PURPOSE: Reclaiming Our Stories is a project that seeks to center the voices of those most impacted by sex trafficking. We will lean into the tradition of our ancestors as storytellers to shift narratives and shape policy and public conversations about domestic, sexual violence, and sex-trafficking. The stories of survivors will be used to support resilience, transcend survival, and support healing justice.

Participants will engage in a one-day, 3 hour focus group to have safe conversations directly with other survivors and a licensed trauma-informed provider who will inform our long-term policy advocacy. We will support survivors with care, dignity, and confidentiality as they spend time and share their expertise. The goal is to support their ongoing healing while also developing policy prioritizes that are reflective of survivors’ lived experiences and needs. CSVANW will create a trauma-informed session to gather information and input from the survivors to inform real policy advocacy changes needed on the tribal, state, and federal levels.