Specialist areas of work and services:
Description:
HEAL Trafficking is dedicated to ending human trafficking and supporting its survivors, from a public health perspective.
Experience, Background and Services:
HEAL Trafficking is a united group of over 2,600 survivors and multidisciplinary professionals in 35 countries dedicated to ending human trafficking and supporting its survivors, from a public health perspective. Please join our network and commit to healing human trafficking!
Our vision
A world healed of trafficking.
Our mission
To mobilize a shift in the anti-trafficking paradigm toward approaches rooted in public health principles and trauma-informed care by:
Expanding the evidence base;
Enhancing collaboration among multidisciplinary stakeholders;
Educating the broader anti-trafficking, public health, and health care communities; and
Advocating for policies and funding streams that enhance the public health response to trafficking and support survivors.
Our guiding principles
HEAL Trafficking:
Engages in work that combats all forms of human trafficking;
Supports trafficked people of all genders, ages, races/ethnicities, religions, origins, cultures, and sexual orientations;
Believes all trafficked persons deserve access to a full range of health care including medical, mental/behavioral health, reproductive health, dental, and substance use disorder treatment services;
Approaches human trafficking from a public health perspective that incorporates a socio-ecological framework and prevention strategies; and
Promotes a survivor-centered, trauma-informed, evidence-based, practice-based approach to anti-trafficking efforts.