YWCA Halifax

Purpose

This 38-month project with the YWCA Halifax will develop and implement the Coordinated Access to Support Exit (CASE) model, a promising intervention practice to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking in Nova Scotia. This will be achieved by building wrap-around case conferencing tables, by providing survivors with culturally-relevant, trauma-informed and responsive supports, by increasing access to safe housing, and by evaluating the efficacy of coordinated access as a meaningful community-based tool to combat human trafficking. At the end of the project, the sector will have a new model of collaborative service provision for victims and survivors of human trafficking that is developed and tested. In turn, victims and survivors of human trafficking will have access to wrap-around supports to exit the sex trade, begin their healing and reintegrate into their communities. The project will include an external evaluation. The purpose of the external evaluation is to evaluate the promising practice(s) that was developed, tested and implemented during the course of this project. The evaluator will be external to the organization and will have experience and expertise in evaluation.