Building Collaboration to Combat Human Trafficking in the City of Toronto

The Roundtables series carried out over several months to facilitate the dialogue between multisector stakeholders to address the issue of human trafficking in the City of Toronto. The series will begin with an extended roundtable conference that will bring together multi‐sector stakeholders to initiate dialogue and begin to develop protocols and promising practices to offer services and protection tailored to the needs of trafficked persons. The initial roundtable will be followed by two subsequent meetings, to work through longer‐term goals, new developments and unforeseen challenges.

Objectives

• Establish and foster relations between multi‐sector stakeholders;

• Develop model for response and collect promising practices in delivering services and

  protection to trafficked persons corresponding to the particularities of Toronto area;

• Initiate policy development on city and provincial level.

Roundtable One (28 and 29 October 2013)

Day one

Series of panel presentations by multi‐sector stakeholders who dedicate their work to counter human trafficking followed by a discussion.

Day two

Working group discussions to initiate a dialogue on policy development and set the stage for the following meetings to work through longer‐term goals, new developments and unforeseen challenges.

The event is funded by the City of Toronto