Grants and Contributions:

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

HT20408

$52,500.00

Mar 12, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 37-month project with 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 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. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. Additional funds will be used to administer targeted, peer-based sessions with diverse survivors and prepare a What We Found report to inform the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence in Canada

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Scarborough, Ontario, CA M1R 5G8

001-2021-2022-Q1-00030

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Jun 21, 2021

Women's Centre for Social Justice

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.