Trainings
Trainings
3:00pm - 4:00pm ET / 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT
Are you tired of navigating complex human trafficking cases with limited resources? Join us for "The Traffick Report: Conversation with the Field," an online discussion held on the last Wednesday of each month. Professionals from various disciplines, including law enforcement, victim services, and medical professionals, come together to share insight, challenges, and successes in the fight against human trafficking.
AEquitas Online
Calling all prosecutors! Connect with AEquitas Attorney Advisors and your peers on the third Thursday of every month at 2:00PM ET to examine prosecution strategies, emerging issues, promising practices, and more.
Office Hours is an uninhibited, unrecorded conversation between all registrants. It is NOT a webinar. Take advantage of a chance to meet our experts, converse, brainstorm, and share best practices and challenges in a national conversation.
AEquitas Online
March 5, 2025: 8:45am – 4:15pm MT; March 6, 2025: 9:00am – 12:30pm MT.
Violent criminals routinely escape justice by intimidating the witnesses to their crimes. Intimidation can exist passively in a community; however, it also can involve explicit or implicit threats or complex, orchestrated efforts to prevent witnesses from participating in the criminal justice process. When intimidation is successful, criminal behavior escapes the purview of law enforcement, and offenders are emboldened to continue to perpetrate crimes unchecked by the criminal justice system. Prosecutors, law enforcement, and advocates must do more to keep victims safe, hold offenders accountable, and build trust with the communities they serve.
Join us for the National Convening on Witness Intimidation on March 5-6, 2025, in Denver, CO. This multidisciplinary event will bring together professionals from around the United States to discuss best and promising practices for preventing and responding to witness intimidation. Specific topics will include assessing fear of retaliation vs. credible threats to the safety of a witness, community engagement, case analysis when intimidation occurs in human trafficking cases, the effective use of intimidation evidence, and outlining a witness protection toolkit.
This event is free to attend. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Do not make any travel plans prior to official notice of acceptance.
This event is supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-00708-JAGP awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions discussed during this event are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
AEquitas & the Denver District Attorney’s Office
2:00 - 3:30pm ET / 11am - 12:30pm PT
Forensic Genetic Genealogy (FGG) is an innovative method of DNA analysis that combines forensic analysis with traditional genealogy research. Investigative leads developed from this work assist law enforcement in identifying an unknown perpetrator or victim. This technique is exceptionally beneficial to resolving cold case violent crimes, in which other traditional leads have been exhausted.
Recognizing the value of this powerful investigative tool, the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) became the first federal program to allow FGG to be applied to criminal investigations using federal funding. Since 2019, SAKI grantees have leveraged FGG testing to support hundreds of investigations resulting in the identification of previously unknown perpetrators, including serial offenders. As many of these SAKI cases are now proceeding to trial, prosecutors are having to navigate the nuances of FGG in a legal setting.
In this presentation, the presenters will provide an overview of FGG, evidentiary challenges for prosecutors and investigators, including surreptitious collection of DNA from suspects, affidavits for search warrants and discovery requests implicating FGG, managing developing issues at pre-trial hearings, and trial testimony associated with FGG investigative leads.
This project was supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-00708-JAGP and by Grant No. 2019-MU-BX-K011, both awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
AEquitas Online
The Leadership Institute to Combat Human Trafficking is expected to be delivered in April 2025, exact date and location pending. This training is a unique opportunity for elected and executive-level leadership from police and prosecutor agencies to develop and refine human trafficking responses that promote public safety.
Experienced faculty with a variety of subject-matter expertise will facilitate peer-to-peer conversations around the following topics:
• Organizational infrastructure, resources, policies, and practices to more effectively combat sex and labor trafficking;
• Integration of survivor voices to develop, implement, and sustain promising practices that are victim-centered and trauma-informed;
• Effective communication of the realities of human trafficking;
• Minimizing barriers to victim disclosure
Audience: Executive level police and prosecutors with significant decision-making power over policies, staffing, and allocation of resources
Future trainings: October 2025 and June 2026
AEquitas DC
The National Institute on Labor Trafficking in the Illicit Cannabis Industry (NILTIC) is a free 2.5-day highly interactive course designed to challenge prosecutors and law enforcement to re-evaluate their approach to identifying, investigating, and prosecuting labor trafficking within illicit industries and forced criminality. Practical strategies will be explored by taking a deep dive into lessons learned in the illicit cannabis industry. The curriculum, facilitated by a multidisciplinary faculty, is grounded in evidence-based prosecution and trauma-informed investigative practices, equipping prosecutors and investigators with the skills and strategies to hold offenders accountable regardless of offender tactics intended to obfuscate criminal wrongdoing within illicit industries.
All allowable travel expenses will be covered for accepted participants of this training.
Application Deadline is March 3, 2025
AEquitas DC
Identifying, investigating, and prosecuting labor trafficking requires a collaborative approach. This training is a free, in-person, 3-day multidisciplinary training will provide opportunities for law enforcement, prosecutors, victim service providers, and allied partners to engage with diverse faculty with subject-matter expertise to develop collaborative strategies to improve your jurisdiction’s response to labor trafficking. This training will use case studies, interactive activities, and small group discussions to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and partnerships to better support victims and hold offenders accountable.
Audience: Multi-disciplinary stakeholders
Future trainings: February 2026 and August 2026
AEquitas DC
Beyond the Basics is a free, in-person, 3-day advanced human trafficking training taking place in San Diego, CA. This OVC funded event is offered as part of the OVC Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking training series for ECM task forces. The highly interactive and scenario-based training will provide innovative, practical, and trauma-informed strategies to enhance victim-centered responses, and offender-focused investigations and prosecutions. This training is for law enforcement, prosecutors, and analysts who are members of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team and of have experience investigating and prosecuting human trafficking.
Audience: Sworn law enforcement, analysts, and prosecutors
Future trainings: April 2026
AEquitas DC
Our staff are available to provide customized training related to sexual violence, domestic and intimate partner violence, stalking, human trafficking, child abuse, elder abuse, and witness intimidation. These trainings can be on-site or web-based and be tailored to specific jurisdictions and scope.
Submit RequestWe’ve archived descriptions of past trainings to showcase the broad range of our course offerings that can often be repeated on request.
View Past TrainingsFor past webinar recordings, please see our Resources.
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