Communities of color and aspiring allies need time to breathe, relax, re-orient themselves with their authentic self, tend to legacies of harm and untreated trauma as well as connect to lineages of resilience. This interactive virtual workshop is designed to provide a community of support. Participants will be given practices to de-stress and reconnect to their strength, creativity, and spirit. Join Zoe Flowers and Maria del Rosario Franco-Rahman to learn more about the natural responses to and effects of stress,…

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The death of George Floyd has brought renewed attention to calls for reform to the justice system and to law enforcement. One of the most critical elements of any plan forward will center around building relationships between police and the communities they serve. This webinar will feature two former prosecutors who are currently on the front to improve practices and help law enforcement officers can work together with community members to prevent and respond to violence. George Mosee, Executive Director…

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NHTTAC will host a 90-minute webinar on emerging trends and case studies on the development of remote case management and telehealth to leverage community resources to provide services to individuals impacted by human trafficking during COVID-19. Learning Objectives Learn about platforms that work for providing remote case management with clients. Understand best practices in supporting clients in a trauma-informed and ethical way. Practice how to address vicarious trauma and support staff who are facing hardships in providing services.

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Building organizations’ capacity to support survivors’ needs is a significant part of the overall survivor experience. Many traditional survivor inclusion efforts suggest meaningful engagement is about inviting survivors into decision-making spaces that have not previously been available. However, without recognizing factors such as power dynamics and past trauma as potential barriers to survivor participation/engagement, and how organizations may recreate or force survivors to relive these dynamics and traumas, efforts can fall short of the desired impact. Organizations need effective tools…

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Children are sexually exploited in every part of the United States, but caregivers, service providers, and systems professionals often fail to accurately identify these vulnerable young people and connect them with valuable services. This interactive webinar will provide an overview and legal definition of domestic child sex trafficking and explore characteristics that make youth particularly vulnerable to trafficking. Participants will also hear from Tina Frundt, the Founder and Executive Director of Courtney’s House, the only survivor-led organization serving youth trafficking…

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The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a lot of questions about protecting survivors’ personal information. One of those questions is how to protect program participants’ confidentiality if a health department doing contact tracing related to COVID-19 asks for program participants’ personally identifying information. This webinar will help you think through how to answer questions about this and will introduce VRLC’s FAQs on protecting confidentiality with contact tracing.

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In response to the growing need to offer virtual training to support professional development, the Office on Trafficking in Persons and the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center are pleased to offer a free 1.5-hour virtual SOAR to Health and Wellness training. The training teaches providers how to identify and respond to human trafficking. After this training, you will be able to: Describe the types of human trafficking and potential risk factors Identify individual and environmental indicators of…

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