Engaging and including individuals with lived experience as part of decision-making, but also program design, is just simply evidence-based best practice. How would someone without any experience of what this looks like be able to come up with a solution out of the blue? It's not how the world works.
I completely agree that we need to make sure there are survivors who are a part of every stage of the solution to human trafficking, and doing so in a way that does not just exploit them for their own lived experience and story but involves them more meaningfully as to what the solutions actually look like. We're starting to see a lot of emerging best practices in that across the country.