Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims Of Domestic Violence And Sexual AssaultA Multi-Day Virtual Training Institute in February 2021Application deadline: December 3, 2020 Survey

Institute Overview

Multidisciplinary teams are invited to participate in a Building Collaborative Responses to Trafficked Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Institute. The Institute will focus on improving collaborative responses for adult/youth domestic violence and sexual assault victims who have also experienced human trafficking.

As a result of the Institute, participants will be better able to:

Strengthen multi-disciplinary collaborative strategies in responding to youth and adult trafficked survivors with domestic violence and sexual assault experiences.
Define and clarify professional and organizational roles and responsibilities in responding to trafficked survivors.
Identify the intersections of human trafficking and domestic and sexual violence.
Provide a victim-centered, trauma-informed response to trafficked survivors.
Create an action plan to develop and implement a collaborative response to address human trafficking in your community.

Institute Schedule

January 2021: Pre-Institute work, team collaboration, and pre-recorded webinar

Live, 2 hours webinars at 2:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. PST (subject to change):

Tuesday, February 2: Module 1 - Support for Survivors and Collaboration
Tuesday, February 9: Module 2 - Collaboration Strategies
Tuesday, February 16: Module 3 - Collaboration Sustainability
Tuesday, February 23: Module 4 - Collaboration Action Plan Exchange

Faculty
Kiricka Yarbough-Smith, Anti-Human Trafficking Consultant
John Vanek, Lieutenant (retired), Human Trafficking Consultant
Perla Flores, Division Director for DV/SA/HT Programs, Community Solutions/South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking
Cindy Liou, Anti-Human Trafficking Consultant

Please see below, for information on who may attend and commitments.