Leadership and Empowerment Training

Concurrent with our direct social and legal services, BTCC clients participate in a leadership and empowerment training program that feeds the needs of our client community while building upon their skills and assets in order to promote self-esteem, friendship, individual voice and community engagement.  Our curriculum has three phases that our clients complete over the course of 12 months:   

Step 1- PROMISE Central is BTCC's client weekly community meeting through which survivors of trafficking and migrant worker exploitation establish healthy friendships, participate in group therapy, recieve life-skills and wellness education, and create the community from which to discuss and address the concerns that affect their lives.  All new clients must attend this portion of the program to get direct service assistance.  Meetings are weekly, last roughly 16 weeks and are facilitated by BTCC's Community Development Coordinator, Social Worker, and topic-related volunteers.

Step 2- our Migrant Voice Training builds on survivors’ diverse perspectives via their first-hand experience and acculturated competency-tools (their indigenous cultural, political and spiritual language). Clients explore their trials and tribulations as migrant women through discussing topics such as:  violence (female circumcision, domestic violence, and rape), education, motherhood, gender roles, modern micro-finance/community development brainstorming, and socio-political country case-study comparisons. Through this section of the program, participants face the impasses to personal and community development, practice speaking about the issues that affect them and start to develop solutions and an effective strategy for implementing change in their native adoptive communities. Meetings are bi-weekly, last roughly 16 weeks and are facilitated by BTCC’s Community Development Coordinator, social worker and topic-related volunteers.

Step 3- Community Engagement Training will prepare survivors interested in community involvement to be confident and composed educators and contributors; able to reflect on their experiences and make recommendations based upon their insights into the issues that affect migrant women workers for BTCC national and international outreach and training, media, and advocacy work. The training, covers public speaking, current BTCC advocacy efforts, the legislative process and education about the organizations that deal with issues that affect migrant women. Meetings are bi-weekly, last roughly 12 weeks and are facilitated by BTCC’s Community Development Coordinator, IPS Advocacy Fellow and topic-related volunteers.