Each year the second week in March is Manitoba’s Annual Stop Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Week. Manitoba recognizes this issue will require ongoing awareness and a continued commitment and we believe it’s important that survivors are the drivers and experts on this issue. By proclaiming the Stop Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Week, Manitobans can work together locally, nationally and internationally to address the global issue. As a survivor of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking, Alaya McIvor be sharing her personal story on this issue.

There is little discussion about the violence perpetrated against individuals who identify as Two-Spirit or Native LGBTQ in our tribal communities. This prevents our Two-Spirit/Native LGBTQ community from coming forward to discuss the violence they have experienced, which makes identifying solutions and healing opportunities impossible. Please join us in this powerful conversation to understand and help break the silence about violence within the Two-Spirit and Native LGBTQ community.

While there are plenty of conversations around unhealthy relationships in Indigenous communities, we rarely talk about positive examples. What is a Healthy Native Relationship? How do we communicate effectively? How do we respect one another as we walk through relationships with our significant others? How do we bring culture and spirituality into our relationships? Join SBI’s very own Lenny Hayes and panelists Monique "Muffy " Mousseau (Cunupa Mani Wi), Felipa De Leon (Tecigila Wi), Agnes Woodward, and Whirlwind Bull as we dive into what a healthy Native relationship looks like.

Learn from the first-hand expertise of a current foster parent, survivors, and service providers about the intersections of human trafficking and Native foster youth and how to protect our young relatives. This webinar is part of the SBI Survivors Leadership Council’s series of trafficking awareness events during the month of January in honor of Trafficking Awareness Month. Check out the Sovereign Bodies Institute’s website, Facebook, and YouTube pages for all of the events.

Survivor Leader Cari Herthel (Esselen/Rumsen Ohlone) discusses self-care and the importance of being resilient. This webinar is part of the SBI Survivors Leadership Council’s series of trafficking awareness events during the month of January in honor of Trafficking Awareness Month. Check out the Sovereign Bodies Institute’s website, Facebook, and YouTube pages for all of the events.

Survivor leadership is essential in building a strong anti-trafficking movement, join to hear from members of SBI’s Survivor Leadership Council on why it’s so important and how we can support survivors in healthy ways. This webinar is part of the SBI Survivors Leadership Council’s series of trafficking awareness events during the month of January in honor of Trafficking Awareness Month. Check out the Sovereign Bodies Institute’s website, Facebook, and YouTube pages for all of the events.

Join in to hear Jessica’s trafficking story. Jessica will be sharing on how social media is used as a grooming tool by traffickers, based on her own experience, and how to protect Indigenous people from traffickers on platforms like Facebook and TikTok. This webinar is part of the SBI Survivors Leadership Council’s series of trafficking awareness events during the month of January in honor of Trafficking Awareness Month. Check out the Sovereign Bodies Institute’s website, Facebook, and YouTube pages for all of the events.

Chelsea Hendrickson shares her experiences and how she overcame being groomed and sex trafficked. Chelsea will also share how she uses poetry and storytelling to heal in the work she does in the urban native community in Seattle. Chelsea works full time for a tribal domestic violence sexual assault program and is also a youth advocate at Labateyah youth home. This webinar is part of the SBI Survivors Leadership Council’s series of trafficking awareness events during the month of January in honor of Trafficking Awareness Month. Check out the Sovereign Bodies Institute’s website, Facebook, and YouTube pages for all of the events.

Join service providers and advocates Annita Lucchesi, Waynette Renville, Lisa Heth, and Melissa Shouting for a discussion on how organizations and professionals can better serve Indigenous trafficking survivors to ensure they are fully supported and taken care of. This webinar is part of the SBI Survivors Leadership Council’s series of trafficking awareness events during the month of January in honor of Trafficking Awareness Month. Check out the Sovereign Bodies Institute’s website, Facebook, and YouTube pages for all of the events.