Building Survivor Informed Programs

Join a conversation with Lara Powers, the Survivor Engagement Advisor at Polaris on guiding principles to meaninfully engage individuals with lived experience to strengthen anti-trafficking efforts. Participants will explore common barriers which limit opportunity for survivors, offering solutions and promising practices for moving beyond the “do no harm” standard” toward engagement practices and radical solidarity with survivors in anti-trafficking work.

This webinar will be followed by a panel of leaders throughout California whose lived experience and expertise inform local efforts.

Objectives:
Learn guiding principles to meaningfully engage individuals with lived experience to strengthen local anti-trafficking efforts.
Identify key tools and barriers to implementing a survivor informed approach.
Explore resources to support survivor leaders in an organization, agency or program.
Hear from a diverse panel of experts partnering with child welfare programs/MDT partners across California.