In this Continuing Education course, social workers will learn about the scope and nature of the crime of human trafficking and the ways in which trafficking survivors encounter service providers in order to better understand how to identify and recognize survivors in their practice, with particular attention on forced criminality in situations of human trafficking. Social workers will be equipped with tools to understand forced criminality and the various ways in which survivors encounter the criminal justice system. In learning how and why survivors of trafficking are criminalized and become justice-involved, attendees will learn the role that bias, racism, and other forms of discrimination play in societal failures to identify survivors and protect them. Ultimately, attendees will learn the ways in which survivors can be denied appropriate services and the consequences that forced criminality has on survivors’ road to recovery. The course will end by providing attendees with resources, solutions, and avenues to better serve and protect this vulnerable population, as well as advocate for an end to their unjust detention and incarceration.

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