee Jones Empowerment Center is a 501c3 organization that is unique in providing holistic restorative services for minor and adult human trafficking survivors and sexual assault victims . These victims face many adverse challenges such as physical and emotional abuse, poverty and addiction. The Center's mission is to empower these individuals to advocate for themselves and to improve their quality of life through personal, social and professional development. The Center is devoted to preventing human trafficking and sexual exploitation by actively engaging the community in anti-trafficking efforts and educating service professionals, law enforcement, educators, students, parents and the community on the realities of this crime.
The Renee Jones Empowerment Center is a wholly unique model of well-integrated, combined services designed to provide human trafficking survivors with holistic healing and restoration services.
Community Awareness, Public Engagement, Advocacy: to advocate for legislative reform so that state and federal laws assist human trafficking victims, penalize traffickers, and reduce the demand for sexual exploitation. Project Red Cord also offers a wide range of innovative human trafficking education, prevention and awareness programs that generally include two conferences, although the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to cancel one in 2020, community awareness events, a traveling human trafficking exhibition, a powerful photo exhibit depicting the stories of human trafficking and sexual assault survivors and the triggers that haunt them. Also, in 2020, the TRAPPED game, an interactive, life-sized board game developed to emphasize the importance of implementing prevention, awareness, and intervention activities for teens aged 12-18. These presentations are made to a variety of audiences which include lawyers, legislators, medical providers, law enforcement, at the Statehouse annual Human Trafficking event and symposium, various public forums with stakeholder organizations, survivors of human trafficking, service providers, state and local government agencies, schools, colleges, prisons and the general public.
Project Red Cord: The Renee Jones Empowerment Center (RJEC) provides continuing care programs and services to human trafficking victims, survivors and those vulnerable to being trafficked. RJEC staff and volunteers provide free programs and services that include life skills, coaching, benefit identification, counseling, group therapy, support groups, journal writing, art therapy, equine therapy, mentoring, self-esteem workshops, and prostitutes anonymous. RJEC also provides a court advocacy service by attending court hearings with adult and juvenile clients to support victims and their families and also the advocate informs the families of the continuing care programs and services offered at RJEC. The advocate also visits clients if they are in jail or treatment centers to maintain the support until they are able to come to the Center to receive services. Project Red Cord also offers a unique street outreach program called Project Red Cord Night Out to reach marginalized and underserved populations in communities and locations known for high levels of prostitution, poverty, and drug overdoses. This outreach provides information about free services, a variety of resources, food and personal care items to underserved populations in each of the communities.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Renee Jones | President and CEO | 40 | $74,984 |
| Elaine Geller | Treasurer | 15 | $0 |
| Joan Clark | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Donna Angelloti | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Trina Jones | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Carla Carter Lovejoy | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Sister Cecilia Libertore | Director | 30 | $0 |
| Catherine Brown | Director | 5 | $0 |
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