Alberta Native Friendship Centres Association

Published purpose

This 36-month project with the Alberta Native Friendship Centres Association will develop and implement an Indigenous youth led, culturally relevant prevention training and education program that will advance knowledge, awareness and empower at-risk Indigenous youth and Indigenous survivors of human trafficking in Alberta. This will be achieved by assessing gaps in knowledge concerning human trafficking and developing a culturally relevant workshop curriculum; training and empowering Indigenous youth to become facilitators and community advocates of human trafficking prevention; and virtual workshops and engagement with Indigenous youth delivered by peers. At the end of the project, the organization will honour the workshop participants with a completion ceremony and encourage Indigenous youth to be agents of change to shift the course of human trafficking in Alberta. They will develop social media public service announcements based on what the workshop participants learned and the community impact, to be shared beyond the project and increase awareness for Indigenous peoples. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.