Engagement Skills for Working with System-Involved Sex Trafficking Survivors

Nola Kesia Brantley & Withelma TiOra “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew

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.