Webinar 15 - May 2025: Understanding Human Trafficking: Strengthening our Wraparound Community's Response

Wraparound community and system partners are invited to join us for an essential webinar on human trafficking!

Hosted in collaboration with the UC Davis Resource Center for Family Focused Practice (RCFFP), the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Family Center Practice Unit and the CDSS Child Trafficking Response Team, this session provides critical insights into the state of human trafficking in California and its impact on the youth and families we serve.

Topics Covered

  • Defining Human Trafficking – Understanding the distinction between trafficking and smuggling.
  • California’s Human Trafficking Landscape – Legal frameworks, key statistics and emerging trends.
  • Coercion & Control Tactics – How traffickers exploit victims through emotional and economic abuse, intimidation and isolation.
  • The A-M-P Model & CSEC Protections – An overview of California’s approach to trafficking, with a focus on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC).
  • System Responses and Collaboration – Exploring the 33 Human Trafficking Task Forces and multi-agency efforts across the state.
  • Harm Reduction Strategies – Practical approaches to supporting survivors while addressing risks and barriers.

This interactive session includes a Q&A discussion, equipping attendees with tools to better support survivors, identify risk factors and strengthen system-wide collaboration.

Who Should Attend?

Wraparound facilitators, care coordinators, family and youth partners, child welfare professionals, mental health providers and any system partners working with vulnerable populations at risk of trafficking are highly encouraged to attend!

Course Code
511409