Understanding & Working with Children and Youth Who Have Been Sexually Exploited

A three-day workshop that will give you the understanding and skills to work with children and youth who have been sexually exploited/trafficked in the sex trade.

This workshop is necessary to address the realities of sexually exploited and trafficked children, youth, and adults in and will help work towards accomplishing the long-term goal of the Manitoba Provincial Strategy “Tracia’s Trust” to abolish sexual exploitation. Training for all systems, including child welfare, justice, education, and health, is critical to this goal’s accomplishment.

THE TRAINING WILL HELP YOU TO:

• Build awareness and understanding of your own strengths, biases, values, etc.
• Clarify important issues, dispel myths and misconceptions, and challenge conventional views and perspectives
• Increase your understanding of the historical impacts of colonization and other factors that have contributed to the sexual exploitation/trafficking of children/youth
• Gain knowledge on current sex trafficking criminal code legislation and Provincial legislation.
• Gain knowledge on sex trade/trafficking culture and understand how predators (pimps/traffickers/gangs) exploit children/youth
• Assess risk and level of exploitation
• Intervene effectively with children/youth at different stages
• Employ Person-Centered; Cultural; Stages of Change; and Harm Reduction strategies
• Identify the barriers associated with exiting the sex trade and adapt treatments
• Increase knowledge and awareness of the range of services and resources that have been designed to intervene, protect, and support children/youth