Heal Trafficking Train The Trainer Academy (October 23-24, 2025)

Course Overview:

The majority of trafficking survivors interact with health professionals while being trafficked. Yet, most providers have never been trained to recognize or respond to human trafficking. To change that, we need more professionals who not only understand trafficking, but are also equipped to teach others.

HEAL Trafficking’s Train the Trainer Academy was created to help fill this gap. Grounded in public health and trauma-informed approaches, the Academy equips health and allied professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver meaningful, survivor-centered training in their own communities and settings.

The course is based on a Train the Trainer model, which means we focus on both what you need to know and how to effectively teach it. You’ll build a strong foundation in trafficking-related content and gain practical strategies for delivering inclusive, engaging education to diverse learners.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for health care providers, public health professionals, behavioral health practitioners, social workers, educators, and others interested in advancing anti-trafficking education. While the content is presented through a health care lens, the Academy is open to participants across disciplines and sectors.

What to Expect

The Academy includes:

• A digital primer to help you prepare and reflect
• Two live, virtual training days featuring interactive workshops, small group collaboration, case discussions, and skill-building activities
• A digital workbook with curated resources to enhance your knowledge and training skills
• A group training presentation project, where you’ll apply what you’ve learned and receive feedback from faculty and peers
• Sessions led by a team of expert instructors and lived experience leaders, including a special alumni panel
• Opportunities to build connections across disciplines and join a growing network of anti-trafficking educators

Learning Objectives: 

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

1. Discuss core concepts related to human trafficking, including key definitions, relevant risk factors, and the role of healthcare providers in prevention and response
2. Apply trauma-informed, survivor-centered approaches when educating others about human trafficking
3. Use foundational strategies for effective, engaging, and inclusive teaching
4. Develop a group training presentation on a key human trafficking topic, incorporating real-time feedback and peer support
5. Deliver introductory human trafficking trainings tailored to their audience

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 10.0 ACE CE continuing education credits.

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.0 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 designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 10.0 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Course Directors Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of HEAL Trafficking, is an emergency physician at BWH and Harvard faculty. An expert in trafficking survivor wellbeing, she has advised global organizations and published on public health responses to trafficking.   Nani Cuadrado, MSPAS, PA-C HEAL Trafficking’s Director of Education. With 20 years in emergency medicine, she leads anti-trafficking initiatives, including developing response protocols and providing care for vulnerable populations, including trafficked minors.   Rahel Bosson, MD Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Center for Immigrant Health at MGH. She specializes in refugee and immigrant health, integrating mental health care and provider education.     Co-Instructors Evelyn Chumbow Advocacy and survivor leadership director at the Human Trafficking Legal Center. She is a survivor of child labor trafficking turned anti-trafficking activist and public speaker. Chumbow focuses her life’s work on ending modern-day slavery.     Simphiwe Maqubela (Sims) Survivor of labor trafficking and an advocate for social justice, inclusion, and anti-trafficking awareness. He currently works at Special Olympics New York and serves on the board of the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Central New York. Sims is passionate about using his lived experience to inspire change and empower others.

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
Hanni Stoklosa, MD, MPH	None
Rahel Bosson, MD	None
Nani Cuadrado, MSPAS, PA-C	None
Evelyn Chumbow	None
Simphiwe Maqubela	None

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