Our mission
#NoLongerSilent
Mission
Rooted in lived experience, we drive meaningful change and provide fundamental recovery support for survivors of human trafficking and childhood sexual abuse.
Vision
A future free of human trafficking, child sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation and where all survivors are heard, supported, and empowered.
What you need to know about the issue
Damages all aspects of a person’s life and can lead to problems like depression, substance abuse, crime, and suicide
90% of trafficked youth were sexually abused as a child.
Costs the healthcare, public safety, and judicial systems millions every year.
1 trafficking victim needs 20X the care of a domestic violence victim.
Happens more often than people think: 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys have suffered sex abuse of some kind.
Sexual exploitation crosses all social and economic boundaries.
Through our programs, we:
Prevent abuse
Voice Found delivers education across Canada to help people identify risk, respond, and stop child sex abuse and trafficking before it happens.
Support survivors
Through our programs we provide front line support and healthcare services for those who have been trafficked and for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation.
Grow skills and leadership
We provide survivors with a safe space to grow, where unique strengths are recognized and leadership is encouraged.
Our approach is guided by compassion, lived-experience, courage, honesty and strength. It is:
Survivor-led
We empower survivors to lead their own healing journey and recognize that they are more than what happened to them. We facilitate growth in all areas of their lives.
Client-centred
The needs of our clients come first with services provided in a considerate, non judgmental manner. We seek to minimize re-traumatization and further exploitation by focusing on their needs .
Partner-enhanced
We work together with service providers across Canada to fill service and funding gaps so we can all help more clients in need.
Our impact over the past decade has been to instil hope, and proactively change lives while reducing the social and financial burden of sex abuse and exploitation. We have:
Helped over 350 people as they exited trafficking situations. Supported over 450 adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Provided trauma-informed healthcare to over 350 people at risk of, being or who have been trafficked.
Saved the healthcare, public safety and judicial systems hundreds of thousands of dollars by diverting potential health and criminal issue.
Witnessed the courage of survivors as they overcome horrific trauma, heal from fallout issues like addiction, and move on to healthier lives.
Trained over 12,000 people on the issues of childhood sexual abuse, exploitation and human trafficking. Developed and delivered customized training for a wide variety of organizations, service providers, law enforcement, schools, government and the general public.
Voice Found helps people like:
Caitlin, who was trafficked as a sex worker when she was 13 and still at school. [1]
Sophia, who had to break the trauma bond with her abuser before she could move forward.
Matthew, who has panic disorder and just stopped using drugs.
Lachelle, who thought the abuse was her fault, and that sex work was her choice.
Alicia, who is working through complex mental health issues and suicidal ideation.
Irene, who needed emergency housing so she could leave her perpetrators apartment.
Janet, who is pressing charges against her abuser but afraid of appearing in court.
[1] All names have been changed.
