Giving Tuesday 2024

Today is Giving Tuesday, a global celebration of radical generosity, where communities come together to create meaningful change. This year, we hope that you will support our work at the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA) to end sexual violence and create safer and more equitable communities.
NCCASA serves dozens of member organizations and advocates across North Carolina, including 94 rape crisis centers, by providing training and technical assistance, creating and curating resources, and offering funding opportunities for member organizations and advocates across North Carolina. NCCASA also directly supports survivors through our educational programming, training, and advocacy efforts.
Your generosity helps to make our programming sustainable and enables us to support our programs and direct representation of survivors who have shared testimonials about their experience with NCCASA’s legal services. The testimonials below reflect the heart of our work—to empower survivors and build meaningful and sustainable prevention and advocacy programs.
In this work, every dollar counts. Whether you choose to donate $5 or $500, any amount furthers our capacity to address sexual violence across our State. Thank you for supporting NCCASA’s mission to end sexual violence and for amplifying our work.

NCCASA now provides a new service that helps survivors with one of the steps to repair their credit. As part of the Debt Bondage Repair Act, survivors can remove adverse information from their credit report that is related to events that took place during and after their human trafficking experience. Poor credit bars survivors from things like housing, employment, or car purchases.

Survivors of human trafficking can have specific information blocked from their credit reports. Some examples provided by Polaris Project include: “prior evictions, late rental payments, credit card or loan defaults, unpaid bills that went to a collection agency, criminal convictions that were the result of a trafficking experience, and bankruptcy filings.”

Survivors must provide the following information for eligibility:
1. Proof of identity
2. Victim Determination Documentation
3. A list of what needs to be blocked that was a result of a survivor’s trafficking experience

NCCASA is an NGO authorized by the NC Department of Justice that can provide a Victim Determination Document (VDD): a signed document stating/attesting a person is a victim of human trafficking, as it is defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000:

● Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining,patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the personinduced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age (22 USC § 7102).

● Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery, (22 USC §7102).

To request information about obtaining from NCCASA a signed Victim Determination Document for credit repair as specified under the Debt Bondage Relief Act, please email [email protected] or call 919-871-1015.