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Responding to Sexual Exploitation: Tracia's Trust

 

Manitoba Sexual Exploitation Strategy- Phases and Timelines
Previous Partnerships and Programming

 

La stratégie manitobaine de lutte contre l'exploitation sexuelle a été élaborée pour :
  • appuyer le bon travail effectué actuellement par les groupes communautaires déjà actifs dans le domaine de l'exploitation sexuelle,
  • combler les lacunes de services relevées part les intervenants communautaires, 
  • réagir aux recherches acuelles dans le domaine, 
  • intervenir auprès des contrevenants.

Le rapport intitulé <<Les travailleurs de première ligne : des manitobainstravaillant ensemble pour mettre fin à l'exploitation sexuelle des enfants >> a été rédigé à la suite du Sommet des travaiileurs de première ligne, qui a eu lieu en mars 2008. Ce document énonce les thèmes suivants qui ont permis de cerner les questions et d'élaborer des initiatives:

  • Dispositions legislatives et application de la loi, 
  • Continuum de services,
  • Rompre le silence,  
  • Habilitation des enfants, des jenes, des familles et des collectivités 

 

Manitoba’s Sexual Exploitation Strategy - Phases and Timelines

The Manitoba Strategy Responding to Children and Youth at Risk of, or Survivors of, Sexual Exploitation was launched in December 2002 as directed by the Manitoba Government’s Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet.

Tracia’s Trust, phase two of the Manitoba Strategy was launched December 10, 2008. Emphasis is placed on the need to build upon phase one by:

  • implementing more prevention initiatives,
  • developing a fuller continuum of services for victims,
  • increasing public awareness, and
  • making offenders more accountable.

While the first phase of the strategy focused on children exploited through prostitution, phase two of the Strategy encompassed the coordination of services for all ages (children, youth and adults), and considered all forms of sexual exploitation, including prostitution, pornography, sex trafficking, sex tourism and internet luring.

For a timeline on how Tracia's Trust came to be, click on the links below:


 

   

Previous Partnerships & Programming

The groups listed in this section represent partnerships and programs within the first three phases of Tracia’s Trust.

 

At Our Relatives’ Place (en anglais)

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L’approche globale At Our Relatives’ Place est culturellement en harmonie avec l’éducation des enfants. Le programme de foyer d’accueil est une adaptation des pratiques traditionnelles autochtones en matière de protection des enfants où les grands‑parents, les tantes et les oncles, les sœurs et les frères, et les membres de toute la communauté jouent le rôle de fournisseurs de soins pour les enfants et les jeunes. Le programme est expressément conçu pour répondre aux besoins des enfants et des jeunes Autochtones (neuf à dix‑sept ans) qui sont victimes d’exploitation sexuelle. Le programme cherche à créer un modèle d’intervention, de prévention et de stabilisation des jeunes en leur offrant des environnements culturellement accueillants en milieu rural et urbain. L’approche At Our Relatives’ Place reconnaît l’importance des racines culturelles, de la famille et de la communauté d’origine des enfants et des jeunes, ainsi que le rôle des personnes importantes recensées par les enfants.
 
Les programmes offerts dans le cadre de l’approche At Our Relatives’ Place comprennent ce qui suit :
  • 10 places spécialisées en foyer d’accueil pour des enfants et des jeunes victimes d’exploitation sexuelle;
  • trois places en foyer d’accueil d’urgence pour les jeunes victimes d’exploitation sexuelle;
  • un foyer d’accueil spécialisé de quatre places (Ka Mi Mina) pour aider des jeunes filles et des jeunes femmes victimes d’exploitation sexuelle qui sont trop âgées pour être pris en charge par les services à l’enfant et à la famille.

Les équipes régionales de ressources - ancienne :

  • la coalition communautaire des jeunes exploités sexuellement de Winnipeg – Winnipeg (Manitoba)
  • la région du Nord – Le Pas (Manitoba)

 

Campagne de sensibilisation STOPPEZ LA PROSTITUTION JUVÉNILE

Campagne STOPPEZ LA PROSTITUTION JUVÉNILE poster
La campagne STOPPEZ LA PROSTITUTION JUVÉNILE fait partie de la Stratégie manitobaine de lutte contre l’exploitation sexuelle des enfants; elle vise à sensibiliser la population à la réalité des enfants exploités par le commerce du sexe. Les phases I et II de la campagne ont été lancées en 2006 et en 2008. La phase III, lancée le 28 avril 2010, appelle les adultes à agir et à fournir leur part d’efforts pour protéger les enfants. Passons le message : Pas touche aux enfants!.  

