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Forward1st Annual One Mission Conference: Human Trafficking Awareness
Date & Location:
January 12, 2024
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel
One Monarch Place
Springfield, MA
413-781-1010
Goal:
The goal of this educational activity is to support safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, equitable and trauma-informed care. Individuals who have experienced Human Trafficking often go unidentified and/or professionals who encounter these individuals may not understand how to engage in survivor centered practices. Due to factors such as a lack of public awareness about the issue; the reluctance of many human trafficking survivors to identify themselves as experiencing trafficking; and extreme measures taken by exploiters to hide their crimes, many survivors go unidentified and are deprived of special care and intervention resources. Human Trafficking is a public health problem which has serious implications for the health and well-being of vulnerable individuals who come from all backgrounds, genders, nations, and economic levels. Children have additional vulnerabilities that make them more susceptible to the grooming tactics of human traffickers. Since 2021 the One Mission Coalition has identified 483 trafficked, exploited, or at-risk youth in Hampden County. Thus, the hope of this conference is to increase community awareness and provide professionals who encounter survivors the tools needed to support them at any point in their journey.
Provided by:
Baystate Family Advocacy Center One Mission Program, The Child Advocacy Training & Support Center & Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education
Target Audience
This conference is designed for health care, mental health, faith-based organizations, advocates, law enforcement, education and victim service professionals. It will provide you with tools and skills in recognizing and accessing appropriate resources to assist individuals who are susceptible and/or have experienced human trafficking.
Learning Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
- Describe ways to reduce a youth's feelings of attachment to a trafficker and/or the lifestyle of commercial sexual exploitation
- List the STREAMS of Influence-- the 7 risk factors that lead to sex trafficking
- Recognize the harmful psychological power of coercion from the perspective of a Human Trafficking Survivor
- Be able to employ at least 3 survivor empowerment strategies
- Identify engagement strategies for working with families and children that have experienced sexual exploitation
- Apply self-care practices that reduce secondary trauma when working with Human Trafficking survivors
- Incorporate survivor informed strategies for Human Trafficking service provision
- Demonstrate awareness to the crimes being committed by online predators
- Identify strategies to keep children safe from online predators
- List at least three common mental health impacts for youth who have experienced trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation.
- Describe three or more treatment challenges identified by mental health professionals working with youth impacted by trafficking and their caregivers.
- Identify at least five treatment elements that are critical to mental health intervention with youth and families impacted by trafficking
- Recognize how typical sexual health development intersects with experience of exploitation and trafficking
- Develop interventions to help get sexual health development back on track
This conference is supported by funding from the following sources: Massachusetts Children’s Alliance, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration-National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative.
8:30am | Registration |
9:00am | Welcome & Introduction Tyrena Lester, MSW, LICSW |
9:15am | Consensus Mental Health Treatment Guidelines for Youth and Families Impacted by Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Lessons from the Field Elizabeth Hopper, Ph.D., Co-Director, National Center on Child Trafficking (NCCT); Justice Resource Institute |
10:20am | Keynote Speaker: Human Trafficking: It Can Happen To Anyone Rachel C. Thomas, M.Ed., Survivor & Author |
11:10am | The intersections between sexual health and youth who have experienced sexual exploitation: What MDT and community providers need to know Sarah Liquorman, PsyD, Psychologist, Baystate Family Advocacy Center |
12:00pm | Lunch |
12:45pm | Survivor Informed Services for children & youth who have experienced Commercial Sexual Exploitation Krystyna Boisjolie L.S.W., B.S., Associate Vice President of Community Services |
1:35pm | Keeping Children Safe & Secure Online: A Project Safe Childhood Presentation Supervisory Special Agent Matt Fontaine, Federal Bureau of Investigation |
2:20pm | Keynote workshop: The Cool Aunt Series & Ending the Game; Prevention and Intervention Strategies Rachel C. Thomas, M.Ed., Survivor & Author |
3:30pm | Closing Remarks
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FACULTY
Rachel C. Thomas, M.Ed.
Survivor & Author
United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking
Sowers Education Group
Krystyna Boisjolie, LSW, BS
Associate Vice President of Community Services
Robert F. Kennedy Community Alliance
Tanyka Barnett, CAN & A.L.A.
Program Coordinator & Survivor Mentor
Legacy Mentor Program
Robert F. Kennedy Community Alliance
Talia Magnani, BSW
Lead Mentor & Survivor
Legacy Mentor Program
Robert F. Kennedy Community Alliance
Supervisory Special Agent Matt Fontaine
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Karen Legace, BA
Project Safe Childhood Program Specialist
United States Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts District
Catherine Curley, J.D.
Assistant United States Attorney
United States Attorney’s Office, District of MA
Lauryn Mackey, BA
Victim Witness Specialist
United States Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts District
Elizabeth Hopper, Ph.D.
Co-Director, National Center on Child Trafficking (NCCT)
Justice Resource Institute
Kelly Kinnish, PhD.
Co-Director, National Center on Child Trafficking
(NCCT)
School of Public Health
Georgia State University
Rachel Niemiec, DNP, FNP-C
Coordinator of Family Nurse Practitioner Tack, Assistant Professor
UMass Chan Medical School
Sarah Liquorman, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist
Baystate Family Advocacy Center
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Latirah Cisero, M.Ed.
CSEC Coordinator
Baystate Family Advocacy Center
Stephanie Daly, MD
Medical Director
Baystate Family Advocacy Center
Jennifer McCaffrey, BA, CCRP
Clinical Research Coordinator
Baystate Health
Tyrena Lester, LICSW
Victim Services Supervisor
Baystate Family Advocacy Center
Lisa McCue, BS
Victim Services Consultant
Baystate Child Advocacy Training & Support Center
Chelsea Santos, RN
Baystate Health Child Partial Hospitalization Program
Jessica Wozniak, Psy.D.
Manager, Clinical Research & Development
Department of Psychiatry Baystate Health
Director
Baystate Child Advocacy Training & Support Center
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychiatry UMass Chan Medical School – Baystate Health
Faculty Disclosure
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships listed are mitigated prior to the activity.
None of the members of the faculty or planning committee have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physicians
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 contact hour(s). Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Psychologists
Baystate Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 5. CE credit(s) for psychologists have been granted for this educational activity.
Mental Health Counselors
Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. (ACEP #5684) 5.5 clock hour(s)
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE Program)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Baystate Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses are approved under this program. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this course. Social Workers completing this course receive 5.5 continuing education credits.
For Educators and Other Professionals, IPCE credit has been awarded.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 5.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 5.50 ANCC Contact Hours
- 5.50 APA American Psychological AssociationBaystate Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- 5.50 ASWB Continuing Education Credit(s)
- 5.50 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
- 5.50 NBCCBaystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBC requirements. The ACEP solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Price
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We appreciate your business and sincerely wish to meet your educational needs. We understand that the schedule of a busy professional, like yourself, is subject to change. Therefore, we have included information about our refund/cancellation policies for your convenience below.
Cancellation:
If you must cancel, telephone Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education at 413-322-4242 and follow your call with a written/email request. All cancellations will incur a $25.00 fee. Please note that we cannot refund cancellations received less than two weeks (10 business days) before the program date.
Refund Policy:
Your refund, less a cancellation fee, will be processed within two (2) weeks from the date we receive the written notification. For credit card refunds, please allow one to two (1-2) billing cycles for the credit to appear on your statement.
Specific Aids or Services:
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