Social Strategies Training Center

Cost: $10.00

This module covers strategies for identification and engagement with youth who have experienced trafficking.  It focuses on relationship building as well as exploring recruitment and ways to prevent or interrupt further harm.  This training prepares service providers and first responders to increase their identification of human trafficking and improved their responses to youth experiencing trafficking. 

• Learn the red flags for identifying trafficking and exploitation.
• Explore the recruitment process and how to reduce or prevent further harm.
• Learn the process of relationship building and strategies for engagement.

Cost: $10.00

This module begins by exploring what safety is, and what it means to different people.  This includes physical, emotional, psychological, financial and community contexts for safety.  From there, we will explore the fundamental and processes for increasing safety including concrete strategies for developing safety plans with young people and clients. 

• Learn about different types of safety and contexts for what makes people feel safe.
• Explore opportunities to build safety into relationships by modeling boundaries and increasing choice and agency.
• Learn concrete strategies for creating and supporting implementation of safety plans. 

This module for service providers will increase skills and offer a framework for crisis response and de-escalation. The workshop will define the cycle of escalation, threat responses, the spectrum of ideation to intent, and the process of de-escalation. Participants will explore strategies to assess, respond, and de-escalate situations focused on direct practice settings and programs using hands-off approaches.

• Learn what is happening in the body-brain when someone becomes escalated or is having a threat response.
• Explore the process of de-escalation using the 3 A’s: Attunement, Assessment, Alignment.
• Apply de-escalation strategies to practice examples.

Must Complete the ToT Application before enrolling in this course.

Description:

This Training of Trainers (ToT) will prepare people to deliver the evidence-based Responding to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Youth foundational training in a flexible format.

Responding to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Youth prepares service providers and first responders to identify, engage, and support sexually exploited youth. Topics include laws and definitions, language, the landscape of exploitation, identification, and engagement.

The ToT is three online sessions, 3 hours each. Participants must attend all three sessions, as well as complete a 1-hour online training, prior to starting the training on October 14^th, 2024.  Space is limited.

Prerequisites:

This ToT has an application process linked below. Applications are open now and close on Monday, October 1^st. People will be notified regarding acceptance within one week of applying. Please send questions about the application to Trainings@SocialStrategies.com

Participants are encouraged to take a live version of the Responding to Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Youth, options available here: https://www.kingcountycsec.org/responding-to-the-sexual-exploitation-and-trafficking-of-youth

One week before the course, participants will receive a 1-hour, online, self-paced training that is required prior to attending the Training of Trainers.

Candidates should have:

Professional or lived experience with commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, and/or directly related topics.

Experience training, teaching, facilitating, and/or working with groups.

The intent and ability to train on this curriculum in your communities and/or agencies.

Cost: $300.00

Cost: $10.00

This unique course is designed for service providers working with youth in community-based, residential, therapeutic, or educational settings. The training begins with an introduction to youth service milieus, then explores milieus through the framework of ‘People, Structure, and Practices’. Topics include relationship building, boundaries, consistency, trauma informed milieus and general strategies for supporting milieus. The workshop concludes with an activity to identify strengths and challenges in current milieu scenarios.

• Learn what a youth service milieu is and what functions milieus serve in youth development.
• Explore the youth service milieu framework of People, Structure, and Practices for an integrated understanding of milieus.
• Practice applying training strategies to youth service milieus.