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Registration Open - HEAL Essentials: Multidisciplinary and Supportive Responses to Trafficking

Build practical skills for coordinated, survivor-centered responses to human trafficking. This live virtual training explores multidisciplinary collaboration, communication, referral, and strategies for strengthening supportive responses across systems.

Registration Open - HEAL Essentials Certificate: Multidisciplinary and Supportive Responses to Trafficking

Strengthen your ability to collaborate across disciplines and systems while building coordinated responses to human trafficking that center survivor safety, autonomy, choice, and identified needs.

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

Effective responses to human trafficking rarely happen within a single profession, organization, or system. Survivors may interact with healthcare providers, social services, advocates, law enforcement, legal systems, public health agencies, and other community partners, making thoughtful coordination across disciplines an important part of anti-trafficking response.

In this live virtual training, participants will explore practical approaches to multidisciplinary collaboration that prioritize survivor safety, autonomy, and choice. Through interactive discussion and applied activities, the course examines the roles different professionals and systems may play in responding to trafficking and how those partners can communicate, coordinate referrals, and work together effectively.

Participants will also consider common gaps and barriers within multidisciplinary responses and identify practical opportunities to strengthen collaboration within their own organizations and communities.

In This Training, You Will:

  • Examine the roles of different professionals and systems in multidisciplinary anti-trafficking responses
  • Apply survivor-centered approaches to collaboration, referral, and service coordination
  • Strengthen communication and information-sharing across disciplines
  • Identify common gaps, barriers, and opportunities within local response networks
  • Explore practical strategies for building more coordinated and supportive responses to trafficking

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, December 8, 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% through November 10, 2026

Refund Policy: Refunds are available for cancellations made on or before November 10, 2026. After November 10, registration fees are nonrefundable; however, participants who are unable to attend may apply their registration fee as a credit toward a future HEAL training.

Who Should Attend

This training is designed for healthcare providers, social workers, public health professionals, victim service providers, advocates, educators, law enforcement professionals, legal professionals, administrators, and others involved in responding to human trafficking.

It is especially relevant for professionals seeking practical strategies to strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration, improve coordination across organizations and systems, and develop responses that center survivor safety, autonomy, and choice. No prior experience is required.

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