The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Males

Nicole Klasey, Psy.D. & Nola Brantley

Training Description

The national dialogue on commercial sexual exploitation has largely focused on the exploitation of females while the exploitation of males has been overlooked, which is problematic given the many risk factors male foster youth have. This 1-day training will discuss male sexual abuse and stigmas of masculinity as well as the challenges of identifying male abuse victims. The trainers will then discuss pathways of entry into sexual exploitation and commercial sex industry for males. It is crucial for social service providers to learn about the commercial sexual exploitation to be better equipped to have dialogue with male foster youth about commercial sexual exploitation

Learning Objective

• Participants will be able to describe Western society’s views of masculinity.
• Participants will be able to discuss masculinity with males in their programs.
• Participants will be able to identify at least 1 myth of male sexual abuse.
• Participants will be able to describe at least 1 pathway of entry in commercial sexual exploitation for males.

Agenda 

9:30am - 9:45am Welcome & Introductions

9:45am - 11:00am Society’s view of masculinity

11:00am - 11:15am Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

11:15am - 12:00pm Society’s view of masculinity, male sexual abuse

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

1:00pm - 3:00pm Male sexual abuse, Commercial sexual exploitation of males

3:00pm - 3:15pm Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

3:15pm - 4:15pm Commercial sexual exploitation of males

4:15pm - 4:30pm Closing and evals

Meet Our Trainers

Nicole Klasey is a clinical psychologist who has worked with trauma survivors for 14 years. She currently consults with agencies on trauma-informed care, programming for commercially sexually exploited youth, vicarious trauma, and leadership development. Nicole has been training multidisciplinary audiences on trauma-related topics since 2015 and provides guest lectures at local universities on human trafficking.

Nola 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 (5.5) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.