Employment Pathways
Financial freedom is a critical component to ensuring a survivor’s continued healing, lasting freedom, and the systemic eradication of human trafficking.
For survivors of human trafficking, lack of access to financial freedom can keep us operating from a state of survival and heighten vulnerabilities to re-exploitation.
Survivor Alliance’s Employment Pathways Program offers access to professional development gateways that are too often inaccessible for survivors of human trafficking. Our pathways allow people who have lived through exploitation to find meaningful employment as one avenue toward financial freedom. Our EP Program seeks to increase the number of survivors employed in economically stable positions.
The Employment Pathways program makes steps towards true freedom by offering access to professional development gateways to find meaningful employment and financial freedom that are often inaccessible to survivors through fellowships and consultant development.
Evaluating the Gaps in Employment Programs
for Survivors of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Promoting the economic security of survivors of human trafficking and modern-day slavery is a powerful way to equip and empower survivor leaders. Economic justice intersects with all survivor identities and needs, and employment programs for survivors are a key part of that justice.
Meeting survivor employment needs is more critical than ever. This report, built from the ground up by survivor leaders, details the existing gaps in global survivor employment programs and provides calls to action for organizations, funders, allies, and those working in policy.
Fellowships within Anti-Trafficking Sector
Survivor Alliance works closely with organizations in the anti-trafficking sector to host survivors in full time fellowship positions. The focus of the fellowship placements are based upon the needs of each host-organization and aims to educate survivor leaders about working within the nonprofit sector.
For the organizations, we provide training and support on ethical, equitable, employment for people with lived experience. For the fellows, we provide advocacy, peer mentorship, and clinically supervised support groups for fellows to connect with and one another.
Consultant Development
Many survivors get their start working in the field by obtaining contract positions. We work closely with survivor leaders who are interested in gaining experience or exploring different kinds of work in the field (research, teaching/training, peer mentorship, etc). Maintaining enough contract work to provide for oneself/family and managing numerous contracts can be challenging–Survivor Alliance works with survivors interested in becoming subcontractors to help simplify the contract management process and offer support along the way.
Learn more
If you are interested in learning more about the fellowships, becoming a host organization or fellow, or partnering with us as a fiscal sponsor, please reach out to our General Inquiries mailbox for more information: info [at] survivoralliance.org.