Grants and Contributions:

Journey to Justice: Equitable Access to Justice for Trafficked Women

HT20327

$198,785.00

Mar 15, 2021 - Mar 31, 2023

This 24-month project with the London Abused Women's Centre will develop and implement an intervention practice that will include trauma-informed support, services and resources for victims and survivors of human trafficking for sexual exploitation. This will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking in London-Middlesex, Ontario, including sexually-exploited/trafficked women/girls from vulnerable groups (at-risk youth/Indigenous, racialized/LGBTQ2S+/homeless/street-involved/poor/living with disabilities). This will be achieved by establishing and consulting a Survivors’ Advisory Committee; collaborating with community agencies; providing survivors and victims of trafficking with supports to assist them in accessing the criminal justice system, victim compensation/other funding, and therapy or resources; and in taking social justice action to help recover and heal. This will also be achieved by developing resources to share with other service providers to help victims of human trafficking. At the end of the project, the organization will have supported victims/survivors in accessing the justice system and/or alternatives; provided supports/resources/tools to empower them to heal, recover and rebuild their lives; ensured that survivors were an integral part in the development, implementation and evaluation stages; and developed and disseminated resources demonstrating successful intervention practices. 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.

London, Ontario, CA N6A 5P9

001-2020-2021-Q4-00037

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Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

London Abused Women's Centre

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.