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.

 

Contact Hours: 2
Text Course Format: Text
Target Audience:
Instructional Level: Beginner

Accreditation Information:

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Course Outline:

  • National and Florida Statistics
  • Human Trafficking Definition
  • Effects of Human Trafficking on Victims
  • House Bill 851, Chapter 2019-152
  • Identifying Possible Victims
  • Assistance to Victims
  • Reporting Human Trafficking
  • Identifying Suspicious Massage Venues and Employment Sites

Course Goals & Objectives:

Professional Objectives:

  1. Define human trafficking and the effects on victims.
  2. List the indicators for identification of possible human trafficking victims.
  3. Discuss the steps to report possible cases of human trafficking to access human trafficking support networks.
  4. Identify strategies to assist human trafficking victims to access resources for assistance and support, including Florida Law Chapter 2019-152.
  5. Discuss awareness, prevention, and advocacy to protect massage therapists and clients from human trafficking in illicit massage venues.

Disclosures:

Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).

Target Audience: Massage Therapists

Instructional Level: Beginner

Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 70% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved

Personnel Disclosure:

Financial – Herica Torres is contracted by Elite Learning. She did not receive payment from HomeCEU for the presentation of this course.

Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.

Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service

Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.

Authors:

Herica M. Torres, BSN, MSN, PhD

Ms. Torres is a naturalized citizen from Colombia, South America, who, after working many years as a respiratory therapist, came to the United States to seek a professional nursing degree. She completed her BSN and Master in Nursing degrees from the University of South Alabama. She is currently the simulation director at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing and is pursuing nursing doctoral studies at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Her career focus has been in global health nursing. In addition to her life experiences in Colombia, she has taken students to Peru for clinical field experiences and has attended multiple global health conferences.

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