Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society

Published purpose

This 49-month project with Supporting Women's Alternative Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society will develop and implement prevention, response services, and promising intervention practices to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for im/migrant sex workers who experience systemic vulnerability to human trafficking. This will be achieved by providing trafficking prevention and response services, filling the gap in province-wide services, educating provincial partners on the realities, reducing barriers to service among provincial organizations, informing im/migrant sex workers of province-wide services, and empowering them to access services in the communities in which they live and work. At the end of the project, the organization will have provided prevention and response services to women in Greater Vancouver, developed and implemented promising prevention and intervention practices, built province-wide service network with partner organizations, and empowered im/migrant sex workers across BC to access local community services. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. The supplemental funding will be used to scale the initial promising practice by engaging and mentoring settlement agencies to reduce barriers to service for im/migrant sex workers, providing trafficking prevention and intervention for im/migrant sex workers in new communities, informing them of low-barrier services, and empowering them to access settlement services in the communities in which they live and work.