Niagara College

Employees are invited to a virtual awareness training from the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking, hosted by the Student Rights & Responsibilities Office.

The training from 1 to 2:30 p.m. will cover the important topics of national trends, what trafficking looks like across the country, and supports available for people experiencing it. They will also share about our national human trafficking hotline and people can access it for support. There will be an opportunity to discuss best methods to approach students you may be concerned about, and a general Q&A.

Register.

About Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is the exploitation of a person for the profit and material gain of others. It can take many forms. It might involve someone being pressured or forced to sell sex, with the trafficker taking the money. In the case of labour trafficking, people might be forced to work long hours without pay and controlled through threats, violence or lies.

As a Canada-USA border region, Niagara is an epicenter for human trafficking. Traffickers control their victims in various ways such as taking away their identity documents and passports, sexual abuse, threats, intimidation, physical violence, and isolation.

In 2023, a Statistics Canada report found that the rate of police-reported human trafficking incidents in the Niagara region were more than twice the national rate.

In December 2025, the Niagara regional police identified a 700 percent increase in human trafficking victims from 2023.