Grants and Contributions:

Peer Navigator for Sexually Exploited Girls in Foster Care

HT20385

$195,550.00

Jan 4, 2021 - Jun 30, 2024

This 27-month project with the Surrey Women’s Centre will develop and implement a peer support intervention model to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for sexually exploited youth and survivors of human trafficking. This will be achieved by planning, developing, implementing and evaluating a victim-centered, trauma-informed and gender-responsive peer support and intervention model for youth survivors of human trafficking. It will include a system navigation framework and wraparound model to coordinate formal and informal supports. At the end of the project, the organization will have their staff and community stakeholders trained in use of the new intervention model, and prepared to identify and respond to indicators of youth trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Surrey, British Columbia, CA V3T 5R5

001-2020-2021-Q4-00050

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Surrey Women's Centre Society

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.