Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto

Published purpose

This 36-month project with the Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto will develop and implement promising practices that will include online/offline resources and community approaches to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for Indigenous women and gender diverse peoples with intellectual and cognitive disabilities who are at-risk of, are currently experiencing, and/or have survived human trafficking. This will be achieved by reconvening the Community Working Group with the addition of a Lived Experience Advisor; performing Community-Based Research, including conducting an Environmental Scan and holding Community Discussion Groups with key stakeholders (including people with lived experience); and developing resources for promising practices and a community strategy that responds to the identified needs of these vulnerable populations. At the end of the project, the organization will have examined the nature of trafficking experiences; developed culturally appropriate and disability sensitive online/offline resources; and implemented a community strategy. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.