The Trafficking & Indigenous Women with Intellectual, Cognitive and Psychosocial Disabilities: Promising Preventative Practices initiative seeks to learn more about the specificity of these experiences to develop and implement culturally and disability sensitive promising practices for potential community supporters and women and gender diverse people themselves.

The first step in developing promising practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for Indigenous women and gender diverse peoples with intellectual, cognitive, and psychosocial disabilities, is to learn more about:

The nature of trafficking experiences, risk factors, service barriers and supports needed for Indigenous women and gender diverse people with intellectual, cognitive, and psychosocial disabilities who may be vulnerable to trafficking.

This is the primary objective of the research component of this project. The information gleaned from the research process will be used to develop resources and community strategies that will advance knowledge on promising practices for this population.