Online Training and Webinars

trainings, slideshows, and webinars for service providers and task forces featuring MSRP’s work

Please contact us if you’d like to request an on-site or live online training.

See our teaching resources page for more resources and for online discussion questions.

Human Trafficking Among Homeless Youth

Homeless youth are especially vulnerable to both sex and labor trafficking. We conducted interviews with 641 homeless youth in Covenant House shelters around the US and Canada and found that nearly 20% of them had been trafficked in their lifetimes. The full report provides our findings, including information about the economic factors that push young people into dangerous work situations and recommendations for service providers and legislation. The video below provides a short summary of the findings, along with a four-point blueprint for preventing and responding to trafficking among homeless youth.

Design and Limitations of Research on Human Trafficking

The webinar below was hosted by HEAL trafficking network, which is an organization dedicated to using a public health lens to better understand, prevent, and respond to human trafficking globally. The webinar focuses on a study conducted among homeless youth across ten cities in the US and Canada. The webinar focuses on the various aspects of conducting and sharing the research. It is aimed at audiences of researchers and service providers who are more interested in the research side of understanding human trafficking. Can be paired with reading the original report or with the video above.

Over-represented and under-served

When people think of human trafficking, they typically imagine its victims to be young cisgender girls exploited in the sex trade. However, boys and men, people working in the drug trade, and LGBTQ youth, and youth with a history of foster care are much more likely to be affected by trafficking than most people recognize. As a result, we are not providing them the trauma-informed specialized services that they need and deserve. This slideshow (no sound but word heavy) explains our findings from the study of trafficking among homeless youth relevant to these over-represented and under-served populations.