Covenant House Vancouver

Purpose

This 32 month project with Covenant House Vancouver will develop and implement intervention practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for youth aged 16 to 24 at risk of, or survivors of, sexual exploitation and human trafficking in Vancouver. This will be achieved by researching, drafting, distributing and evaluating a practice guide, tool kit, and training model to support frontline staff and community partners to provide empowerment supports for trafficked youth. At the end of the project the organization will have strengthened policies and practices with respect to human trafficking and sexual exploitation of youth. CHV staff will be fully trained and supported to implement best practices, and the tool kit generated by the project will be shared at a training session for community partners. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices. The supplement funds will be used to address higher project-related costs than what was budgeted in the project outset.