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In light of our rebranding and commitment to a new direction, we are dedicated to building strong relationships with survivors to ensure their experiences, needs, and goals inform every aspect of our work. This survivor-centered approach is fundamental to the development of our programs, services, and policies. Based on feedback from survivors, service providers, and community members, we developed a set of 7 recommendations grouped under several key elements:

1. Culturally Based Gender-Based Trauma-Informed Approaches: Emphasize building relationships with survivors to ensure their voices shape services.
2. Prevention: implement education in schools, parenting programs, public awareness campaigns and community conversations about healthy relationships, danger signs understanding historical trauma and its impacts and cultural teaching that can strength families
3. Safety of Survivors: Crate safe places, utilize outreach workers provide information on where to get help and simplify access to services.
4. Supports for Survivors: Offer counselling, mentorship, peer support, safety planning, support groups for survivors and mothers of survivors and advocates/navigators to help survivors access services.
5. Transition to Different life: Providing long term counselling support programs emergency travel funds, relocation and name changes, transitional housing, and culturally safe trauma informed employment.
6. Agency training and Collaboration: Conduct culturally safety training, develop a promising practices portal foster relationship building establish collaboration tables and promote joint action among police, health services and indigenous front-line providers.
7. Policy and System reforms: advocate for changes in policing, courts and heal care and conduct more research to determine the extent and nature of Indigenous/ Black human trafficking in mining and other resources industries.
8. Comprehensive Care model: Integrate mental health, physical health, legal support financial assistance and education services in one pave to streamline the recovery proves and survivors.
9. Culturally competent services: ensure services are culturally sensitive and tailored to the needs of Black and Indigenous survivors through cultural competency training and hiring staff from these communities.
10. Community- Driven and Survivor- Led Programs: Establish a community advisory board and create programs led by survivors to empower and provide peer support.
11. Accessibility and Inclusivity: offer mobile and virtual services to ensure accessibility and provide services in multiple languages spoken by the communities we serve.