French to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

I'm translating a report from a French non-profit on various program activities targeting drug users, and am stuck on "libération de la parole".

The term has actually been in the news a lot with the #metoo and #balancetonporc movement, with the idea that people are finally speaking out about sexual harassment and assault. So I get that it's about people who previously felt silenced feeling free to speak/speak out (Time magazine referred to them as the "silence breakers"). Later in the same document, they talk about having success establishing trust with drug users so they would open up to them, since they are usually fairly isolated and often quite secretive (in part given that they're involved in an illegal activity). But I can't figure out how to render it in this list:

"Nous avons créé ce programme, en réponse à des besoins des publics cibles sur des sujets très différents et complexes : réduction des risques à l’usage de produits, amélioration de la santé globale, démarche innovante de réduction des risques sexuels comportementale et bio-médicalisée, *libération de la parole*, écoute, amélioration de la prise en charge médico-psychologique, amélioration et facilitation de la prise en charge en addictologie, bonnes pratiques à l’injection..."

I found a few ghits for "freeing speech" or "liberating speech", but those don't sound that great to me. Was thinking of combining that somehow with "écoute", which is also a pain to translate, but haven't worked out how yet.

Any great ideas?

US English ok.

Thanks!