Statewide Child Trafficking Response Training

Explore our catalog of on-demand, virtual and recorded training & a list of providers to support your local response. Get started today in your efforts to prevent and address child trafficking!

Be sure to view PACT's Statewide Event Calendar to register for NEW & UPCOMING learning opportunities!

PACT - Lived Expert Developed Training

PACT offers customized training to support your county or agency's needs – Download our 2025 Flier to learn about lived expert led learning to improve a child trafficking response:

      • Trafficking in Familial Settings
      • Online Exploitation
      • Trafficking Amongst Peers
      • Forced Criminality
      • Resiliency Factors For Male Survivors
      • And More...

Click to Download the 2025 Training Opportunities Flier

 

CDSS - Statewide Training Contracts

Free to Child Welfare Agencies, Multi-Disciplinary Partners, Youth & Caregivers

 

The following on-demand, web-based, and virtual training opportunities are funded through SB 855 for California child welfare agencies, multi-disciplinary partners, caregivers, and youth. These trainings aim to enhance support for youth who are at risk of, or experiencing, child trafficking. Training contracts are made possible through support from the California Department of Social Services.

Sex Trafficking & Exploitation, Advanced Caregivers Training, 16-hour Training Course - Westcoast Children’s Clinic  

Learn trauma informed care principles and engagement frameworks to support youth experiencing exploitation. *Now available in Spanish and English.

Click below to register and view current training calendar.

CSEC 102  – 16-hour Training Course, West Coast Children's Clinic

CSEC 102 provides an advanced and comprehensive curriculum on best practices for serving youth that are commercially sexually exploited.

CACWT CSEC 101 ONLINE Course - Social Workers

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Online Training Course (CSEC 101) for Social Workers. Requires CACWT Login.

CACWT CSEC 101 ONLINE Course - Community Partners

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Online Training Course (CSEC 101) for Community Partners

The Cool Aunt Series (TCA) & TCA Calendar of Events

On-demand video prevention curriculum for all TEENS, "at-risk" PRETEENS, & ADULTS who care for them. No-cost to child welfare agencies to support youth & parent education. County based dashboards can maintained and set up through TCA Technical Assistance. 

TCA also offers a monthly training calendar with free virtual trainings with CEUs.

Sex Trafficking & Exploitation Caregiver 101, 3-hour Training Course - UC DAVIS CAARE Center

On-demand web course for Caregivers of youth Experiencing Sex Trafficking and Exploitation.  This 3-hour web course includes 3 modules: Information about sex trafficking, Meeting the needs of youth with practical parenting strategies, Secondary traumatic stress and self-care strategies

Increasing Trauma-Responsive Knowledge & Practical Skills, UC Davis Children’s CAARE Center 

Self-paced web course for Caregivers of Youth Experiencing Sex Trafficking and Exploitation​ to learn trauma responsive knowledget & skills.

Introduction to the Foundations of Harm Reduction, 2-hour Webcourse - UC Davis  CAARE Center

Self-Paced web course addressing the principles "keys" of harm reduction and strategies based on specific risks a youth is experiencing.

Statewide Child Trafficking Response Webinars - Preventing & Addressing Child Trafficking (PACT)

Regular virtual training for social workers, professionals, community members and caregivers on a variety of topics.

Child Trafficking Response Trainings - Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST)

Monthly virtual trainings on a variety of topics for social workers, professionals, community members and caregivers on a variety of topics, funded and shared by LA County's Department of Children and Family Services.

CAST's Child Trafficking of Minors 101 course includes an integrated approach to improve understanding of sex trafficking, labor trafficking & labor trafficking by forced criminality.

PACT Recorded Webinars

The Preventing and Addressing Child Trafficking Program provides free of cost virtual learning opportunities for child welfare agencies, professionals and other key  partners on child trafficking response topics. Check out a few of our recorded trainings below.

Technical Assistance and Training Providers

Find training providers with specialized expertise.

TitleCategoriesLink
Addressing the Growing Problem of Domestic Sex Trafficking in Minors through Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Addressing Trafficking in California’s Schools Training Series
Boys Are Trafficked Too! Factors of Resilience For Male Survivors of Exploitation
California Department of Social Services
California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
CAST LA,
Central Valley Against Human Trafficking
Central Valley Justice Coalition,
CFPIC Preventing and Addressing Child Trafficking Project (PACT)
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) – Los Angeles,
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth Fact Sheet – LA County DMH,
Considerations In Serving Foreign National Minor Victims of Human Trafficking Part 1,
Considerations In Serving Foreign National Minor Victims of Human Trafficking Part 2,
Elevate Academy,
Ending the Game,
Florida Human Trafficking Screening Tool
Florida Maltreatment Index CSEC and Labor Trafficking
Framework
Freedom Network USA
Futures Without Violence
GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Services)
Global Center for Women and Justice
HEAL Trafficking
HTIAM (Human Trafficking Interview and Assessment Measure) Assessment Tool
HTLA Cohort 2 Recommendations: Service Recommendations for Human Trafficking Survivors with Substance Use Disorders,
Human Trafficking Webinar Series – Protecting Young People from Online Exploitation
Identifying and Responding to Child Labor Trafficking,
Justice Coalition: Red Flags and Fine Lines
Justice Coalition: Trafficking and Technology
Justice Coalition: Trata De Personas 101
Labor Trafficking Protocol Implementation Worksheet,
Love 146
Matrix of Screening Tools to Identify Labor-Trafficked Children
Memorandum Summarizing the Available Screening Tools for Child Labor Trafficking
My Life My Choice,
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
National Center on Sexual Exploitation, ,
National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, ,
Nola Brantley Speaks
Not A Number – Love146
OVC TTAC Training and Technical Assistance Center
PACT Annual Convening 2022
PACT Annual Convening 2023
PACT Consultant Eligibility,
PACT Prevention Curriculum Resource Guide,
Rebecca Bender,
Recommended Topics to Consider for Training on Child Labor Trafficking
Resource Family Approval Human Trafficking Training Providers
Responding to Foreign National Minor Victims of Trafficking – PPT Slides,
Runaway Girl Inc.,
SOAR
SOAR Online Module: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
SOAR Online Module: Ethical Considerations for Working with Individuals who have Experienced Trafficking
SOAR Online Module: Foreign Nationals
SOAR Online Module: Indigenous Communities Module
SOAR Online Module: Trauma Informed Care
SOAR Online Module: Universal Education and Training Module
SOAR Online Module: Working with Individuals with Substance Abuse and/or Co-Occurring Disorders
SOAR to Health and Wellness
The Central Valley Justice Coalition: CSEC 101 – Addressing Childhood Exploitation
The Cool Aunt Series
The Prevention Project
Top 21 Anxiety Grounding Techniques,
Treasures Training
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
Westcoast Children’s Clinic
WestCoast Children’s Clinic,
What Is Boundary Setting? A guide to setting limits with parents, partners, friends, and co-workers,
What Is Complex PTSD?,
Word on the Street,
World Without Exploitation,