Grants and Contributions:

Effective Intervention for Survivors of Human Trafficking Accessing Shelter Services

HT20314

$235,229.00

Jan 31, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024

This 44-month project with Hiatus House will develop and implement promising practices that will entail the development of guidelines and tools to help shelter professionals and allied partners working with survivors of Human Trafficking to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports to non-status, refugee, immigrant and racialized women. This will be achieved by hiring a project coordinator; conducting literature review and developing, implementing and disseminating of guidance and tools to screen, assess, and intervene effectively with survivors as they access shelter services. The project will foster partnerships with key stakeholders and include the voice of people with lived experience. At the end of the project, the organization will have advanced knowledge and developed effective interventions to help survivors of human trafficking. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. The supplement funding will be used to create training resources for primary and allied organizations working with survivors of human trafficking, implement training tools with additional agencies across the sector and/or person with lived experience in Chatham, Sarnia, Windsor-Essex, develop and disseminate public education tools and host a specialized community event to educate social service sector and increase awareness of exploitation within the community, identification of experiences of exploitation, and resources available to engage in proactive and preventative conversations.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Promising practices are incorporated by the GBV sector into new or enhanced supports for target populations.

Windsor, Ontario, CA N9A 1W2

001-2020-2021-Q4-00035

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Increase of agreement value & change of end date

Oct 25, 2023

Hiatus House

Gender-Based Violence Program

The purpose of the GBV Program is to strengthen the GBV sector to address gaps in supports for two groups of survivors: 1) Indigenous women and their communities, and 2) underserved populations (including women living with a disability, non-status/refugee /immigrant women, LGBTQ2S, gender non-conforming people and ethno-cultural women) in Canada. The Program provides grant and contribution funding to Canadian organizations to improve supports to help create long-term, comprehensive solutions at the national, regional, and local levels.