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:
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- Trafficking in Familial Settings
- Online Exploitation
- Trafficking Amongst Peers
- Forced Criminality
- Resiliency Factors For Male Survivors
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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.
- Email for questions – csectraining@westcoastcc.org
- Advanced Caregiver Training
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.
- Questions- Email csectraining@westcoastcc.org
- CSEC 102 - Westcoast Children's Clinic
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.
- Intro to Foundations of Harm Reduction Webcource Login
- Use Course Access Code: S1CAHR25 (Exp 6/30/25)
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.
- Lived Expertise Customizable Training Opportunities - 2025 Training Flier
- PACT Statewide Calendar of Events
- Email PACT@cfpic.org to Request Training or Fill our our Request Form
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.
Additional Low or No Cost On Demand Virtual Training
Connect to online training available on demand.
Technical Assistance and Training Providers
Find training providers with specialized expertise.