Description

After nearly 13 years of leading the movement to address human trafficking as a public health issue, HEAL Trafficking will host its first-ever Virtual Summit on Human Trafficking in Healthcare. This full-day event is dedicated to learning, collaboration, and connection.

As the leading NGO equipping healthcare professionals around the world to respond to trafficking, HEAL has trained thousands of providers and built a global network committed to trauma-informed, survivor-centered care. Now, for one day, we are bringing that network together to chart the path forward.

Healing Systems, Healing Futures will explore how healthcare and public health professionals can sustain hope and leadership in a time of challenge. Through keynote sessions, panels, and interactive workshops, you will gain tangible tools, real-world strategies, and cross-sector partnerships to strengthen healthcare’s response to trafficking while reconnecting to the purpose that drives this work.

Who Should Attend

This summit is open to anyone interested in hearing from experts and practitioners shaping the future of health and human trafficking response, including:

• Clinicians across all disciplines
• Survivor leaders and advocates
• Public health professionals
• Educators and trainers
• Nonprofit and community partners

Whether you are new to anti-trafficking work or a seasoned professional, this summit offers actionable skills and collaborative opportunities to enhance your impact.

What to Expect

• Inspiring Plenary Sessions: Visionary voices share hope and a call to creatively tackle today’s challenges and shape the future of survivor-centered healthcare.
• Interactive, Forward-Thinking Workshops: Engage in practical, innovative sessions exploring trauma-informed care, equity, systems-level strategies, and emerging issues in the field.
• Panels and Fireside Chats: Hear diverse perspectives from survivors, clinicians, and cross-sector leaders on real-world challenges, effective solutions, and collaborative approaches.
• Networking Opportunities: Connect with peers, thought leaders, and experts across healthcare, policy, and advocacy to share experiences, ideas, and strategies.

Learning Objectives: 

By the end of the summit, you will be able to:

1. 1. Reconnect with purpose amid a climate of workforce fatigue and limited resources.
   2. Advance clinical and systems-level competencies in human trafficking response.
   3. Apply ethical, survivor-informed innovations in healthcare practice and leadership.
   4. Foster cross-sector collaboration as a core skill.
   5. Implement tangible tools to improve institutional responses and inform long-term strategies.
   6. Integrate creativity, leadership, and evidence-based care within complex systems.

To register, please click on the register tab above. If this is your first time registering for a conference at Boston Children’s Hospital, you will need to create an account. Returning users can log in to their account to complete the registration process.   

*Early Bird Registration Date Deadline: December 22, 2025

Group Rate: Save 10% when 3 or more individuals from the same organization register

Group Rate (Save 10% when 3 or more individuals from the same organization register). For more information please reach out to cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu. 

Pre-registration is required. Once you have registered you will receive a confirmation email with a registration receipt. Course access instructions will be sent a few days prior to the course launch. If you have questions or need assistance with registration, please direct all inquiries to cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu.

Online Course Cancellation, Transfer & Refund Policy
Due to the propriety materials and content of each course, online virtual courses orders are NOT eligible for refund, cancellation or transfer.

Other Terms and Conditions:
Online training courses may NOT be transferred to another Participant. Participants have 2 weeks to access any virtual online course content. Participants have until the expiration date to access and complete any enduring material courses. Boston Children’s Hospital CE is not responsible for user technical difficulties including loss of internet, power outages, etc. 

Cancellation of Services
Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

Refund Policy
Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Social Worker

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston Children’s Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Boston Children’s Hospital maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 5.0 ACE CE continuing education credits.

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Physician Assistant

Boston Children’s Hospital has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 5.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 5.0 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients:

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.