Healing Systems, Healing Futures Summit Program Now Available

Healing Systems, Healing Futures: Collaboration in Today’s Healthcare Landscape

Co-Hosted with Boston Children’s Hospital

January 22, 2026 | 10:00 AM–4:30 PM ET | Virtual Event (Zoom)

After nearly 13 years of leading the movement to address human trafficking as a public health issue, HEAL Trafficking will host its first-ever Virtual Summit on Human Trafficking in Healthcare. This full-day virtual gathering is dedicated to learning, collaboration, and connection—and brings together clinicians, survivor leaders, educators, and public health professionals in shared conversation about building trauma-informed, survivor-centered systems of care.

What’s Inside the Summit Program

The official program includes the full agenda, session descriptions, and speaker information for the day, including:

• Opening keynote: Reimagining Healing Systems: Hope, Leadership, and Possibility
• Panel: Stronger Together: Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Anti-Trafficking Response
• Interactive workshops (choose one per session):
  
  • Hope Beyond Disaster: Climate Change and Trafficking Pathways
  • Hand in Hand: The Importance of Substance Use Care in Trafficking Services
  • Reconnecting Purpose Through Trauma-Informed Screening and PEARR
  • Collaborating to Support the Needs of African American Survivors of Human Trafficking
• Lunch & Learn Networking Sessions (small-group, facilitated discussions):
  
  • Responding to Youth Exploitation
  • Advancing Equity in Anti-Trafficking Response
  • Responding to Labor Trafficking
• Fireside Chat with Survivor Leaders: What Healing Really Means: A Conversation on Survivor-Centered Systems
• Closing address: Turning Dreams Into Action: Shaping Healing Futures Together  

Why This Summit, and Why Now

Healing Systems, Healing Futures was born out of the current landscape across healthcare and community organizations: systems are stretched thin, people are burnt out, and the work of responding to human trafficking can feel heavier than ever. This summit creates space to reconnect with purpose, engage with evidence-based learning, and explore what is possible when we innovate, elevate survivor leadership, and design systems rooted in equity, safety, and dignity.

Continuing Education

Continuing Education credits are available. Accreditation is provided through Boston Children’s Hospital.  

Registration

General Registration:

• $250 with CE credits

• $200 without CE credits

Group discounts are available for three or more participants from the same organization.

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