This has been a hard year for survivors of trafficking and their families.
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This has been a hard year for survivors of trafficking and their families. Service providers are limited by new restrictions on funding and immigration remedies for survivors. Law enforcement and prosecutors struggle to maintain trust with communities put at-risk, and to prioritize intensive human trafficking investigations. Immigrant and LGBTQIA communities are under particular attack, making them even more vulnerable to trafficking and less likely to come forward.
But we know the truth. Demonizing immigrants, cancelling trafficking services grants, refusing to protect LGTBQIA community members from discrimination; these policies are pushing trafficking victims back into the shadows.
Freedom Network USA has met those challenges head on with advocacy, training, and technical assistance for trafficking survivors and their supporters.
* We called for better legislation to support survivors and prosecute traffickers.
* We continue to fight policies that deny funding for housing and legal services for survivors.
* We fought back against disinformation campaigns meant to justify cruel anti-immigrant policies in the name of anti-trafficking.
We stand proud and speak out when others stay silent.
And we have had some success as we continue to build strength and coalition.
* We trained a record 650 advocates at our annual conference in 44 sessions led by advocates, practitioners and survivors of trafficking.
* Our FNTI Housing Training and Technical Assistance Project is improving access to housing for trafficking survivors. This year alone they provided 9 new fact sheets and hosted 8 webinars viewed by over 1,200 advocates.
* The 2019 TIP Report’s US Narrative reflected our priorities, recommended that the government fund comprehensive legal representation and increase efforts to address labor trafficking, and improve access to services and immigration relief for survivors.
Now, we need you to join us. We need to do more, but we can’t do it without you. As the federal grants we apply for are routinely cancelled or not awarded, we need to rely on individual gifts for our training programs and to strengthen our critical policy efforts.
Please consider a gift to Freedom Network USA this year. With your support we will continue to champion freedom and opportunity for trafficking survivors. Make your gift today at [link removed][UNIQID].
In partnership,
Jean Bruggeman
Executive Director
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