Essential Human Trafficking Training - LA

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Overview

Health care providers may be the first—and sometimes the only—professionals who interact with human trafficking survivors (NCBI/PMC; HEAL Trafficking). When you know what to look for, you can make all the difference for someone.

Learn how to identify potential trafficking survivors and offer compassionate care at a special CHA Hollywood Presbyterian session of Essential Human Trafficking Training in Health Care. Choose the day that works best for you. There is no cost to staff members.

This course is designed for care providers, social workers, health care administrators (reception, patient check-in and check-out) and any personnel who interact with patients.

We’ll start with a brief overview of these crimes and their health connections. You’ll then dive deeper into the specific health impacts of trafficking and learn about tools to help identify patients who may be affected. In addition, you’ll study the provider’s role in response and referrals. Together with colleagues, you’ll explore case studies and brainstorm policies and procedures that could be used in your own setting.

Human Trafficking: A Social and Racial Justice Issue

Through a range of learning methods, you’ll gain deeper insight into the social and racial justice aspects of this issue. While human trafficking crimes trap people of all genders, cultures, races and backgrounds, they unduly affect people of color, LGBTQI youth and other marginalized groups.

During the workshop, you’ll hear inclusive language and learn frameworks that will empower you to understand and take into account victims’ well-being. You’ll also gain skills in assessing people across different backgrounds, inclusive of all skin types and pigments.

CEUs

Continuing education units offered for this program:

SHRM PDCs: Hospital Association of Southern California is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities. This program is valid for 3.50 PDCs for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
BRN: This activity has been approved for 3 contact hours of continuing education for Registered Nurses by Hospital Association of Southern California, an approved BRN provider (Provider CEP-970).
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits: 3 CME credit hours
Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) Credits: 3 credit hours
Social Work Approved Continuing Education (ACE): 3 credit hours
Interprofessional Continuing Education Credits (IPCE): 3 credit hours

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Approved Continuing Education
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Arizona State University is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Board’s (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. Arizona State University maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course will receive 3 credit hours of continuing education credits.

Program Details

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Objectives

Following this course, you’ll be able to:

Recognize the red flags of human trafficking in a clinical or community setting.
Know what to look for, what questions to ask and how to create a place of safety for trafficking victims and survivors.
Understand how health care and community health professionals make decisions in human trafficking cases, and brainstorm ways to make decisions.
Apply professional, ethical, sensitive and trauma-informed approaches when working with trafficked patients.
Advocate for survivors by helping them get needed services and resources.

Agenda

Workshop Agenda

(may be subject to change)

8:45 – 9 a.m. Check-in and refreshments
9 – 9:10 a.m. Welcome by Teri Hollingsworth, Vice President, Human Resources and Education Services, HASC
9:10 – 10:25 a.m. Introductions; Human Trafficking 101: An Overview 9:5
10:25 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Human Trafficking in Health Care, Part 1
12 – 12:05 p.m. Break
12:05 – 12:50 p.m. Human Trafficking in Health Care, Part 2
12:50 – 1 p.m.: Closing remarks and evaluation

Faculty

Speakers

Samantha L. Calvin, PhD(c), MHI, MBA

Samantha Calvin, coleader, Essential Human Trafficking Training

An anti-trafficking advocate and leader in Arizona and the United States, Samantha has used education and training to debunk the myths around human trafficking. She is active in community-focused work and research to understand how the issue of human trafficking is evolving.

Over the past ten years with Arizona State University’s (ASU) Edson College of Nursing and Innovation, Samantha developed the Edson Human Trafficking Awareness Program, which she currently oversees. This program focuses on helping health care providers and community members to become more aware of what human trafficking looks like, ask better questions when working with potential victims and survivors, and know what resources to provide. Currently, Samantha is expanding this work to include a program for K-12 educators.

She has also served as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice. Samantha regularly speaks at ground rounds, conferences and panels throughout Arizona.

Tejal “TJ” Patel, Esq., CPHRM

Tejal Patel, Esq., coleader, Essential Human Trafficking Training

A licensed attorney and insurance broker with over 20 years of experience, TJ specializes in crafting innovative solutions to complex health care risks and legal challenges in California, and advocating for those without voices, such as victims of human trafficking.

Over the past eight years, TJ has served as associate risk management counsel for Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles. In this role, she has led the development and implementation of multidisciplinary human trafficking trainings for clinical providers and hospital support staff. She continues overseeing the trainings and customizes each to include focused discussion about who traffickers target and how, red flags often displayed by those being trafficked, and appropriate trauma-informed care response by providers.

Beyond her health care role, TJ advocates for anti-trafficking initiatives through grassroots efforts and partnerships with pioneering organizations such as iEmpathize. She believes in the transformative power of education and the vital role of health care providers in addressing human trafficking.

In support of improving patient care, Arizona State University is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health care team.

Brochure Registration Information

Registration

The Essential Human Trafficking Training sessions are free for CHA Hollywood Presbyterian staff. To register, please use the green button above.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

Registration deadline: Jan. 30, 2026.
You may be photographed or videotaped at the event. HASC reserves the right to use these images and video in promotional, marketing, educational and other materials.

SPECIAL NEEDS OR QUESTIONS

For ADA assistance or general registration questions, contact [email protected].

Sponsored by Arizona State University Edson College of Nursing and Innovation and HASC.

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