Combating Child Trafficking Through Multi-Agency Partnerships
2024-10-31 12:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Online Webinar
Training Overview
The Minnesota Children’s Alliance (The Alliance), DHS/DCYF, and MDH Safe Harbor are partnering to provide a training session for Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) across Minnesota. This training will offer an in-depth review and update on the new Minnesota statutes relevant to child welfare’s mandated response to reports of exploitation and trafficking of minors, as well as their implications for CACs. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of the state-wide response to Human Trafficking and how CACs can access and collaborate with providers and resources in the Safe Harbor Network.
This training will dedicate one hour to interactive group work. Participants will collaborate in small groups with their Regional Navigator to explore how each agency can collaborate and improve its coordinated response to child trafficking and exploitation. This group discussion will allow for practical discussions on leveraging each agency’s strengths, fostering communication, and building partnerships to protect vulnerable children more effectively.
Register Here
After registering, the Alliance will email you the Zoom link one week before and the day of the training.
Continuing Education
The Alliance will be providing two social work continuing education upon completion of this training. All attendees are expected to attend the entirety of this training. If you are unable to or called away at the last minute to accommodate your client’s needs, please let MaiXi know.

Contact
If you have any further questions/concerns, please contact MaiXi Ye at maixi@minnesotachildrensalliance.org

NCJTC Child Sex Trafficking: From Suspicion to Disclosure
2024-05-07 09:00 - 16:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Learn basic techniques and strategies to enhance the likelihood of obtaining information from possible victims of child sex trafficking. Compare and contrast typical child sexual abuse cases with child sex trafficking (CST) cases and address the different points of entry into the criminal justice and welfare system for CST victims. Understand various disciplines’ roles and responsibilities and how they can contribute to a positive outcome of the CST case. Examine question strategy, interview dynamics, language use, and interview suggestions. Discuss the business model of child sex trafficking as it relates to a variety of crimes, including the use of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This training is suitable for community correction officers, law enforcement, prosecutors, social workers, tribes/tribal workers, and victim service workers.
Learning Objectives

Understand the importance of an interviewer mindset and style, and how different question strategies impact the accuracy of information gathered.
Learn/improve fundamental skills of engagement with potential CST victims to maximize positive outcomes of future contacts with other professionals
Understand the totality of the circumstances through interviews and observations and how these impact the total investigation.
Understand how a continuum of care for the CST victim maximizes positive case outcomes

Register through NCJTC

CHSSD Human Trafficking Prevention Month Training Series
2024-01-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-16 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Children’s Home Society of South Dakota (CHSSD) is presenting a statewide prevention program for any professionals who are doing trauma-informed work and works with a multi-disciplinary team. There are four-sessions held this month, please make note of dates and times below.
Did you know that upwards of 90% of human trafficking survivors report a history of child sexual abuse? Recognizing the signs of sexual abuse and grooming behaviors of offenders is vital in the protection of children from human trafficking. Participants will learn how to talk with children about sexual abuse, body safety and online safety. We then take an in-depth look on what the next steps are once a child discloses abuse. The multi-disciplinary team is a vital component of investigating cases of child abuse/maltreatment or where children were witnesses to violence. We know that it takes a team to ensure the safety of the child, provide advocacy for the non-offending caregiver, investigate the alleged crime, and bring the case to court. The justice process is complex and can be time consuming. Through the decades, since the concept of Child Advocacy Centers was introduced, we have learned that collaboration is key. The South Dakota Network of Family Violence and Sexual Assault will provide a review of stalking, including cyberstalking, with discussion of tactics, and tools used by stalkers, the prevalence of stalking and lethality/risk to victims. We will then review resources and possible support for victims of trafficking.
Series Objectives:

Understand the commonalities, differences and relationship between child sexual abuse and human trafficking
To highlight possible solutions to combat human trafficking and child sexual abuse in South Dakota
Understanding the purpose of the MDT
learning how your role fits within the child advocacy center collaborative approach
Learn to define stalking, tactics of stalkers and impacts on victims

January Sessions
Session 1: Intersection of Child Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. MT/ 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. CT
Session 2: MDT completing the Puzzle
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. MT/ 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. CT
Session 3: Day at the Capitol
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Session 4: Stalking (South Dakota Network of Family Violence and Sexual Assault)
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. MT/ 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. CT
Register Here

