PROGRAMS
MEMBERSHIP engagement PROGRAMS
We are building an interconnected community of survivors of slavery and human trafficking around the world who are leaders in own communities.
We provide opportunities to survivors to learn from one another and build strong peer support networks.
Survivors join as individuals, representing our own views, rather than having others speak for us.
We create space for survivors to share our voices, regardless of any formal leadership position.
UTTHAN Survivor Collective // Kolkata, India
movement Building
We believe there is a void of survivor voice and contribution within the global anti-trafficking/anti-slavery field, particularly related to formal leadership positions. This phenomenon undermines efforts to eradicate human trafficking and support long-term healing for survivors. Survivor Alliance envisions a self-led, bottom-up movement in contrast to the current model. Our efforts to both develop survivors as leaders and shift the attitudes of allies, or non-survivors, in sector leadership roles will result in an intersectional, inclusive movement that is truly by, of, and for survivors of slavery and trafficking.
CreateHER Stock // Neosha Gardner
Leadership Programs
Survivor Alliance creates opportunities for survivors to lead. By providing training and capacity building, we enable empowered leaders to engage in existing anti-slavery efforts or to create their own solutions. One example of this is our the Survivor Alliance Leadership Academy, an initiative designed to fill the gap for survivor leadership in the anti-trafficking movement. The Academy is an 18-month program designed to seed an overall system change within the sector by empowering survivors and educating allies. The content, created by and for survivors, consists of three modules that build upon one another to prepare survivors for a role within the anti-trafficking sector and provide the opportunity for practical application of skills.
Employment Pathways Program
We believe that employing survivors is a strategic approach to combatting human trafficking, and not merely an exercise in inclusion. 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. Financial freedom is a critical component to ensuring a survivor’s continued healing, lasting freedom, and the systemic eradication of human trafficking. 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.
allies training and development
Survivor Alliance builds bridges between survivors and the anti-slavery movement. Through our Allies Training Workshops and resources, we enable the anti-slavery field to become more ethically and meaningfully engaged with survivors as lived-experience experts and as professional consultants. We offer our standard “Allies Training: Nuts & Bolts for Survivor Engagement” to teams, organizations, or multi-agency partnerships looking to develop a shared language and foundation about survivor engagement. We also develop tailored and bespoke trainings to meet your team’s desired learning objectives and goals.
INVOLVING survivors in policy & intervention research (iNspire)
Building upon Indigenous Research Methodologies, the work of INSPIRE embraces knowledge production as a means for social change. Survivors co-produce research that supports sustainable freedom for survivors of slavery and human trafficking. Research projects must include lived-experience researchers throughout the project in a significant manner. INSPIRE also develops and disseminates best practices for conducting survivor-informed and survivor-led research. INSPIRE is a collaborative project with the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab.