The National Center for Health Statistics has released its latest report on contraceptive use in the United States. The NCHS data clearly show that nearly 70% of women between the ages of 25 to 44 currently use a contraceptive method. That may not be much of a surprise; however, there are interesting data showing how education level and age each exert influence on the methods women choose to use ...read more

FIRST WEBINAR

TITLE: Trafficking, Trauma, & Trauma-Informed Care for Domestic Trafficking Survivors 

DATE & TIME: January 28, 2015 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET  

DURATION: 1 hour and 30 minutes 

REGISTRATION LINK: https://bwjp.ilinc.com/register/tybtswt  

We encourage all participants to attend webinar series to build on and operationalize your knowledge

DESCRIPTION: The first of three webinars lays the foundation for understanding the types of domestic trafficking, the traumatic impacts of victimization, and operationalizing trauma-informed responses within new and existing advocacy structures and partnerships.   

• Types of Domestic Trafficking: Understanding the differences between pimp-, gang-, parent-, crime syndicate- and transgender-controlled trafficking serves to guide outreach and service strategies.
• Tina Frundt, Courtney's House, is a leading expert and trainer in the field on services for victims of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking; and a DMST survivor herself.  
• Complex Trauma lives in the physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, mental/cognitive, relational, behavioral, and/or parenting experiences of survivors.
• Elisabeth Corey, Beating Trauma, is a writer, speaker, trainer, sex abuse and trafficking survivor whose reaches into her own trauma journey to educate, support and deepen our understanding of holistic harms and healing.  
• Trauma-Informed Care integrates the impact of individual, historic, chronic, insidious, and community-, family- and systems-inflicted trauma into program design.
• Carole Warshaw, National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health is a national trainer, a complex thinker, and a powerfully effective advocate for the implementation of trauma-specific and trauma-informed services across systems.      
• Anti-trafficking responses require systems to learn new practices and engage in new multi-agency partnerships, so at critical points of contact, such as arrest, release, healthcare, counseling, shelter, etc., they are trauma-informed gateways to help, healing and safety.
• Chic Dabby, Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, engages in training, technical assistance, issue-analysis, research, and policy advocacy to the surface culturally-specific dynamics of domestic and sexual violence and trafficking and the powerful intervention and organizing models Asian/Pacific Islander advocates have built to grow gender democracy in their communities.