CAAGe: The Campaign Against Adult Grooming
CAAGE - the Campaign Against Adult Grooming
We Campaign
CAAGe raises awareness of adult grooming
We Protect
CAAGe helps protect people from adult grooming through a mix of pressure and support.
Help
CAAGe helps victims of adult grooming find solace, help and support.
We offer survivor-lead advocacy, run by volunteers, raising national awareness of adult grooming, coercive control, and institutional responses to grooming.
We offer education, help survivors tell their stories, and campaign. And we partner with, and liaise with other, professionals to deliver faster, better services than we can deliver ourselves, including CAAGe x Wobble, our new counselling service, and a private detective service.
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What is adult grooming
We use the word ‘grooming’ really loosely. But when we get to it’s essence - deceit and manipulation - it becomes easier to understand. CAAGE takes a look: What is adult grooming
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Life after adult grooming
Being groomed steals parts of your life.
Let’s help you get back on a good path for you.
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Adult grooming predators
Adult groomers don’t necessarily know they’re groomers.
And certain industries and professions attract them.
CAAGe takes a deep dive look at some of the unexpected (and expected!) places you’ll find them
NEW: CAAGe Counselling Partnership
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CAAGe (The Campaign Against Adult Grooming) has been undertaking anonymous research with victims of adult grooming.
If you have been groomed, please do contribute to help increase our understanding of adult grooming and its effects.
CAAGe: Practical help for common issues
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How to: legal support
CAAGe is currently working to partner for legal support. In the meantime, here are suggestions to help the search for lehgal support
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How to: sexual health checks
How to get testing for your sexual health after grooming.
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How to: write to your MP
Writing to your MP can make a difference.
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How to: get mental health support
Being groomed, as well whatever activity the target’s groomer subjects them to, can be incredibly damaging to people’s mental health. CAAGe take a look at how to access help and support, and to identify the signs of potential problems in order to get them sorted soonest.
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How to: the police
Involving the police in grooming cases, including reporting and appealing.
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How to: avoid adult grooming
We can’t avoid being targetted, but we can keep our eyes open for the signs.
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How to: spot the signs of adult grooming
Am I, someone I know or someone I’m aware of, a grooming victim - now or in the past?
The CAAGe website has been created to provide information and education about how and why adults are groomed, and what to do about it. It cannot and should not replace individual professional advice such as doctors or legal professionals, and is here to help you decide what help you need and to be able to access it more easily.
Everyone is different and different approaches, treatments and support will help different people at different times on their ‘journey’, coping with having been groomed, identifying adult grooming, or understanding it.
Individuals respond differently to different professionals, different treatments, different approaches, so do what’s right for YOU according to YOUR situation. CAAGe is here to help you identify what those things might be, not to recommend any fixed approach. We sincerely hope that you’ll find something useful in these pages.
Claire Thompson, CEO and Lead Campaigner
Adult Grooming: CAAGe (the Campaign Against Adult Grooming) shares information found along the way!
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CAAGe Media Reviews
Books, films, articles related to grooming with appropriate assessments or roundups.
(Please contact CAAGe if you have reviews to contribute or suggestions for things we should be reviewing.)
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Dating sites
The role of dating sites in perpetuating adult grooming
Cathy Burnham Martin