LIVE VIRTUAL: Healing Systems, Healing Futures: Collaboration in Today’s Healthcare Landscape (January 22, 2026)

Overview

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

Networking Opportunities: Connect with peers, thought leaders, and experts across healthcare, policy, and advocacy to share experiences, ideas, and strategies.

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.

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

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.

Social Worker

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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. 

 
Rolidel Czekajlo   Jatnna Gomez, LBSW Director of Community Engagement and Special Programs at the University of Maryland SAFE Center for Survivors of Human Trafficking, she brings more than a decade of experience working with vulnerable populations, including victims of violence and youth involved in the justice system. She has worked with various victim services, public health, healthcare, and youth enrichment organizations to provide programming, advocacy, education, crisis intervention, and program leadership.  
Josie Heyano, LCSW A Deg Xinag Athabascan woman from Alaska and a nationally recognized leader in anti-trafficking and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) advocacy. A survivor herself, she founded Signify Consulting, an Indigenous- and survivor-led organization providing holistic therapy and consulting focused on trafficking and MMIR prevention. With over a decade in nonprofit leadership and clinical social work, she brings a decolonized, culturally grounded approach to supporting survivors of exploitation and systemic violence.

Abigail Judge, Ph.D. Founder and Co-Director of Boston Human Exploitation Advocacy Team (HEAT), the sole organization in Massachusetts of its kind dedicated to women at the intersection of commercial sexual exploitation and substance use. Dr. Judge is a clinical and forensic psychologist and Harvard faculty whose expertise spans street outreach to expert witness testimony throughout the country. 


John Pickett

Aziz Rahman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Dr. Rahman is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in research, teaching, and community development. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TAMIU, he supported the Center to Counter Human Trafficking (CCHT) in identifying victims of human trafficking in South Texas and developing training curricula for healthcare and education professionals. His scholarly work focuses on refugee integration, policing, ethnic violence, terrorism, and gig work.

Stacy Reynolds, MD, MBA Division Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center and Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital. She is a practicing emergency physician and pediatric emergency physician. Dr. Reynolds is also the Medical Director for the Atrium Health Human Trafficking Advocacy Team and leads the Advocate Health Enterprise Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, advancing systemwide identification and response efforts.

Kiricka Yarbough Smith, MSW Founder and CEO of KYS Consulting Group. With more than 20 years of experience, she has led statewide anti-trafficking initiatives in North Carolina and advised federal agencies on culturally responsive, survivor-centered strategies. She also provides nationwide training and guidance emphasizing cultural inclusion, intersectionality, and community-driven solutions.
   

 

Thursday, January 22, 2026
10:00 – 10:15 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks Amanda Stylianou, PhD, LCSW
10:15 – 10:45 AM Keynote Address Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH
10:50 – 11:50 AM PanelModerator: Shamere McKenzie Panelists: Anna Pastor John Pickett Stacy Reynolds, MD, MBA
12:00 – 1:00 PM Morning Workshops (Choose One) Workshop A: Nani Cuadrado, MSPAS, PA-C Workshop B: Abigail Judge, Ph.D.
1:00 – 2:00 PM Optional Lunch & Learn Networking Sessions Labor Trafficking: Simphiwe Maqubela Youth Exploitation: Rolidel Czekajlo Advancing Equity: Jatnna Gomez, LBSW
2:00 – 2:45 PM Fireside Chat with Survivor Leader Josie Heyano, LMSW in conversation with Nani Cuadrado, MSPAS, PA-C
2:55 – 3:55 PM Afternoon Workshops (Choose One) Workshop C: Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH Workshop D: Crystal Bennett, LMSW and Kiricka Yarbough Smith, MSW
4:00 – 4:30 PM Closing Address Rhonelle Bruder, MSc

 

Disclosures

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 CME 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.

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: 

Name, Degree	Entity Name, or None
Jose Alfaro	None
Crystal Bennett, LMSW	None
Rhonelle Bruder, MSc	None
Nani Cuadrado, MSPAS, PA-C	None
Rolidel Czekajlo	None
Jatnna Gomez, LBSW	None
Josie Heyano, LCSW	None
Abigail Judge, Ph.D.	None
Simphiwe Maqubela	None
Stacy Reynolds, MD, MBA	None
Anna Pastor	None
John Pickett	None
Aziz Rahman, Ph.D.	None
Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH	None
Amanda Stylianou, PhD, LCSW	None
Shamere McKenzie	None
Kiricka Yarbough Smith, MSW	None

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