Status of Women committee  Go ahead, Bonnie.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. As a starting point, and with the things Bonnie has spoken about in terms of the needs of her client base, it's just addressing the basic vulnerability on a systemic level of women, full stop, whether they have ABI, whether they're coming from homelessness, or whethe

Status of Women committee  Our self-care and our recognition of vicarious trauma is at the forefront of all the work we do. I support my front-line advocates, and we debrief on a daily basis. We talk very openly about the circumstances and the situations we hear, and we acknowledge how vicarious trauma ent

Status of Women committee  We have just five to seven minutes.... You just need to look to the south and look at the activities of recent events down there, at the language that was allowed to happen, at all the conversations that ensued around the candidates and their gender, and then the fact that ther

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. For the the Rogers Home, we have funding specific to that, and we are looking at a variety of different things. We're looking at, at the beginning of their stay, where they see themselves in terms of engagement with the staff. What are their post-traumatic stress symp

Status of Women committee  That's a very interesting question. We're noticing over the past two years that our primary transient population is no longer so, in fact so much so that we're having conversations about the use of the word “crisis” in our name. We're finding that a lot of young people are less t

Status of Women committee  Outside of their specific needs that they identified, like what floor they sleep on and what bathrooms they use, we have done renovations on some of our spaces. We have done changes to our policy to absolutely embrace and include. My initial response is that in every way we work

Status of Women committee  I made the statement earlier about the whole foundation of gender inequality and opportunity equity across the world. I think the pornography industry and the demand for all these things play a massive role in trafficking. The things that Bonnie was talking about, that make our y

Status of Women committee  We have specific funders for specific areas of research, and they are private funders. The Gooder Foundation provides money for some of our research as well as the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Trillium Foundation. The overall commitment to research and development comes

Status of Women committee  I apologize that I don't have the exact numbers of young people within that survey who report being forced from their homes as a result of domestic violence. I can tell you anecdotally that on any given night in our shelter, out of the 94 young people, I would hazard a guess that

Status of Women committee  What also happens is just the mere vulnerability of having them engaged and living in shelter environments continues to perpetuate that domestic violence, or makes them prey and vulnerable to the people who circle. As you know, because you live in the neighbourhood, the people wh

Status of Women committee  [Inaudible--Editor] numbers of women. It's important to remember that these women are also survivors and also victims. The traffickers themselves are becoming much more astute and clever in their attempts to evade detection. They're recognizing that it's often in their best inter

Status of Women committee  I can tell you that I was recently at a presentation with Toronto's human trafficking enforcement team, and they have a lot of really good stats. When we began back in 2013, there was one conviction. Please don't quote me—I can provide this for you—I think there are six convictio

Status of Women committee  First, I'll address the fact that it is a misunderstood myth that it is an overseas issue that happens in Thailand and places of that sort. Certainly that doesn't negate the fact that it does occur in those places, but I believe 90% of the cases that we see at Covenant House Toro

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I'm honoured to be here this afternoon and to have this opportunity to address the Standing Committee on the Status of Women on behalf of Covenant House Toronto. My name is Julie Neubauer, and I am the manager of human trafficking services with the agency.