Our Purpose
Voice Found exists to ensure that people impacted by human trafficking, exploitation, and childhood sexual abuse have access to the support, healthcare, knowledge, and opportunities they need to heal, rebuild their lives, and thrive.
Rooted in lived experience, we work alongside survivors while helping communities and organizations create safer, more effective responses that prevent exploitation and promote long-term recovery.
Vision
A future free from human trafficking, child sexual abuse, and exploitation where every survivor is heard, supported, and empowered to build the life they choose.
Promise
We walk alongside survivors.
Whether someone is seeking safety, rebuilding after exploitation, navigating the justice system, improving their health, reconnecting with community, or becoming a leader themselves, our commitment is to provide ethical, trauma-informed support that evolves with their journey.
Mission
Voice Found is a survivor-led Canadian charity that prevents exploitation, supports recovery, and strengthens systems of care through trauma-informed services, healthcare, education, survivor leadership, and community collaboration.
Philosophy
Everything we do is guided by a simple belief:
Recovery doesn't end when exploitation ends.
Healing takes time.
Recovery is not linear.
People deserve support that recognizes their strengths, respects their choices, and adapts as their needs change.
We believe survivors are experts in their own lives and that lived experience, when ethically supported, strengthens individuals, organizations, and communities.
What you need to know about the issue
Damages all aspects of a person’s life and can lead to problems like depression, substance abuse, crime, and suicide
90% of trafficked youth were sexually abused as a child.
Costs the healthcare, public safety, and judicial systems millions every year.
1 trafficking victim needs 20X the care of a domestic violence victim.
Happens more often than people think: 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys have suffered sex abuse of some kind.
Sexual exploitation crosses all social and economic boundaries.
Through our work, we:
Prevent abuse
Reducing vulnerability before exploitation occurs.
Through education, awareness, youth engagement, professional training, and community partnerships, we help people recognize risk, respond earlier, and build safer communities..
Support survivors
Supporting healing beyond immediate safety.
We provide trauma-informed healthcare, peer support, case management, court support, recovery programming, employment pathways, and practical assistance that evolves with each survivor's journey.
Recovery is individualized. Our support reflects that.
Grow skills and leadership
Creating opportunities for survivors to lead change.
We believe lived experience belongs not only in conversations about human trafficking but also in leadership, education, research, healthcare, and organizational decision-making.
Through Ethical Peer Support, workforce development, mentorship, and consulting, we help build ethical pathways into leadership.