HEAL Essentials Certificate: Trauma-Informed Screening and Assessment
Strengthen your ability to recognize, respond, and engage with survivors through trauma-informed screening and assessment practices that prioritize safety, consent, trust, and survivor choice. This live virtual training is part of the HEAL Essentials Certificate in Anti-Trafficking Response, a structured learning program designed to build practical knowledge and real-world skills for professionals across healthcare, public health, and allied systems.
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Strengthen your ability to recognize, respond, and engage with survivors through trauma-informed screening and assessment practices that prioritize safety, consent, trust, and survivor choice.
This live virtual training is part of the HEAL Essentials Certificate in Anti-Trafficking Response, a structured learning program designed to build practical knowledge and real-world skills for professionals across healthcare, public health, and allied systems.
Course Overview
Trauma can profoundly shape how survivors experience healthcare, social services, education, law enforcement, and other systems of support. Effective screening and assessment require more than identifying indicators—they require approaches that recognize trauma, reduce harm, and build trust.
In this live virtual training, participants will explore practical, trauma-informed approaches to screening and assessment that prioritize safety, dignity, consent, and survivor choice. Through interactive discussion, case scenarios, and skills-based activities, the course examines how professionals can recognize trauma responses, communicate more effectively, and support survivors without causing additional harm.
Participants will also explore strategies for documenting encounters, strengthening multidisciplinary collaboration, and sustaining trauma-informed practice across healthcare, social services, public health, education, law enforcement, and related fields.
In This Training, You Will:
- Recognize how trauma influences health, behavior, communication, and engagement with services
- Apply trauma-informed approaches to screening and assessment that prioritize safety, consent, and survivor choice
- Strengthen communication and documentation practices that reduce harm and build trust
- Apply the PEARR framework to support respectful, survivor-centered screening conversations
- Explore multidisciplinary strategies that strengthen coordinated responses while supporting practitioner well-being
About the HEAL Essentials Certificate
This course is part of the HEAL Essentials Certificate in Anti-Trafficking Response, a four-part learning program designed to build foundational knowledge and practical skills for professionals responding to trafficking.
The certificate follows a clear learning arc—from foundational understanding to ethical engagement, trauma-informed assessment, and coordinated systems response. Participants may enroll in individual trainings or complete the full certificate program to earn the HEAL Essentials Certificate.
Newer to this work? We recommend starting with Human Trafficking: Foundations for Recognition and Response.
Course Details
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Time: 1:00–4:30 PM ET
Location: Live Virtual (Zoom)
Individual Registration: $125
Full Certificate Program: $499 (includes all Essentials trainings + Foundations)
Group Discount: 10% for groups of three or more
Early Registration Discount: 10%
Continuing education approval information will be added upon final approval.
Who Should Attend
This training is designed for healthcare providers, social workers, public health professionals, victim service providers, educators, law enforcement professionals, caregivers, advocates, and others working at the intersection of health and human trafficking.
It is especially relevant for professionals seeking practical tools to conduct trauma-informed screening and assessment, strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration, and build systems of care that promote safety, trust, and survivor-centered practice. No prior experience is required.