Peace + All Good
OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
Franciscan Peacemakers provides a pathway
to sustainable, healthy, safe, and productive lives for women engaging in prostitution due to sexual exploitation, trauma, human sex trafficking and addiction.
The service approach of Franciscan Peacemakers includes street outreach, a two-year residential program, meaningful employment, and advocacy work.
Connect: Outreach
Hospitality and outreach to women engaging in street prostitution to begin building relationships of trust. The Franciscan Peacemakers visit neighborhoods where prostitution is actively occurring, bringing bag lunches, hygiene products, warm clothes and empathetic presence to women.
The Franciscan Peacemakers Hospitality Center provides respite and peer support for women on Lisbon Avenue.
Healing, Safety, + Support
Clare Community is a two year program for women who are on their journey of recovery from sexual exploitation and substance addiction. Franciscan Peacemakers provides case management, recovery support, and employment. St. Bakhita Catholic Worker House provides housing for program participants . Women in the Clare Community are laying a solid foundation for life-long recovery, which they begin through an outpatient treatment program. This program gives residents time to gain employment experience as well as to engage in healing various aspects of their lives: trauma care, physical, emotional and mental health, legal financial, and relational healing.
Employ: Meaningful, living wage jobs
Survivors are provided living wage jobs in the Social Enterprise which handcrafts and sells all-natural bath, body, and home products. These products are available for sale online, at local events, and through over 100 Retail Partners across the United States.
The meaningful, supportive job at the Social Enterprise creates the opportunity to earn money while growing in both confidence and relationship skills.
Advocate: Educate the community
Franciscan Peacemakers staff and board provide education to Catholic parishes, school, and community groups to raise awareness about human trafficking. The sale of our bath and body products also provides an avenue for raising awareness within the larger Milwaukee community. Our team is also a part of the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force at the County level and interfaces with several Anti-Trafficking Advocacy groups in Southeastern Wisconsin.