Two Cities to choose from:

OKC Conference - April 13th

Tulsa Conference - April 14th

This is not a promo awareness event or a fundraiser with a bunch of non-profit organizations pulling on your heart strings and asking for money. This is a serious training conference on the issues of human trafficking for professionals to get their CEU's and learn how to identify possible trafficking victims, how to report, how to interdict, how to care for them, how to get justice for them and how to get your Agency, Church or Organization involved in making a difference right here in Oklahoma.

Victims of human trafficking are people forced or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. Labor trafficking here in the US involves foreign nationals caught up in a variety of situations that encompass individuals in domestic service and farming, to larger scale operations such as sweatshops, construction, landscaping, restaurants and hotels, as well as major multinational corporations. The growing use of visa fraud to bring foreign nationals into the US legally and then exploit them through staffing agencies or a variety of corporate contracts, subjecting the workers to unsafe living conditions and sub-standard pay scales has the Department of Labor taking serious actions to expose the injustice.

Sex trafficking is the most profitable regarding the illegal trade in people, and involves all forms of sexual exploitation including prostitution, pornography, striping, escort, bride trafficking and the commercial sexual abuse of children. Child sex trafficking is the kidnapping, abduction, recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a minor for the purposes of a commercial sex act. US citizen and foreign national children are exploited in the commercial sex industry through forced or coerced prostitution, stripping, or pornography.

Conference Format

The conference format is designed to provide maximum detailed information through an exceptional host of field experienced professionals for the opportunity of significant awareness, discussion, and involvement by conference attendees concerning the many facets of human trafficking within U.S. boarders and the state of Oklahoma.

Opening Night

Tuesday April 12th in Oklahoma City is a special event night sponsored by OU Social Work Department. This is open to the public combining a new feature film followed by a panel of experts discussion with Q & A.

Wednesday April 13th in Tulsa is a special event night sponsored by the NSU Social Work Department. This is open to the public highlighting a new feature film followed by a survivor telling her story of being trafficking in Oklahoma.

Conference Day

National & local speakers will bring to bear the unimaginable reality of labor and sex trafficking and what is occurring right here in America, the heartland and specifically - Oklahoma. We will begin with an opening session detailing the various types of human trafficking that occur here, who the traffickers are and how traffickers recruit and market their victims. You will hear the shocking personal testimony of child victim Theresa Flores who was secretly trafficked at the age of 15 while still living at home and attending school and church.

Five tracks of disciplinary training will be offered:

  1. General public / Faith community response and activism.
  2. Law enforcement professional training for investigation, case building and prosecution.
  3. Attorney and immigration training on specifics such as certification and T-visa’sand prosecution.
  4. Service providers professional training for victim identification, intake & services procedures, counseling protocols and treatment models.
  5. Behavioral Health providers professional training on complex trauma care, shelter and facility development and treatment procedures.

Wrap-up will include case studies, group collaborative discussion and a call to action.

Conference Objectives