Modern Slavery Lived Experience Engagement and Empowerment

Foundational guidance is available in Modern Slavery Lived Experience Engagement and Empowerment: Values, principles and practical guidance to support trauma-informed engagement and empowerment in Australia.

This document is designed to help organisations seeking to engage with and empower people with lived experienced of modern slavery in Australia. It contains values, principles and practical guidance to help them do this in ways that are:

• safe
• ethical
• trauma-informed.

People with lived experience play an important role in shaping Australia’s response to modern slavery. For that reason, the guidance document has been informed and refined through engagements with:

• people with lived experience
• government agencies
• civil society organisations
• academia.