Human Trafficking and Child Welfare: A Guide for Caseworkers (1 credit hour)

Program Summary:  This course explores how caseworkers can best identify and support victims of child trafficking.  The course discusses the scope of human trafficking, the intersection of human trafficking and child welfare, risk factors, and the needs of those who experience trafficking.  The course recommends 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

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Reading:  Human Trafficking and Child Welfare:  A Guide for Caseworkers

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.

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Course Available Until: April 30, 2028.

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1: Young people involved with child welfare are vulnerable to trafficking because of their potentially
 
 
 
 
 
2: Trafficking often involves
 
 
 
 
3: Which of the following is NOT a risk factor for human trafficking?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4: People are often trafficked by
 
 
5: How are children and youth recruited and controlled by perpetrators?
 
 
 
 
6: Human trafficking only happens in illegal or underground industries.
 
 
7: It is estimated that as many as one in ________ youth experience sex trafficking victimization during a foster care runaway episode.
 
 
 
 
8: Children and youth who have experienced trafficking need
 
 
 
 
9: Building rapport with children and youth who have experienced trafficking involves
 
 
10: Which of the following is an example of an indicator of possible sex and/or labor trafficking?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11: When connecting victims to services, caseworkers can let the ____________ guide their plan while the caseworker supports them.
 
 
 
 

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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: April 30, 2028.
Filed under: Children, Human Trafficking