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.
Voluntary Services for Housing Providers – FNUSA Housing TTA Project
This webinar discusses the foundational concepts of voluntary services and how they can be applied to housing programs. The voluntary services model is a trauma-informed, survivor-centered approach based on the idea that participating in services should be voluntary and not a condition of receiving shelter or other housing services. With this approach, housing and service providers can prioritize survivors' choices, needs, and interests. This webinar will provide grantees the opportunity to review policies and procedures through a voluntary services lens and discuss frequently asked questions pertaining to the voluntary services approach.
Material Types: Webinars & Videos
Keywords: Housing Housing Assistance Housing Navigation Trauma Informed
Demographics: Adults
An Introduction to the Housing TTA Project: Grantee Orientation with FNUSA & OVC
This webinar was produced by Freedom Network USA under Grant Number 15POVC-23-GK-04059-HT, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this document are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Material Types: Webinars & Videos
Keywords: Housing Housing Assistance Housing Navigation
Demographics: Adults
Themes for the National Standards of Care
As part of the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP)'s Standards of Care initiative, and in collaboration and consultation with the Technical Working Group (TWG) ofsubject matter experts, Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) has identified seven consensus-derived themes for the National Standards of Care for Anti-Trafficking Service Providers project.
Material Types: Fact Sheets
Keywords: Standards of Care
Housing Navigators: An Innovative Strategy to Improve Housing Access for Trafficking Survivors
This webinar discussed the newly introduced Housing Navigator position in anti-trafficking housing programs, the skill sets needed within this position, organizational hiring and retention strategies, and how incorporating a Housing Navigator supports innovative strategies for Human Trafficking survivors seeking housing services.
Material Types: Webinars & Videos
Keywords: Housing
Applying the Five Tiers of Economic Empowerment to Anti-Trafficking Housing Programs
This resource will provide multiple strategies to support trafficking survivors’ education and employment growth. Utilizing the Futures Without Violence Five Tiers of Economic Empowerment model, service providers can implement economic empowerment throughout a
range of shelter and housing options. The guidance provided within the document will include ways that these tiers can be woven into short, medium, and long-term housing services.
Levels: Intermediate
Material Types: Promising Practices Toolkit
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Economic Empowerment Housing Housing Assistance Job Assistance Skill Development
Demographics: Adults
Labor Trafficking Considerations for Housing Providers
Labor Trafficking is often under-identified due to a lack of training and awareness. Survivors of labor trafficking may be eligible for resources such as housing, case management, immigration relief, record expungement, public benefits, and restitution through both civil and criminal courts. Throughout this document, we will briefly cover how housing programs can begin to identify and define labor trafficking, screen for labor trafficking, and incorporate practices that include labor trafficking survivors seeking housing services.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Fact Sheets Promising Practices
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking
Keywords: Forced Labor Housing Screening
Demographics: Adults
Standards of Care for Anti-Human Trafficking Service Providers: Process Guidance
This process guidance document was developed by RTI through FNUSA’s Standards of Care for Anti-Human Trafficking Service Providers Project. It provides a transparent, systematic, evidence-based process to achieve consensus and develop standards of care for anti-human trafficking service providers.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Reports Tools
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Standards of Care
Standards of Care for Anti-Human Trafficking Service Providers: Literature Review
This literature review report was developed by RTI through FNUSA’s Standards of Care for Anti-Human
Trafficking Service Providers Project. It provides an analysis of the existing literature on Standards of
Care in the anti-trafficking field.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Reports
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Standards of Care
Standards of Care for Anti-Human Trafficking Service Providers: Criteria for Development
This criteria document was developed by RTI through FNUSA’s Standards of Care for Anti-Human
Trafficking Service Providers Project. It establishes a four-part criterion for creating and developing
standards of care under this project.
Levels: Introductory
Material Types: Reports Tools
Types of Trafficking: Labor Trafficking Sex Trafficking
Keywords: Standards of Care
Standards of Care for Anti-Human Trafficking Service Providers: Criteria Checklist
This checklist document was developed by RTI through FNUSA’s Standards of Care for Anti-Human Trafficking Service Providers Project. It provides a concise form to ensure that all the components of the
criteria for developing a standard of care have been met.
