Training & Education on Human Trafficking

Professional Training on Human Trafficking

Patcoalition delivers a variety of expert-led trainings that help organizations, schools, and communities better recognize and respond to human trafficking. Every session is hands-on, interactive, and shaped around the audience it serves.

Available Training Topics

Trauma Informed Care

This session introduces the Trauma Informed Care model and demonstrates how your organization can put it into practice when serving trafficking victims and survivors. Attendees work in small groups to apply TIC principles with clients, and the training examines how the model improves case management, relationship building, and client outcomes.

Screening Tools and Assessments

Discover how to create and adapt screening tools and assessments for the population you serve so that trafficking victims and survivors are identified more reliably. The session features a role play built on established tools and real-life examples, along with guidance on next steps after identification to safeguard survivors and connect them with the right resources.

Self Care for Providers

Supporting survivors can take a real toll on the people who provide services. This training acknowledges the challenges providers face and shares strategies for maintaining wellbeing while carrying out this demanding work.

Trafficking in the International Communities

Learn from field experts about the distinct complexities of human trafficking within immigrant and refugee communities. The training explores how to overcome service barriers such as language, fear of deportation, and limited local support, and it covers the legal issues international victims and survivors face, including documentation, visas, and legal rights.

Train the Trainer

This session prepares you to teach your own organization or community about what human trafficking is, how to spot it, and what to do when it is suspected or confirmed. Train the Trainer equips organizational and community experts to educate their peers, using insider knowledge of the internal and cultural factors that make each organization or community unique.

School Training: I Am Little Red

I AM LITTLE RED was conceived by Linda Cabot, a key funder of I AM JANE DOE, who saw the documentary as a way to spark awareness and dialogue about online child-sex trafficking. Worried that the film would not reach the children who most needed it, she helped create a resource aimed directly at them. I AM LITTLE RED draws on the insight of 10 survivors of sex trafficking aged 14 to 21 from My Life My Choice, who co-wrote the script.

I AM LITTLE RED is a 10-minute animated short created for children most at risk for sex trafficking, including those in foster care, runaways, LGBTQ youth, homeless children, and adopted children, with the goal of prevention and awareness. The film explores the four tactics a "wolf" (trafficker or pimp) typically uses to lure a Little Red off their path. (Adapted from the website for I Am Little Red.)

Following a brief introduction to human trafficking and a screening of the short film, we use the I Am Little Red teaching curriculum, created by the filmmakers, to educate audiences and raise awareness about child human trafficking. The curriculum includes a discussion of the film, a question and answer session about the film and human trafficking, reflection time for the audience, and space for general questions. The presentation and film are designed for middle school and high school audiences.

Book a Training

Reach out to us about customizing a training to fit your organization's specific needs or audience. All of our trainings are offered at no cost, and to help offset training costs we welcome and gratefully accept supportive monetary donations.