Organizations Filed Purposes:
Compassion First is a Christian relief organization serving child sex-trafficking survivors through long-term residential and community-based aftercare, legal advocacy, peer-to-peer law enforcement training and case-managed intervention support.
Compassion First continued in its relief and development efforts specific to anti-trafficking services in the following areas: 1) Continued full-capacity operation of an a full-function aftercare shelter in North Sulawesi. Programming and wrap-around care includes residential and community-based care, catch-up education, college planning, trauma counseling, discipleship, life skills training, resilience programming, etc.; 2) Final licensure and opening of a second full-function shelter in East Java and the welcome of its first residents (See #1 for program details); 3) Continued outreach and operational partnerships with local law enforcement specific to investigation and rescue of underage girls from sexual trafficking and forced prostitution inclusive of case-managed funding of intervention, case management of families, and case management/accompaniment of minors upon completion of intervention. 3) Operational program expansion in community development efforts specific to "cemetery " communities in East Java including preliminary expansion into an additional cemetery. Project includes education sponsorship, drop-in centers for children, teens, and adults, entrepreneurship training, tutoring, performing arts programming, martial arts, family support, case management, and life-skills training. 4) Continued partnerships with like-minded organizations (Indonesia specific) inclusive of program training. 5) Continued financial support and work exchange with Safety Compass, a local advocacy organization working in partnership with law enforcement in four Oregon counties.
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 |
|---|
| Mike Mercer | President & CEO | 40 | $130,430 |
| Valerie Bellamy | Dir of Operatio | 40 | $52,000 |
| Cody Cupper | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Lonnie Sproat | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Sarah Cepeda | Director | 2 | $0 |
| Greg Kaufer | Director | 8 | $0 |
| Greg Whitaker | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Shane Dwyer | Treasurer | 6 | $0 |
| Jena Andres | Director | 1 | $0 |
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