How To Talk To Youth About Human Trafficking (1 credit hour)

Program Summary:   This course offers a guide for how to recognize human trafficking, how to talk to youth about exploitation, and how to build protective factors to help prevent youth from human trafficking situations.  The course describes common myths and misconceptions about human trafficking and identifies physical, behavioral, and social signs of human trafficking.  Examples of human trafficking are provided and include tactics that traffickers might use to exploit victims.  Risk and protective factors are discussed.

This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.  

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Course Reading:  How To Talk To Youth About Human Trafficking

Publisher:  DHS

Course Objectives:  To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring how to recognize and talk to youth about human trafficking.

Learning Objectives:  Identify signs for recognizing human trafficking.  Describe tips for talking to youth about exploitation.  Describe risk and protective factors related to human trafficking.

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Course Available Until: October 31, 2025.

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1: The crime of human trafficking hinges on
 
 
2: To victims, traffickers can be
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3: Which of the following is a myth?
 
 
4: Which of the following is a myth?
 
 
5: Which of the following is a myth?
 
 
6: When talking to youth, it is important to highlight their risk factors and experiences as something that could make them more vulnerable to human trafficking situations.
 
 
7: When talking to youth about human trafficking, DO
 
 
8: When talking to youth about human trafficking, DO
 
 
9: Being obsessed with one another is part of being in love.
 
 
10: Having a controlling partner means that they care about you.
 
 
11: Which of the following describes a healthy relationship?
 
 
 
 
 
12: If you share a personal photo and someone uses it to threaten or blackmail you, you have options.
 
 

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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 1 continuing education credit.

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 has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.

Course Available Until: October 31, 2025.
Filed under: Children, Human Trafficking