Building Capacity to Address Sex Trafficking and Normalcy: Child Welfare Virtual Expo (CWVE) 2016
Explore best practices and effective strategies to address sex trafficking and promote normalcy among children and youth in foster care in these key areas:
- Bridging sex trafficking and normalcy
- Frameworks and strategies to develop and implement successful, trauma-informed programs to address child and youth sex trafficking
- Collecting, using, and sharing data to inform sex trafficking prevention and intervention strategies
- Collaborating to improve permanency outcomes for youth
- Developmentally appropriate services for children, youth, and young adults in foster care
- Considerations and approaches to understanding and implementing normalcy through the congregate care lens
Ready to Get Started?
First, select the topics that align with your personal and team interests. Then, watch the videos individually or as a group. Incorporate the videos into team discussions to create a shared understanding of how these topics relate to everyday work and develop action plans to move the work forward.
Building Capacity to Address Sex Trafficking and Normalcy videos are available on CapLEARN; registration required.
Explore the intersections between sex trafficking prevention and normalcy. Watch the video to:
- Learn more about the complexities of sex trafficking and federal efforts to address and prevent trafficking through a public health approach
- Build understanding about how normalcy supports critical, healthy development in children and youth
- Explore how normalcy can prevent sex trafficking
Explore successful approaches to develop and implement trauma-informed interventions to support survivors of sex trafficking. Watch the video to:
- Learn more about a specific framework and effective strategies to support survivors of sex trafficking
- Build understanding about trauma-informed approaches to screening and identifying survivors of sex trafficking
Explore data strategies and best practices related to youth who are at risk for or are survivors of sex trafficking. Watch the video to:
- Learn more about federal reporting requirements related to children and youth at risk for sex trafficking
- Build understanding about effective approaches to collect, analyze, and disseminate data related to youth who have run away from foster care, are at risk of running away, or have been identified as victims of sex trafficking
Explore strategies, insights, and lessons learned related to advancing meaningful collaboration between child welfare agencies and courts in support of permanency. Watch the video to:
- Identify some essential components of collaboration between child welfare agencies and courts to improve normalcy and permanency
- Explore state, court, Tribal, and youth perspectives on collaboration to promote normalcy in care
The Heart of the Matter: Collaborating to Improve Permanency Outcomes for Youth
Explore personal stories from people with lived and/or professional expertise in child welfare. Watch the video and engage in team discussions to:
- Reflect on opportunities to strengthen practice
- Recommit to the fundamental values of social work
Learn about research, policies, and practices related to overcoming barriers to normalcy in the least homelike environments. Watch the video and engage in team discussions to:
- Hear directly from a young adult formerly in congregate care and a program director
- Explore strategies to foster normalcy in congregate care environments
Continuing Education Credits
We are pleased to offer social work, clinical psychology, counseling, and marriage and family therapy continuing education units (CEUs) with this learning experience. A link to purchase CEUs is provided in the description of individual sessions.*
*Note: The CEU sponsor, R. Cassidy Seminars, maintains responsibility for its CEU program. For more information on the licensing program and requirements, please visit the sponsor’s website.
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