2025 Annual Report: A Year of Strengthening Systems and Building for the Future

2025 Annual Report: Healing Systems, Healing Futures

We're proud to share HEAL Trafficking's 2025 Annual Report, a reflection of how our collective work is helping build the systems that make survivor-centered healthcare possible — across the United States and around the world.

In 2025, HEAL focused on strengthening the infrastructure, training pathways, and partnerships that enable healthcare systems to deliver survivor-centered care at scale. Despite a challenging funding landscape, our team leaned into our mission — expanding access to education, refreshing core clinical tools, and deepening the relationships that sustain this work long-term.

In her opening letter, CEO Dr. Amanda Stylianou shares:

"Rather than slowing our work, we chose to lean into our mission and invest strategically in the infrastructure that supports long-term impact."

This year's Annual Report reflects a year of building — not just delivering programs, but putting in place the systems and structures that allow providers to respond with consistency, competence, and care. Highlights include:

• Training more than 3,000 professionals across virtual courses, HEAL Hour sessions, contracted trainings, and Train the Trainer programs.
• Engaging 400+ organizations, including hospitals, universities, public agencies, and international collaborators working to integrate survivor-centered practices into healthcare systems.
• Launching HEAL Hour, a free virtual education series offering ongoing learning on survivor-centered response, labor trafficking, and trauma-informed care.
• Formalizing Human Trafficking: Foundations for Recognition and Response as a recurring live virtual training, building on years of delivering Human Trafficking 101.
• Expanding labor trafficking education through a dedicated Labor Trafficking Workbook and Training Program centered on the PEARR Tool.
• Contributing to peer-reviewed research on survivor-centered healthcare protocols, labor trafficking and migrant health access, bias in training, and curriculum assessment.
• Submitting expert input to the U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report and developing compliance-focused guidance to help institutions operationalize survivor-centered standards of care.

None of this work happens in isolation. It is made possible by the dedication of our staff, board, faculty, partners, and the growing community of healthcare professionals committed to a more prepared and compassionate response to trafficking. Together, we are building a future where survivors encounter healthcare systems that are ready to meet them with dignity and care.