Grants and Contributions:

Anti-Human Trafficking Education & Supports in Rural and Northern Alberta

HT20275

$498,490.00

Apr 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2025

This 48-month project with Action Coalition on Human Trafficking Alberta Association will develop and implement promising intervention practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking in rural and northern Alberta. This will be achieved by working with identified organizations to expand education and training on human trafficking; building community capacity by engaging and supporting rural and northern Alberta’s community members to deliver training resources and workshop materials, providing awareness and education on human trafficking; and collecting reports of human trafficking for a comprehensive and coordinated response for service providers and partners during the awareness and training activities. At the end of the project, the organization will have collected data, engaged with law enforcement, health care providers, frontline service providers, Indigenous-serving organizations and the community to provide them with awareness and education on human trafficking so that survivors can be appropriately identified and access supports and services in a more streamlined way, to prevent survivors of human trafficking from falling between the cracks. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. Supplemental funding will be used to translate documents on addressing human trafficking, continue developing partnerships, train staff, and strengthen engagement with the Indigenous community.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Edmonton, Alberta, CA T5J 2J6

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Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Increase of agreement value & change of end date

Aug 21, 2024

Action Coalition On Human Trafficking Alberta Association

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.