Action Coalition On Human Trafficking Alberta Association

Published purpose

This 48-month project with Action Coalition on Human Trafficking Alberta Association will develop and implement promising intervention practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking in rural and northern Alberta. This will be achieved by working with identified organizations to expand education and training on human trafficking; building community capacity by engaging and supporting rural and northern Alberta’s community members to deliver training resources and workshop materials, providing awareness and education on human trafficking; and collecting reports of human trafficking for a comprehensive and coordinated response for service providers and partners during the awareness and training activities. At the end of the project, the organization will have collected data, engaged with law enforcement, health care providers, frontline service providers, Indigenous-serving organizations and the community to provide them with awareness and education on human trafficking so that survivors can be appropriately identified and access supports and services in a more streamlined way, to prevent survivors of human trafficking from falling between the cracks. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. Supplemental funding will be used to translate documents on addressing human trafficking, continue developing partnerships, train staff, and strengthen engagement with the Indigenous community.