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Title:

Embedding Resilience. Grounding Resistance: Centering Trafficking Survivors for Transformative Change

Agreement Number:

HT20408

Agreement Value:

$500,000.00

Agreement Date:

Mar 12, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

Description:

This 37-month project with the Women’s Centre for Social Justice 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 for 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 around 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. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

Organization:

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Expected Results:

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

Location:

Scarborough, Ontario, CA M1R 5G8

Reference Number:

001-2020-2021-Q4-00055

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Recipient's Legal Name:

Women's Centre For Social Justice o/a WomenatthecentrE

Program:

Gender-Based Violence Program

Program Purpose:

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.