About Us | Aim
To advance the health response to human trafficking and exploitation.
Objectives
To connect, equip and mobilise everyone invested in human trafficking and exploitation prevention, intervention and aftercare, promoting excellence through a whole-person health and public health-informed approach across all areas.
Connect
Connecting individuals and organisations
Equip
A platform where individuals are equipped through sharing information, skills and resources
Mobilise
Mobilise individuals and whole workforces in their response to human trafficking and exploitation
Guiding principles,
VITA Network:
Understands “health” in line with the WHO definition – “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
Takes a public health approach to identifying and preventing human trafficking and exploitation through partnership working across all sectors, developing and sharing evidence-based policy and practice and providing system leadership.
Believes all individuals vulnerable to, experiencing or survivors of human trafficking and exploitation deserve equal access to all preventative, health and support services available, regardless of race/ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexuality, immigration-status or ability to pay.
Recognises the diversity of risk factors, vulnerabilities, experiences and needs of victims and that a survivor’s identity is not defined by their exploitation.
Promotes a culture of health and wellbeing for all those working in the counter-trafficking field.
Encourages and welcomes a diversity and breadth of voices in the sector both nationally and internationally. The Network seeks to work across different services and specialisations; within academia, clinical practice, public health and the media; and in conjunction with survivor networks.