Human Trafficking Awareness for Massage Therapists: Identification, Reporting, and Resources for Assistance

Course Description

Course Description:

The course will cover Florida Law Chapter 2019-152 requirements designed to educate massage therapists on human trafficking. The law was designed to increase reporting of suspected trafficking and assistance to victims through the Polaris Project and National Human Trafficking Hotline network of vetted, local assistance and support services.

This course will focus on awareness of human trafficking for massage therapists and provide information on how to identify possible trafficking victims, steps to report cases, and information about resources available to assist victims.

Human trafficking can be viewed as modern-day slavery and occurs in every state in the United States and around the world. The course will discuss definitions of human trafficking, statistics on incidence, and the identification of illicit massage venues that involve sex trafficking.

The course will review techniques traffickers use to force, defraud, and coerce individuals into slavery, and to keep victims captive, and the traumatic effects of trafficking.

This training will provide strategies to identify the indicators of labor and sexual trafficking, report cases to access law enforcement, criminal justice, and community resources for victim assistance and ongoing support.