This session explores practical tips and tools to strengthen grant writing, with a focus on effectively communicating the need for programs and services addressing sex trafficking. It also examines what existing data may not capture and how these gaps can be addressed to present a more compelling and well-supported case to funders.

This session explores how trauma and violence informed care principles can be meaningfully applied in practice to support sex trafficked persons. It examines practical strategies for creating safe, empowering, and responsive care environments and provides tools to strengthen advocacy and service delivery.

This session explores how offenders use grooming, manipulation, and technology to exploit individuals both online and in person. It examines current trends in sextortion and technology-facilitated exploitation, risk factors and warning signs, barriers to disclosure, and practical strategies for prevention and early intervention. Through real-world examples, the session provides guidance on identifying exploitation, responding appropriately to disclosures, supporting individuals at risk, and promoting online safety and resilience.

This session explores chronic illnesses commonly experienced by survivors, the biological effects of prolonged trauma, barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and evidence-informed approaches to comprehensive care. It provides practical strategies for identifying chronic health needs and delivering coordinated, trauma- and violence-informed interventions across healthcare and social service settings.

This session explores reproductive exploitation as an emerging and often overlooked form of human trafficking, including reproductive coercion, forced pregnancy, and coerced surrogacy. The session examines how force, fraud, coercion, manipulation, dependency, and abuse of vulnerability can be used to undermine reproductive autonomy. It also highlights potential indicators, risk factors, and impacts on survivors, as well as supportive, survivor-centred and rights-based approaches that prioritize safety, dignity, informed choice, confidentiality, and reproductive autonomy.