Embedding Resilience & Grounding Resistance

This initiative aims to develop supports & tools created by and for trafficking survivors that will reignite their power and resilience through survivor-led advocacy and education.

There is growing awareness of human trafficking in Canada, communities and governments have quickly realized that survivors of trafficking require different supports than other forms of gender-based violence.

We completed an environmental scan of our membership and found that 9% of members identified as survivors of trafficking. With this knowledge, we mobilized our anti-trafficking portfolio to support survivors, advocate for change and raise awareness.

Portfolio: Research & Education

Using traditional & novel tools for information gathering, to better understand the nuances of gendered violence.

Funders

WomenatthecentrE Team

Nicole Fontyn-Taylor (She/Her), Program Director

Mandira Arnab Aich (She/Her), Project Manager

Maya Casanova (She/Her), Project Partnership & Evaluation Specialist

Sandy Anaya (She/Her), Project Coordinator

• This 37-month project will develop and implement promising intervention practices to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations of survivors of human trafficking in Ontario, Alberta, Yukon, British Columbia, and Quebec.

  This will be achieved by developing and delivering a survivor-led, “train-the-trainer” training program to front-line workers, hotel staff, healthcare workers, law enforcement, and members of the media, as well as the community at large; by shifting the public discourse of survivors to focus on their strengths, resilience, and resistance within the context of human trafficking; and by partnering with agencies and organizations that are well-known for cultivating research, advancing knowledge and advocating in the field of human trafficking to conduct participatory ground-breaking research within the Canadian context.

  At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a Canada-wide membership program, designed by and for survivors of human trafficking, that focuses on community, collective healing, peer support, advocacy, training and awareness-raising activities and opportunities.