Engagement Skills for Working with System-Involved Sex Trafficking Survivors

Nola Kesia Brantley

Training Description

The training will begin with an overview of approaches used to work with sex trafficked youth in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice systems. The training will then look at harm reduction strategies and stages of change and how they can be used to effectively help sex trafficked youth exit the commercial sex industry. The training will conclude with strategies to more effectively safety plan and navigate public systems with Foster Care and Juvenile Justice involved youth who have experienced sex trafficking.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will be able to identify 3 strategies for supporting sex trafficked system-involved youth.

· Participants will be able to explain how using the stages of change model and harm reduction with sex trafficked system-involved youth can support improved outcomes.

· Participants will be able to identify at least 3 reasons why sex trafficked system-involved youth recruit other youth into the commercial sex industry.

Agenda

10:30-10:45am  Trainer and Topic Introduction

10:45-11:00am  Self-Engagement Skills

11:00-11:15am  Restorative Relationships

11:15-11:30am  Trauma Informed Approach

11:30-11:45am  Resiliency Based Approach

11:45am-12:00pm  Applying the Stages of Change: Pre-Contemplation

12:00-12:15pm  Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

12:15-12:30pm  Applying the Stages of Change: Contemplation

12:30-12:45pm  Continuum of Sexual Abuse

12:45-1:00pm  Building Relationships

1:00-1:30pm  Lunch Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

1:30-1:45pm  Developing Advocacy Plans

1:45-2:00pm  Commonly Needed Resources

2:00-2:15pm  Safety Planning

2:15-2:30pm  Stages of Change Scenarios

2:30-2:45pm  Safety Planning Scenarios

2:45-3:00pm  Trauma Bonds

3:00-3:15pm  Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

3:15-3:30pm  Navigating Public Systems: foster care, juvenile justice, the courts

3:30-3:45pm  Navigating Public Systems: schools, healthcare

3:45-4:00pm  Recruitment

4:00-4:15pm  Trauma and Resiliency

4:15-4:30pm  Questions and Close

Meet Our Trainer

Nola Kesia Brantley, CEO & Founder of Nola Brantley Speaks has become nationally recognized as a powerful Survivor voice for the issue of child sex trafficking through her moving and information packed public speaking. Her hard work and perpetual vigilance has brought both focus and concrete resources to this chronically underserved and largely unrecognized population of victimized youth. Nola’s approach aims to be holistic!

This course meets the qualifications for (5.0) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.