Resources to Support Survivors

ALIGHT offers these resources to help human trafficking survivors, and the community service providers who work with survivors, with identifying survivors’ legal issues and accessing legal services. If you are a survivor of human trafficking who needs free legal services – visit Get Help.

Tips for Survivor Self-Empowerment

Legal Needs Examples

Tips for Identifying Possible Human Trafficking Survivors

This tip sheet includes examples of trafficking methods and red flags of human trafficking.

Tips for Spotting Survivor Legal Needs

This document provides an example of how a human trafficking survivor walking through the doors of a community service provider may have multiple life challenges that are in fact legal issues – with which attorneys in the ALIGHT network can assist.

How to Connect a Survivor to Free Legal Help

This document explains the process for connecting to free legal services in Colorado through ALIGHT and what to expect when the survivor calls the ALIGHT Intake Advocate Warm Line at 720-608-6039.

Tips for Survivors Working with Attorneys

This tip sheet includes suggested questions for survivors to ask attorneys on the initial call, as well as more information about the attorney-client relationship and other resources about navigating the legal system.

ALIGHT Survivor Cards

Print out and share these cards with information on how survivors can reach the ALIGHT Intake Advocate Warm Line (720-608-6039) to request free legal services in Colorado.

Trauma Services Manuals/Toolkits

Promising Practices: An Overview of Trauma-Informed Therapeutic Support for Survivors of Human Trafficking (2015), Sanar Wellness Institute and Polaris
Exploitation, Violence, and Suicide Risk Among Child and Adolescent Survivors of Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion (2015), Ligia Kiss, PhD; Katherine Yun, MD; Nicola Pocock, MSc; Cathy Zimmerman, PhD

If you suspect human trafficking near you, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1 (888) 373-7888 or text “HELP” to 233733 (BEFREE) 24/7.

© 2024 ALIGHT. The images used on this website are stock photos and do not represent actual human trafficking survivors. The survivor stories are composites offered for illustrative purposes and represent only a portion of the realities experienced by survivors. While groups and individuals may use different terms when talking about this issue, ALIGHT tends to use "survivor" to affirm the individual's journey forward. We must all be conscious about supporting survivors on their own terms, rather than re-exploiting and re-traumatizing them through our representations and ideas of them.