Description: This course provides an overview of how to enter placement authorizations in TIPS. Objectives: Learn how to enter and sign placement authorizations.

This training is for service providers who have foundational knowledge about sexual exploitation and trafficking and are ready for a deeper dive into skill and practices. This training for service providers begins by exploring the Stages of Change theory and model of behavior change to deepen participant understanding of how people change and sustain new behaviors. Then, participants will learn to identify each of the 5 stages and how to shape service interventions based on each stage. Finally, practice exercises offer opportunities to apply new skills and knowledge about the Stages of Change. Learning Objectives: - Explore the Stages of Change: behavior change theory, model, and application - Learn how to recognize the six Stages of Change and target service responses to each stage - Practice identifying Stages of Change and apply model to service provider activities

This training will begin by exploring what safety is, and what it means to different people. This includes physical, emotional, psychological, financial and community contexts for safety. From there, we will explore processes for increasing safety including concrete strategies for developing safety plans with young people and clients. Learning Objectives: - Learn about different types of safety and contexts for what makes people feel safe - Explore opportunities to build safety into relationships by modeling boundaries and increasing choice and agency - Learn concrete strategies for creating and supporting implementation of safety plans

This training is for multi-disciplinary partners and service providers responding to sex trafficking cases. The training begins by exploring the reasons and conditions under which youth run away. This sets the stage for learning a process of assessment and intervention in running away behaviors with the goal of supporting youth and placement stability and decreasing running away behavior over time. The training concludes with a practice exercise to support integration of new knowledge and skills. Learning Objectives: - Explore running away behaviors as a set of responses to conditions in the home/placement or broader environment - Learn the Push/Pull Factors model and steps for responding to running away behavior - Integrate and apply the model to current practice and/or practice scenarios

This module covers identification of sexual exploitation and how to engage with youth who have experienced trafficking. It further explores recruitment and ways to prevent or interrupt further harm. This will prepare service providers to increase identification of trafficking and improve services and responses for youth who have been trafficked.

This module covers the legal definitions and framing of sex trafficking, and the landscape of exploitation. This will prepare service providers and first responders to identify and respond to trafficking using trauma-informed and victim-centered approaches. Learning Objectives: - Learn the federal and state definitions of trafficking and practice applying that in practice scenarios - Explore the landscape of exploitation and learn how and where sex trafficking occurs - Learn the 5 core lessons for responding to sex trafficking