Recognizing and Responding to Child Trafficking: A Training for Child-Serving Professionals
Event Date: June 26, 2024
Event Time: 08:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Type: Live In-person
Total CE Credits: 3.5
General Admission: $0 CE Cost: $0
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Description
Workshop Synopsis
An overview of emerging trends in child trafficking, including sex, forced labor and on-line exploitation including the complex range of factors that make children more susceptible. Working with the foreign-born community and English learners along with strategies and tools to prevent and respond to child trafficking in all forms will be provided. The role of child-serving professionals and agencies in creating and participating in comprehensive, coordinated, equity-based, trauma-informed response to children at risk and those who are survivors of trafficking will be discussed.
Offered by the Child Trafficking Solutions Project and Cramer Children's Center
Speaker & Bio
MDT Training Team
Itinerary
Learning Goals:
To educate participants related to the issue of child trafficking, including internet safety, emerging trends and threats to children and teens.
To equip participants with prevention steps, talking points, strategies to educate clients, parents, children and teens about risks, warning signs.
To provide participants with tools, resources and guidance on how to respond when incidents and threats occur.
Participants will be able to:
Define commercially sexually exploited children and labor trafficking of minors.
Identify the following:
- Basic elements and legal issues related to child sex and labor trafficking;
- Interpret acronyms of commonly used terms and agencies/initiatives involved in combating human trafficking;
- Identify common physical and behavioral indicators of child trafficking as well as risk and warning signs.
Describe how societal factors including social media and on-line predators contribute to demand for commercial exploitation of minors.
Identify tools that can be utilized in the identification of potential victims of trafficking as well as how to respond in relationship to child protective services, law enforcement, juvenile justice, and multiple jurisdictions.