Identifying and Responding to Child Labor Trafficking: What is the Role of CACs?
2024-01-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
The Alliance is excited to host this training with the Minnesota Department of Human Services. This training will focus on developing an understanding of what labor trafficking of children looks like in Minnesota. This includes an overview of existing responses, services, and protocols for response. Participants will learn skills for identifying labor trafficking among other types of child abuse, and we will spend time discussing possible roles and resources for serving labor trafficking children and youth in CACs.
This training will be recorded.
Register Here
Registered attendees will receive a Zoom link 1 week and 1 day before this training event starts.
We are excited to start the new year with this training. The Alliance believes trauma-informed, anti-racist, and culturally responsive services are essential to helping children heal. We continue to offer virtually the highest quality training, with nationally renowned speakers.
Continuing Education Credits
POST and Social Work credits will be available for all eligible participants providing services in Minnesota, US.
Contact Info
Please contact MaiXi Ye at maixi@minnesotachildrensalliance.org if you have any questions or concerns.

NCJTC FIT: Dynamics of CST Victim Interviews (Part 1 & 2)
2024-01-08, 2023-12-04 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Learn the complex dynamics involved in a child sex trafficking interview. Gain an understanding of the impact of trauma bonding and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as they relate to traffickers recruiting and controlling minors. Recognize why the CST business model is important and how adolescent development plays apart in both trafficking and the interview process.
This training is best suited for community members, community corrections officers, court system personnel, educators, emergency management, law enforcement and support, prosecutors, social workers, tribes/tribal partners, and victim service providers.
Upon completion of this training, you will be able to:

Define human trafficking and explain its dynamics
Explain and analyze the differences between adolescents and adults regarding language development, memory and suggestibility
Define types and patterns of disclosure
Identify strategies for overcoming common barriers and blocks that occur within a forensic interview

Register through NCJTC
This training contains two hours of instruction.

CornerHouse Winter Webinar Week: Grooming Strategies Regarding Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Youth
2023-12-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
The act of recruiting someone into trafficking is intentional, planned and criminal. Learn tactics and techniques used by traffickers including targeting, recruiting and the grooming process. Understanding the emotional/trauma bond between the offender and victim is imperative to break this connection intervene when a minor is targeted. Research regarding childhood trauma, victim risk factors, juvenile justice, homeless and missing youth will be discussed.
Learning Objectives

Identify the types of traffickers and how they recruit their victims
Understand the grooming process how it is used to gain compliance
Learn the links of trafficking to childhood trauma, homeless and missing youth as well as additional risk and vulnerabilities.

Register through CornerHouse

41st Annual St. Louis County Health & Human Services Conference
2023-10-11 - 2023-10-13 | Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth, MN, 55802, United States
Training Overview
The St. Louis County Health and Human Services Conference is celebrating 41 years! Their theme for 2023 is Courageous Connections: Leading with Curiosity & Compassion. This conference will feature Mónica Guzmán and Anne Bonney as keynote speakers and offer a variety of workshops:

Brain Injury Basics
A Father’s Place: The Importance of Male Involvement in Early Childhood Development
Finding Humor in Social Work
Media and Pop Culture: How Our Culture Impacts Perceptions of Child Abuse and Maltreatment
healing our Wounds: A While Family Approach to Fostering Resilience
Detox your Life – Escaping the Negativity Trap!
Unmasking the Mass Incarceration System
person Centered Employee Management and Retention
From Cell to Street: What Offenders Need When They Return to the Community
And so much more!

About Keynote Speakers
Mónica Guzmán is a bridge builder, journalist, and author who lives for great conversations sparked by curious questions. Her new book, “I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times” was featured on the Glenn Beck Podcast and named a New York Times recommended read. She’s Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, the nation’s largest cross-partisan grassroots organization working to depolarize America; founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, an organization working to build a more curious world; and cofounder of the award-winning Seattle newsletter The Evergrey. She was a 2019 fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, where she studied social and political division, and a 2016 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where she researched how journalists can rethink their roles to better meet the needs of a participatory public. She was named one of the 50 most influential women in Seattle, served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, and plays a barbarian named Shadrack in her besties’ Dungeons & Dragons campaign. A Mexican immigrant, Latina, and dual US/Mexico citizen, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two kids and is the proud liberal daughter of conservative parents.
Anne Bonney is a fun, energetic international keynote speaker and courage ignitor. She is an authority on Change Management, twotime author, host and creator of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone Podcast and an experienced virtual, in-person and hybrid workshop facilitator. After 20 years in highly successful corporate and nonprofit leadership positions, Anne, now uses her experience, education, and expertise to ignite YOUR ability to embrace the discomfort of change, courageous communication and emotional intelligence.
Register here!
Online registration ends Friday, September 30, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.

No registration refunds after Friday September 15, 2022.

