Hiatus House

Published purpose

This 44-month project with Hiatus House will develop and implement promising practices that will entail the development of guidelines and tools to help shelter professionals and allied partners working with survivors of Human Trafficking to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports to non-status, refugee, immigrant and racialized women. This will be achieved by hiring a project coordinator; conducting literature review and developing, implementing and disseminating of guidance and tools to screen, assess, and intervene effectively with survivors as they access shelter services. The project will foster partnerships with key stakeholders and include the voice of people with lived experience. At the end of the project, the organization will have advanced knowledge and developed effective interventions to help survivors of human trafficking. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. The supplement funding will be used to create training resources for primary and allied organizations working with survivors of human trafficking, implement training tools with additional agencies across the sector and/or person with lived experience in Chatham, Sarnia, Windsor-Essex, develop and disseminate public education tools and host a specialized community event to educate social service sector and increase awareness of exploitation within the community, identification of experiences of exploitation, and resources available to engage in proactive and preventative conversations.