LEARNING AND TRAINING
NSN Training Institute
The NSN is pleased to offer ongoing trainings that build meaningful survivor engagement in the movement.
Our training goals include:
- empowering survivors through skills, mentoring, and professional development;
- building allies’ and organizations’ capacity to participate in healthy, mutual collaborations with survivors engaged in movement leadership;
- modeling survivor-led movement practices to build our sector’s capacity to effectively prevent and respond to human trafficking.
Different trainings are open to different audiences. Please check the description before registering to see whether a training is:
- NSN members only;
- For survivors of trafficking and people engaged in informal or precarious work;*
- Open to all, including our professional allies who do not have lived experience.
*We open our non-member survivor trainings to people engaged in informal or precarious work as part of our recognition that development and empowerment of people who are at statistically increased risk of trafficking is violence prevention.
Upcoming Trainings
The Training Institute is pausing public offerings for all of March and most of April to provide intensive capacity-building for our members. We’ll be back soon with more public webinars!
Past Trainings
What if we practiced Radical Nonjudgment? (a panel discussion on harm reduction and commercial sex with advocates Emi Koyama, Rose Kalemba, Sinnamon Love, and Chibundo Egwuatu) – VIEW RECORDING (Español)
“Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience” is a framework and assessment for measuring and increasing lived experience leadership. Access the transcript and recording here: Launch Event
On January 18, the NSN hosted a panel discussion with authors of “Care, Self-Determination, and Safety” – our publication outlining our approach to human trafficking prevention. View the highlight document here: HIGHLIGHTS or the full document here: FULL DOC
On October 26, 2022, the NSN was delighted to host a training on the Four Parts of Accountability for NSN members, friends, and allies. Bringing together movement leaders from across the country, we were honored to have Mia Mingus join us to begin this necessary dialogue about what it means to take accountability for harm caused. For more info on this model: LINK
This training offers an overview for interpreters and organizations that work with interpreters on a trauma-informed approach when interpreting for survivors. LINK
This webinar was offered in March and again in May in partnership with FreeFrom. After attending, one survivor emailed to report she had updated her “about me” page to say she no longer accepts free speaking engagements and offering instructions on how to hire her. SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT FOR THE WIN!
Other Trainings
The NSN is also available for conference presentations or customized trainings for organizations looking to build capacity to work with survivors as clients and colleagues and engage in meaningful, evidence-informed anti-trafficking work.
Our training clients include: ATEST (Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking), Human Trafficking Legal Center, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, VALOR US, and other state and national nonprofits. For more information, reach out to the Survivor Leadership Program Manager.