Hidden Voices: Modern Slavery Awareness Course

A course which will give you all the tools you need to help your community respond to modern slavery

Hidden Voices

Some people might ask what can church, and communities do about modern slavery? The truth is local people are key to solving this puzzle.

For starters they can spot the signs of modern slavery and help the police to find victims. They can prevent vulnerable people they work with, like the homeless, from being trafficked or exploited. And they can support the survivors of modern slavery and help them to overcome the trauma they have experienced.

The Hidden Voices course is designed to awaken in churches a passion for working with their communities and responding to the needs of the vulnerable and marginalised.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a four session course and in the present circumstances is being held on Zoom. You are invited to a taster session on November 11th and then subsequent dates are: 18th November, 25th November and 2nd December, 8th December. Each session will run from 7pm, aiming to finish at 8:30pm.

This Modern Slavery Awareness course is hosted by the Diocese of Liverpool and The Clewer Initiative in partnership with Liverpool Cathedral and Together Liverpool. It will be led by Clewer Initiative trainer Suzette Jones and Liverpool Anti-Trafficking Project Coordinator Jen Williams.

Hidden Voices is written in four modules:

  1. Setting the scene for action
  2. Detection
  3. Prevention
  4. Action

All the modules include biblical reflections and practical tools and activities to help churches work alongside their community.

There are also case studies that help people to see how they might already be coming across modern slavery without knowing it.

We hope that after you have completed the Hidden Voices course that you will feel inspired and ready to start a project of your own by the end. You might not have all the answers, but you will certainly know where to start. You will be supported in this by the Anti-Trafficking Project Coordinator.

Log in details and details of how to access the online course materials will be sent through email to all registered guests.

For further information please contact Jen at jen.williams@liverpool.anglican.org