In 2005, after 42 years of secrecy and silence, founder Cynthia Bland discloses that she was sexually abused and commercially exploited as a child. In 2011 Voice Found becomes a federally incorporated non-profit. 2011-2015 there are 25 active volunteer facilitators training from coast to coast to coast. 5,000 people are trained on how to recognize, react and respond to childhood sexual abuse. in 2016 "The Hope Found Project" began. 2015-2020 206 survivors of human trafficking supported through this project. August 202, official launch of Strength Found, a program to help adult survivors of child sex abuse. Child sex abuse and sex trafficking are devastating to experience, painful to recall, and hard for anyone to think about. But we need to go beyond thinking about it. We need to talk about it, face it, stop it, and help every survivor live the best possible life.

This is Voice Found?s mission. So let?s start talking.
What you need to know about the issue

Damages all aspects of a person?s life and can lead to problems like depression, substance abuse, crime, and suicide

90% of trafficked youth were sexually abused as a child.

Costs the healthcare, public safety, and judicial systems millions every year.

1 trafficking victim needs 20X the care of a domestic violence victim.

Happens more often than people think: 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys have suffered sex abuse of some kind.

Sexual exploitation crosses all social and economic boundaries.
Voice Found works to create safe communities that recognize and stop abuse. We support survivors in their journey to overcome what has been done to them without their consent, and to move on to healthy lives. Through our programs, we:

Prevent abuse:

Voice Found delivers education across Canada to help people identify risk, respond, and stop child sex abuse and trafficking before it happens.

Support survivors:

Through our programs we provide front line support and healthcare services for those who have been trafficked and for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation.

Grow skills and leadership:

We provide survivors with a safe space to grow, where unique strengths are recognized and leadership is encouraged.
Our approach is guided by compassion, lived-experience, courage, honesty and strength. It is:

Survivor-led:

We empower survivors to lead their own healing journey and recognize that they are more than what happened to them. We facilitate growth in all areas of their lives.

Client-centred:

The needs of our clients come first with services provided in a considerate, non judgmental manner. We seek to minimize re-traumatization and further exploitation by focusing on their needs .

Partner-enhanced:

We work together with service providers across Canada to fill service and funding gaps so we can all help more clients in need.