As anti-trafficking discourse continues to escalate in both news and social media outlets, many educators struggle to balance the narrative between sensationalized statistics and the requirement of many states to teach trafficking prevention during sexual health. This training will highlight history to sensitively destabilize some of the moral panic aspects of the anti-trafficking conversation while taking a nuanced look at the lived reality of youth in the sex trade. Lastly, this workshop will conclude with concrete resources, toolkits, and victim/survivor led research, so that educators and advocates working with anti-trafficking curricula can confidently address the complexities of this multifaceted issue using a social justice approach. 

This training event is intended to support school district staff in meeting legislative requirements for comprehensive sexual health education as described in RCW 28A.300.475, and sex trafficking awareness and prevention education as described in RCW 28A.320.168.