Make your check payable
SLC Human Service Conference Fund
Mail checks to:
320 West 2nd Street
GSC 4 West, Attn: HHS Conference
Duluth, MN 55802-1495

Red Lake Human Trafficking Conference
2023-05-03 - 2023-05-05 | Oshkiimaajitahdah Event Center, Redby, Minnesota
Training Overview
Red Lake Victim Services and Minnesota Department of Public Safety are presenting a conference on human trafficking. There will be many topics to discuss, which are human trafficking 101, trafficking trend/data, best practices, evidence collection and prosecution of “HT” cases, resources, and much more. See the flyer here.
Who Should Attend?

Tribal Law Enforcement
Victim Services
Court Personnel
Tribal Services Providers
Anyone else who woks closely with victims of crime

Register via Red Lake Victim Services
More detailed agenda will be available soon.

38th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment
2023-01-21 - 2023-01-27 | Town and Country Hotel, 500 Hotel Circle N., San Diego, CA, 92108, United States
Conference Overview
The objective of the San Diego Conference is to develop and enhance professional skills and knowledge in the prevention, recognition, assessment, and treatment of all forms of maltreatment including those related to family violence as well as to enhance investigative and legal skills. Issues concerning support for families, prevention, leadership, policy making, secondary, and translating the latest research into action are also addressed.
The conference will address a range of important multidisciplinary topics in the fields of child maltreatment, human trafficking, and domestic violence. We are inviting proposals for workshop/interactive sessions addressing one of the following topics:

Child Welfare & Diverse Issues
Forensic Interview
Global Perspectives
Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health
Investigations
Legal
Medical for Medical Professionals
Medical for the MDT
Mental Health/Trauma Counseling
Prevention & Family Strengthening
Scientific Sessions
Secondary Traumatic Stress
Trauma-Informed Systems
Victim Support and Advocacy

Early Bird Rate available through October 21, 2022. Register online.

Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
2022-10-07 08:00 - 11:00 | Online Webinar
Conference Overview
This conference is presented via Zoom by the Children’s Advocacy Center of Georgia.
Register for free.
Conference Schedule
Friday, October 7, 2022
Understanding and Responding to the Needs of Male CSEC Victims
This workshop series will explore challenges in identifying male victims and identify key considerations when working with male victims.
Speakers:
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. EST
Marq Taylor, Executive Director of the Buddy House
10:35 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. EST
Jose Alfaro, Survivor Leader
Friday, October 14, 2022
Missing vs. Runaway: Destigmatizing Missing and Exploited Youth
These workshops will explore the need for a cultural shift in how we perceive and respond to missing and exploited youth.
Speakers:
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Derrica Wilson, Co-Founder and CEO of the Black and Missing Foundation
10:35 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Jennifer Swain, Executive Director, youthSpark
Eliza Reock, Deputy Director, youthSpark
Friday, October 21, 2022
Racial and Gender Disparities in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
These workshops will explore racial and gender disparities of commercially sexually exploited youth and offer participants guidance on how to further advocate for marginalized populations.
Speakers:
10:35 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Yasmin Vafa, Executive Director, Rights for Girls
Friday, October 28, 2022
Survivor Stories
These experts with lived experience will offer their expertise on ways communities, direct service providers and first responders can better respond to and support the needs of commercially sexually exploited youth.
Speakers:
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Nola Brantley, CEO, Nola Brantley Speaks
10:35 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Dorsey Jones, Speaker and Survivor Leader

SafeChild Education Webinar
2020-06-01 12:00 - 15:30 | Online Webinar
Webinar Overview
Child and Adolescent Trafficking/Exploitation
Join special guest speaker, Dr. Jordan Greenbaum, a child abuse physician at Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Medical Director of the SVB Center’s Institute for Heathcare and Human Trafficking, and the Medical Director of the Global Child Health and Wellbeing Initiative for the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. Dr. Greenbaum is well-published on issues related to child and adolescent trafficking/exploitation.
This is an online event presented by the Otto Bremer Trust Center for Safe and Healthy Children. Register online.
Agenda
12:00-1:15 Dr. Jordan Greenbaum
1:15-1:30 Questions/Break
1:30-2:00 Dr. Nancy Harper and Rebecca Foell,
Otto Bremer Trust Center for Safe and Healthy Children
2:00-2:30 Hennepin Assault Response Team (HART)
2:30-3:00 Stacy Schultz, The Link
3:00-3:30 Karla Hurtley, Runaway Intervention Program (RIP)
To ensure privacy and safety of the meeting, please note:
Registration is required in order to obtain the meeting link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please make sure that your name is recognizable. To verify or change your name on Zoom, see this FAQ page.
Social Workers:
Social work CEUs are available for this webinar!
