The Resource Library includes fact sheets, promising practices, tools, templates, and training materials developed by subject-matter experts with direct experience working with survivors. Resource topics address current trends and challenges in the field.
Search Results 35 matching results for "Promising Practices"
Vicarious Trauma in Anti-Trafficking Housing Work
Led by Katie Papke, LMSW, CAADC, CCHTVSP, and moderated by Freedom Network USA, This session explored the impact of vicarious trauma, common reactions to secondary trauma, and practical strategies for self-care, mindful regulation, and trauma-informed organizational practices—plus a moment to pause and breathe together.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Webinars & Videos
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Housing Promising Practices Trauma Informed
Demographics: Adults Foreign National LGBTQIA+ Men and Boys US Citizen/Legal Permanent Resident Youth
Housing Navigators: An Innovative Strategy to Improving Housing Access for Trafficking Survivors
Housing Navigators are one strategy for assisting survivors of trafficking who face unique housing
barriers. This resource will provide an overview of the Housing Navigator position, explain the specific responsibilities of the position, and how those duties can be implemented within anti-trafficking housing programs.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Promising Practices
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Housing Housing Navigation Promising Practices
Demographics: Adults
Re-Centering Sex Worker Safety in Anti-Trafficking Work: Perspectives from the Field.
Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) and the National Survivor Network (NSN) have developed the following guidelines to help anti-trafficking organizations work more collaboratively with sex worker safety advocates, some of whom experienced human trafficking, and to reduce harm that anti-trafficking efforts cause to those in the sex trades.
Levels: Advanced Intermediate Introductory
Material Types: Promising Practices Reports Tools
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Awareness Case Management Foreign Nationals Legal Services Policy Program Management Promising Practices Public Health Safety Planning Sex Work Trauma Informed
Demographics: Adults Foreign National LGBTQIA+ Men and Boys US Citizen/Legal Permanent Resident
Screening Guidelines for Housing Programs
This document provides anti-trafficking service providers with tips on best practices for screening trafficking survivors for housing programs. This resource includes information about screening in, eligibility criteria, and warm referrals when working with housing survivors of trafficking.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Promising Practices Tools
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Housing Promising Practices
Housing Intake Template
This template provides a fillable questionnaire to assist anti-trafficking service providers with completing a housing intake with a survivor. This resource includes questions about survivor health and wellbeing, safety, and housing needs.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Promising Practices Tools
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Housing Promising Practices
Intake Guidelines for Anti-Trafficking Housing Programs
This intake guide gives anti-trafficking service providers information on how to best conduct a survivor intake into a housing program. This resource includes recommendations on questions to ask at intake, ways to conduct a successful intake.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Promising Practices Tools
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Housing Promising Practices
Building Trauma-informed Practices for Anti-Trafficking Housing Programs
This toolkit aims to provide a framework that anti-human trafficking providers offering housing services can utilize to build trauma-informed, person-centered, and voluntary housing programs for trafficking survivors.
Levels: Intermediate
Material Types: Fact Sheets Tools
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Housing Promising Practices Trauma Informed
Demographics: Adults
The Intersection of Substance Use and Housing
This fact sheet provides an in-depth overview of the intersection of substance use and housing. It details how providers can support survivors who may be actively using substances through trauma-informed and voluntary services. The fact sheet also provides tips for supporting survivor well-being and recovery.
Levels: Intermediate
Material Types: Fact Sheets
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Housing Promising Practices Safety Planning Trauma Informed
Demographics: Adults
Supporting the Education and Employment Needs of Survivors with Criminal Records Factsheet
This factsheet, created by Freedom Network USA and Futures Without Violence, explains the barriers that trafficking survivors who have criminal records face and what advocates can do to support them with their education and employment needs.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Reports
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Criminal Record Relief Promising Practices
Path to Freedom Report
In this report, twelve of the leading non-profit organizations in the country outline a set of best practices for programs that seek to promote entrepreneurship for survivors of trafficking, and individuals with intersecting vulnerabilities.
