Unveiling the Long-Term Challenges: Disabilities and Post-Human Trafficking Survival - A Survivor Perspective

Millions of individuals are affected by human trafficking globally, and many of them experience long-term psychological and physiological health issues that remain largely unaddressed. This case study provides a brief overview of the most common long-term health challenges survivors of human trafficking face and the barriers they experience as they try to access services through the unique lens of a survivor. The importance of a healing-centered approach is introduced as a much-needed extension to the more widely used yet still underutilized trauma-informed processes in survivor care. Finally, the case study provides suggestions for future directions to understand and respond to the long-term health care and mental health needs of survivors after their trafficking experience.