Are you being groomed or trafficked
Have you read about what human trafficking is and wonder if you're being groomed or exploited for labour, sex, or other reasons? Realizing this can be scary. You may feel alone, confused, or trapped. You may be worried about your own safety, or that of your loved ones.
Need help?
If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, get help now.
यदि आप या आपका कोई परिचित मानव तस्करी का शिकार है, तो अभी सहायता प्राप्त करें। (Hindi)
ਜੇਕਰ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਜਾਂ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੋਈ ਜਾਣਕਾਰ ਮਨੁੱਖੀ ਤਸਕਰੀ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ ਹੈ, ਤਾਂ ਹੁਣੇ ਮਦਦ ਲਓ। (Punjabi)
Якщо ви або хтось, кого ви знаєте, став жертвою торгівлі людьми, зверніться за допомогою зараз. Доступно лише англійською мовою (Ukrainian)
Si usted o alguien que conoce es víctima de la trata de personas, busca ayuda ahora. (Spanish)
إذا كنت أنت أو أي شخص تعرفه من ضحايا الاتجار بالجنس أو الاتجار بالعمال أو من الناجين من أي منهما، احصل على المساعدة الآن. متوفر باللغة الإنجليزية فقط. (Arabic)
How to get help safely
Are you in immediate danger
Call 911 and report the danger right away.
Never confront the trafficker directly—you could put yourself at risk.
Can you safely use a phone or go online
If yes, call the Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-833-900-1010 for support or call your local police. You can also reach the hotline by online chat or submit a tip through this online form. Hotline staff will tell you what to do to stay safe while you get help. The hotline is:
- Confidential
- Open 24/7, 365 days a year
- Offered in over 200 languages
- Available to the deaf, hard-of-hearing, and non-verbal
Can't use a phone or go online
If possible, quietly speak to or pass a note to anyone you can trust. Ask them to contact 911 or the Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline for you. Hotline staff will suggest ways to reach you without putting you in danger.
Hear from Survivors about how they escaped
For many reasons, exiting trafficking can be very difficult. Hear testimonies from those who have survived sex trafficking situations, have safely exited, and are now sharing their lived experiences to help keep Canadians safe.
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Transcript
The following video contains topics that may be distressing to some audiences including sexual exploitation, drug use, and violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
The following video contains testimonies from Survivors of sex trafficking and their family members.
They've shared their experiences to help Canadians understand the problem of human trafficking in this country.
How can Survivors exit sex trafficking?
Raine
What I want to say for those currently entrenched, no matter what's going on, you're sacred. You are loved.
And it's going to be hard.
But don't give up. There is a life on the other side of being human trafficked. A beautiful life.
I have a voice now, and I have power over my body. I have a say in who gets to get close to me. And I deserve respect.
So it was a Saturday. And I got a text from my dad being like, hey, do you want to come over for dinner? And I was like yeah, like, that would be great.
So I went over for dinner and at the end, the tone, like-- the whole room.
It's as if someone, like,
zapped all the energy out of it. It went completely, like, stagnant.
Augusta
And my dad looked at me from across the table and he said, I got a weird text today. And I immediately started crying because I knew they texted my eldest sister, the same thing that they texted my mom and dad. Saying, this is his Instagram. He's pimping her out. Like, are you aware that this is happening?
So I literally called the hotline and then we literally started speaking same day.
I had three weeks back at my parents' house,
and then I think it was like three days later, I went into treatment.
It was a home for women who had survived human trafficking.
You're addicted to this relationship.
That's what they count on.
Mallory
When I exited from my trafficker, I was almost 20 years old. It was actually somebody who was involved in the trafficking of me, who spoke up on why this all came to light.
Like, without that person saying something,
I would have been dead by now. I would have been dead by now. Because I didn't even know that what I had experienced was human trafficking.
And that's something I often asked myself, was, why didn't I ever tell anybody? Or why didn't I ask for help? Or why didn't I leave with one of them?
And it was out of fear. It was fear of my trafficker, fear of the connections that he had and the people he knew. Fear of the abuse from him. Fear for my life. Fear for my family's life. Fear for the safety of my child at the time.
This is one of the most horrific crimes that can be committed towards a person. And to know what resilience it takes
to fight back on your own, that's not what most people have in them.
Like, it takes such strength to try to come out of this fire. It's impossible to do this alone.
I proved my resilience to myself, that's for sure.
And I feel like the healing never stops.
In accessing services, no one ever asked me about human trafficking.
Charlie
And in fact, for a long time, I didn't even realize that's what had happened to me. When I had a practitioner kind of put the pieces together and understand me as a whole, it made a world of a difference in the care I was receiving. To be able to walk with people and services who deal with human trafficking has been life changing for me, because I was able to take that part of my life out of the shadow and bring it into the light so that I could heal.
And it's not a perfect journey.
I don't think we're ever really done our healing journey. It's continuous. It's layered. I first had to get sober, and then I had to take a look at relationships and boundaries and the dynamics of growing up in a home with addictions present. And like, it's a continuous thing that you have to do
and look at, and heal. We have a responsibility to be mindful of how we work with people who are
Survivors of human trafficking, to be mindful of like, what is your family doing? Are you openly having a conversation with your kids about consent and safety around that?
If you or someone you know may be a victim or survivor of sex trafficking, call the Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-833-900-1010
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