Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Caseworkers and Agencies (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores how caseworkers and agencies can best support victims of child trafficking. The first reading discusses the scope of human trafficking, myths, risk factors, victim needs, and service coordination. The second reading describes recent federal legislation and initiatives in addition to state and agency policy. The course emphasizes the need for a multifaceted, collaborative approach to the identification, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in children.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and it is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice
Readings:
1. Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Caseworkers
2. Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Agencies
Publisher: Child Welfare Information Gateway; Children’s Bureau
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to human trafficking and child welfare.
Learning Objectives: Identify common misperceptions about trafficking. Identify risk factors for human trafficking. Describe victim needs. Describe federal legislation and initiatives.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.