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.

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 and build public trust.
Experienced faculty with diverse 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

Applications from Chief Executives working with ECM HTTFs will be prioritized, but all are welcome to apply

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.

Beyond the Basics is a free, in-person, 3-day advanced human trafficking training taking place in Omaha, NE. 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.