Description
Beneath the Surface: The Reality of Human Trafficking in Healthcare
Human trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and the world is its marketplace. It is imperative that occupational therapists recognize signs and red flags of trafficking because they might encounter currently trafficked individuals in their practices. There is little evidence that exists for the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions with this population. This 2-hour course reviews signs of human trafficking, reporting, the role of healthcare professionals with trafficked victims and survivors, barriers to leaving a trafficker, and how you can help take action to end it. Every victim deserves to be noticed and rescued, expand your human-trafficking knowledge, and learn what you can do to help. This course is included with the Ethical Foundations Webinar Package.
Learning Outcomes
- Define labor trafficking.
- List the signs of human trafficking across a variety of occupational therapy settings and how to report to parents, educators, and law enforcement.
- Identify the role of medical professionals with survivors of human trafficking.
- Describe the barriers to leaving a trafficker.
- List how you can help take action to end human trafficking.
Target Audience: introductory- to advanced-level OTs, COTAs, and other healthcare professionals and educators
Note: While many professionals may benefit from the course content, we can only guarantee acceptance of continuing education credit as described in the following CEU section.
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Course Instructor: Danielle Baker
Learning Assessment: Objective post-test
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sensational Brain LLC is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. PD activity ID# 02062. This distance-learning, independent format is offered at 0.2 CEUs, Intermediate Level, Professional Issues. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Sensational Brain LLC is also an educational provider for CE Broker. This course code is 20-793657.
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♦ Questions? Email celeste@sensationalbrain.com.