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The Salvation Army has an international Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking response and strategy that we are employing throughout the world. Read more here

The Slavery Footprint Team has designed an interactive platform to help us understand and reflect on ethical consumerism and how we can play a part to end human trafficking, found here

The Ontario Provincial Government offers a comprehensive online training on human trafficking and exploitation in Canada, found free here

ACAMS offers a free training for the financial sector, Fighting Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking, found here

Lived Experience Voices​

Migrant Worker’s Centre developed Hidden in Plain Sight; Labour Trafficking and Migrant Workers in Canada, found here

Clan Mothers Healing Village has developed an Indigenous led Survivor leadership knowledge gathering, found here

Timea’s Cause Online Training Institute offers education and initiatives engaging lived experience, found here

Canadian Research & Reports​

Migrant Worker’s Centre developed the report, Labour Trafficking and Migrant Workers in British Columbia, found here

The Native Women’s Association of Canada has published Our Spirits Are Not For Sale, found here

Covenant House has published Getting Out: A National Framework for Escaping Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Canada, found here

ACT Alberta has completed research on the intersections of race, migrant workers, and sexual exploitation in Alberta, found here

The Government of Canada released Moving Forward in the Fight Against Human Trafficking in 2018, found here

Related Resources​

Children of the Street Society offers toolkits and videos to prevent the exploitation of children and youth, found here

Fraser Health Authority offers Help Don’t Hinder, a free, online training for emergent health care providers across Canada, found here

MOSAIC and Ending Violence Association of BC, have compiled an excellent Risk Assessment Framework and additional materials for identifying forced marriage, and it’s relation to human trafficking, found here

The BC Ministry of Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Branch has developed a Trauma Informed Practice Guide that gives excellent information on how to best support survivors as service agencies, found here

The Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy has produced an important guide to support & develop allyship of Indigenous populations, found here

B.C.’s Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons offers a toolkit to raise awareness and prevent human trafficking in BC, found here

Ethical Storytelling​

The Salvation Army Illuminate are leaders in Canada for rehabilitative programming for Survivors. With this responsibility, we have made a commitment to Ethical Storytelling, joining thousands of agencies across the world and leading the initiative here in Canada. Recovery, safety, and protection of Survivors is paramount to us.

We recognize that raising up Survivor voice is an important component of changing the script of the story of human trafficking and of bringing truth out of the shadows, but historically across the world this has at times caused risk and harm to survivors without ethics in place. Human trafficking is a severe crime with serious impact on its victims, as well as ongoing risks of safety and re-exploitation.

Therefore we adhere to the following standards in storytelling of Survivor experiences through our programs, and encourage agencies across Canada to rise to these same standards:

    • No Survivor will be required to share any part of their story for public or promotional uses while accessing our programs. Their best interest and safety will always take precedent. We reject coerced advocacy exploitation of Survivors.
    • Survivors who express a desire to share their stories or input are provided appropriate training and one on one support to develop their message. Survivors are provided appropriate time to reflect on what they would like to communicate, with the goal of equitable partnership.
    • Opportunities to participate in internal research projects will be conducted with our established Ethics Guidelines, which align with Government of Canada standards & the World Health Organization, and/or Ethics Review where applicable.
    • We follow applicable laws, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s Guidelines on Justice in Matters Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime when working with minors.
    • Storytelling will make every effort to ensure that Survivors engaged in criminal or civil justice proceedings are not jeopardized or conditions violated.
    • Survivors are informed of what the information will be used for (for example, private or public teaching, website, etc), and who will be able to see it.
    • Survivors will give written informed consent for use, which can be revoked by them at any time.
    • Survivors currently engaged in our programs will use a pseudonym and any identifying details that will cause potential harm to them will be removed. No images of Survivor faces will be used, and any images with a Survivor will ensure their privacy is protected and as specialized consent.
    • Survivors who have accessed recovery will be provided access to grow as consultants and educators, and where appropriate, be provided honoraria for their time where possible.
    • We commit that Survivors who have achieved levels of recovery and stability will be offered opportunities to give their input in our program development and implementation, as well as evaluation and public education purposes.
    • We commit to using storytelling and images for the purpose of prevention & education, free of sensationalism and stereotypes.
    • Program funders who request survivor testimonies will be made aware of these standards. Research projects will ensure this lens is applied.

We encourage all exploitation serving agencies in Canada to adopt these standards, and sign the ethical storytelling pledge at ethicalstorytelling.com

SHIFT 1 Survivor-Led Research Report

SHIFT 1: Service Access is our first participatory, cross Canada research study examining how Survivors access services. This report was partially funded by The Department of Justice Canada. 

The goal is to to IMPROVE services for Survivors, encourage ACCOMMODATIONS when Survivors fall outside of program mandates, and to SUPPORT those seeking help and recovery in the best way possible. 

SHIFT 1: Service Access contains highly sensitive information. As an organization that walks with Survivors of human trafficking towards healing, restoration, and renewal, our first and foremost priority is ensuring Survivor safety. Far past a do-no-harm approach, we desire that every interaction with Survivors is one that constructively supports healing and growth, accurately assesses risk and inclusion, and engages ethical storytelling.

This is why we have developed an extensive ethical review framework applicable to every SHIFT research project we undertake. This review was partly sourced from an existing framework, further developed alongside a university-affiliated team of researchers, and reviewed by a partnered Psychologist.

We chose to engage a Participatory Action Research Design, emphasizing participation and action by Survivors affected by our research. We engaged Survivors throughout the study in collective inquiry and experimentation grounded in experience and social history, and offered tangible opportunities to have active involvement in the direction and activities of the study.

We conducted a robust safety assessment, and determined a study such as this is for a specific audience (service providers), and contains sensitive information that in the wrong hands could be used inappropriately and cause harm.

In consultation with our Survivor Committee, Practicum Students, and Consultants, we determined to release a small Executive Summary for the public. The full research report will be shared by invitation only with verified service providers in the field, and be offered in conjunction with training and dialogue. This supports the purpose to equip and train the field, to create helpful dialogue focused on growth, and to ensure Survivors truly have safe spaces to share their inputs without fear of inappropriate use or distribution.

All research participants have access to the full report and are provided additional support to process the results.

To review the Executive Summary, click here.

To access the Final Report, click here and input the password provided upon request (refer below):

Service providers from valid service agencies across Canada are invited to email us at connect@illuminateht.com to request to review this report and/or participate in training.