Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Advanced Skills Training
Overview
This advanced training equips school-based and community mental health clinicians with the knowledge and skills to effectively support commercially sexually exploited children and youth (CSECY). Emphasizing trauma informed and culturally responsive care, the training will focus on strategies that foster safety, trust, and resilience while addressing the unique needs of diverse populations. Participants will gain practical tools for evaluation, intervention, and collaboration to strengthen their capacity in working with this highly vulnerable group. This training also describes consequences for clinicians, such as compassion fatigue, and provides tools to assess their own current capacity and fatigue. Clinicians will leave equipped with tools to build their own capacity, resilience, and self-care to be able to sustain effective work with this community.
Learning objectives
- Analyze the complex intersections of trauma, culture, and systemic inequities that contribute to the commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth (CSECY)
- Apply trauma informed, culturally responsive strategies to enhance engagement, safety, and trust when working with CSECY in school-based and community mental health settings
- Formulate a clinician self-care plan that integrates reflective practice, compassion fatigue awareness, and resilience-building strategies to sustain effective work with CSECY
Training times
This training is provided at the time(s) and in the format(s) shown below.