 

Mandatory Reporting – Cybertip.ca

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On April 15, 2009, mandatory reporting of child pornography was proclaimed in Manitoba. Manitoba became the first Canadian province to make it mandatory for all citizens to report child pornography. The Child and Family Services Act was amended to include child pornography in the definition of child abuse. Under the new law, if a Manitoban sees something they believe to be child pornography; they are required to report it to Cybertip.ca. The goal of mandatory reporting is to facilitate the reporting of children in need of protection. All reports relating to a child victim and/or suspect in Manitoba are forwarded to child and family services and Manitoba law enforcement so they can coordinate investigations into the allegation and ensure children are protected from abuse. Please click here for complete information.

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has run several public awareness campaigns on this issue.

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has also released a report that gauges the effectiveness of Manitoba’s mandatory reporting of child pornography legislation, which was enacted in April 2009. The report, titled Mandatory Reporting of Child Pornography in Manitoba: 2009-2010 Annual Review, analyzes the first-year impact of the legislation.

 

 

Manitoba Integrated Task Force for Missing and Murdered Women

The province, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) formally established a task force in August 2009 to review cases involving missing and murdered women. It was announced that the unit’s focus would be:

  • the review of unsolved homicide files involving women victims:
  • the review of missing person files involving women victims where foul play is suspected;
  • the analysis of the file review data to determine what, if any, linkages exist between occurrences; and
  • the determination of appropriate avenues for follow up investigation(s).

The Province of Manitoba is lending support to this task.

 

 

StreetReach North

Both StreetReach Winnipeg and StreetReach North were modelled after the High-Risk Victims (HRV) Unit that was established in Dallas, Texas by the Dallas Police Service. Sergeant Byron Fassett, manager of the Dallas Police Service's HRV Unit, provided two days of training in Winnipeg in February 2009 to 140 stakeholders, including a large contingent from law enforcement services, CFS agencies and social service organizations from locations around the province. Shortly thereafter, the Winnipeg Police Service initiated a similar response to high-risk victims in the Winnipeg area and partnered with the Child Protection Branch, CFS agencies and outreach organizations to form StreetReach Winnipeg. Members of StreetReach Winnipeg then provided the orientation and other assistance required to establish a StreetReach North, located in Thompson, Manitoba.

The StreatReach program was built upon the premise that children most frequently missing are the same children at highest risk of being sexually exploited, drug and gang involved and victims to physical and sexual assault and murder. A rapid and multi-system coordinated response helps to better identify, locate and assist these high-risk victims. With a personalized response, children that are identified as high-risk victims are served as much as possible by the same police officer, CFS worker and outreach worker each time they require service. This facilitates the development of trust-based relationships with the at risk children. Additionally, workers can respond quicker if they become familiar with the locations and habits of high-risk victims when they go missing. Another unique feature of StreetReach is the partnership that has developed with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (formerly Child Find Manitoba) and local media outlets, whereby police services have regularly been issuing media alerts when the public's assistance is needed to located missing high-risk victims.

The StreatReach program was built upon the premise that children most frequently missing are the same children at highest risk of being sexually exploited, drug and gang involved and victims to physical and sexual assault and murder. A rapid and multi-system coordinated response helps to better identify, locate and assist these high-risk victims. With a personalized response, children that are identified as high-risk victims are served as much as possible by the same police officer, CFS worker and outreach worker each time they require service. This facilitates the development of trust-based relationships with the at risk children. Additionally, workers can respond quicker if they become familiar with the locations and habits of high-risk victims when they go missing. Another unique feature of StreetReach is the partnership that has developed with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (formerly Child Find Manitoba) and local media outlets, whereby police services have regularly been issuing media alerts when the public's assistance is needed to located missing high-risk victims.

An initiative announced under Tracia’s Trust, the StreetReach North Team was formed in April 2010 to provide a coordinated and integrated effort between CFS, RCMP and youth-serving organizations in Thompson to:

  • Help prevent high-risk runaway youth from becoming exploited;
  • Help sexually exploited youth who are missing escape further exploitation;
  • Better identify the predators and the drug and prostitution houses where missing high-risk and sexually exploited youth are being harboured and exposed to exploitation.

A community consultation committee was developed to discuss community needs and the Thompson Boys and Girls Club was selected to operate the StreetReach North Program jointly with the RCMP Thompson detachment. A multi-sector advisory committee has been used to help develop the StreetReach North Team and an outreach coordinator has been hired to work in partnership with other outreach services, a designated RCMP officer, and the Sexual Exploitation Northern Regional Team in Thompson.