Sanar Institute's Human Trafficking Healing and Resiliency Program (HT-HARP)

The Sanar Institute will provide long-term, evidence-based, trauma- specific behavioral health services for victims of all forms of human trafficking in Northern New Jersey, with a focus on historically underserved and marginalized communities, particularly the Spanish speaking Latinx community. The Human Trafficking Healing and Resiliency Program (HT-HARP) will offer evidence-based, trauma-specific, psychotherapy modalities and wellness services guided by Sanar’s Tri-Phasic Healing Model that increase victim safety, independence, self-sufficiency, and well-being. The outcomes from HT-HARP include decreasing trafficking survivors’ vulnerabilities and needs for ongoing crisis support, decreasing the negative impacts of trauma on their lives, and increasing protective factors, resilience, and quality of life. Services will be available for survivors of all forms of trafficking with a focus on underserved populations including labor trafficking survivors, immigrants, refugees, unaccompanied minors, cultural, racial, and ethnic minorities, individuals from local communities impacted by poverty and crime, and 2SLGBTQ+ individuals. The goals of the project are: 1) strengthen access to long-term, trauma-specific behavioral health services that will decrease trafficking survivors’ vulnerabilities, reduce needs for ongoing crisis support, decrease the negative impacts of trauma on their lives, and increase protective factors, resilience and quality of life; 2) expand the quantity and quality of individualized, trauma-specific behavioral health & collaborative service linkages that mitigate vulnerabilities to re-trafficking and exploitation; 3) expand trauma-conscious and person-centered practices within local and regional organizations serving survivors of all forms of human trafficking that increase safety, independence, self-sufficiency, and wellbeing; 4) expand trauma-informed services through trauma and resilience psychoeducation curriculum that increases the safety, independence, self-sufficiency, and wellbeing of survivors of all forms of human trafficking; and 5) ensure the Human Trafficking Healing and Resiliency Program meets its goals, objectives, and grant management requirements.