Erasing their Possibilities: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
This training aims to deepen participants' understanding of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) while providing tangible strategies to navigate this complex issue.
The training will explore factors contributing to CSEC, including societal attitudes, institutional responses, and media contributions. Participants will explore the various forms of CSEC, the tactics employed by perpetrators (both the buyers and the sellers), and effective forms of outreach and intervention.
The presenter will explore the impact on victims and touch on the necessary elements of a trauma-informed and healing-centered response.
She will also articulate how such painful and complicated experiences echo into adulthood- often causing a lifetime of trauma. The training will also equip participants with practical techniques and strategies to support survivors of CSEC.
The presenter will also illuminate the unique challenges and complexities that multidisciplinary responders may encounter when working with CSEC survivors and provide you with the tools to navigate them effectively. She will help you translate theory into practice through case studies and interactive discussions, allowing you to implement these trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches in your work.
Objectives:
-To deepen the participants’ understanding of CSEC
-To understand the culture in which CSEC is not just possible, but supportive
-To explore effective methods of intervention and buyer deterrence
-To talk about the impact of CSEC on survivors
-To discuss the power (and sometimes difficulty) of collaboration
-To hear one person’s incredible journey
Meet your instructor:
Myra Strand, MA, CA, is the co-owner and advocate diplomat of Strand² Squared Solutions, where she provides training, education, and technical assistance. All of her services are available in person, virtually, and on-demand. Since its inception in 2017, Strand Squared Solutions has worked with thousands of responding professionals.
Myra began working with people who live with trauma in 1995. She has experience working with youth who have complex trauma and/or serious mental illness, people with developmental disabilities, youth in competing war zones, offenders, with death notification, and with victims of all crime types. Myra places a special emphasis on holistic health as it relates to organizational trauma.
For nearly 10 years, Myra taught issues of violence, sexuality and applied intersectionality for over a decade at Northern Arizona University and/or Coconino Community College. She has also taught social justice classes in the Detention Center working on issues of violence and healing
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