Justice After Exploitation: Supporting Youth Navigate the Justice System

Join Family Services of Greater Vancouver as Brenda Lochhead, a long-time Victim Support Worker and counter-exploitation expert, shares her insights into how best to support exploited youth as they navigate the justice system—whether you’re a support worker, family member, journalist, or donor. Learn about the specific issues exploited youth face and how FSGV is walking with them every step of their journeys.

Did you know that Family Services of Greater Vancouver is a national leader in providing support for victims and survivors of exploitation and human trafficking? This Zoom webinar (our second annual webinar in honour of Victims and Survivors of Crime Week) is an opportunity for you to gain insight into how we do this, whether to apply it to your own work or simply learn more about ours.

Speaker:

Meet Brenda Lochhead (she/her), a BA Criminology graduate, Victim Support Worker, and Community Educator from the Counter Exploitation Unit.

Brenda has 30 years of experience in the anti-violence sector and has worked with Family Services of Greater Vancouver as a Victim Support Worker in the Counter Exploitation Unit at VPD since 2016.  

Recipient of the 2018 Services to Victims, Community, Safety & Crime Prevention award from the BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Brenda’s expertise in the area of human trafficking is recognized internationally. She was instrumental in the development and implementation of a coordinated framework for supporting victims of human trafficking in BC.  

Brenda’s work in counter-exploitation has set a national standard for how to approach human trafficking and exploitation cases. Building trust with victims and survivors is a core tenet of her success, with outcomes that improve the quality of life for victims and increase the odds of conviction. Her model relies on deep work with victims from a truly client-centred, trauma-informed approach. It also centers the victim’s experience and provides long-term support that decreases the likelihood of future exploitation. 

Opening Land Acknowledgement and Welcome by:

Terriea Harris

A Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Best selling author & Priestess trained in Kundalini dance.

For almost 15 years, she has shared her gifts of cultivating Safe & Brave spaces for folks to embody their worthiness, be true to themselves & speak their authentic truth. She acknowledges her role as a statement gatherer with the National Inquiry into Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women & Girls as especially impactful & meaningful. Holding sacred space for the extraordinary stories of survival & the grief of family members who have lost Indigenous daughters, mothers, sisters, & Aunties to systems of oppression & who contributed their truths to the final report “Reclaiming Power & Place.” Her personal harrowing story as a survivor of child sex trafficking, including navigating the criminal justice system to stand for justice against her traffickers, is an inspiring testament to the resilience & capacity of the human spirit to transform pain into purpose!

Learn more and register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/justice-after-exploitation-supporting-youth-navigate-the-justice-system-tickets-881584060657?aff=oddtdtcreator