On-Demand CE Training
ODL 408: Human Trafficking in Practice: Survivor Perspectives, Identification, and Coordinated Response
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit for an asynchronous course. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.
Please note: This on-demand webinar is a replay of a live CE event. The format reflects the original presentation and may include live Q&A, transitions, and intermittent audio/visual fluctuations typical of a live recording.
3.5 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:
Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 3.5 Clinical Continuing Education credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 3.5 Contact hours
Psychologists
APA – 3.5 CE credits
Counselors 3.5 Contact hours
NBCC ACEP – 3.5 Contact hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 3.5 Contact hours
Addiction Professionals
NAADAC – 3.5 Contact hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 3.5 Contact hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 3.5 CE Contact hours
Created On: 5/6/2026
Target Audience:
This course is targeted for social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses and case managers.
Counselor Skill Groups:
5. Documentation
6. Case Management
Overview:
This training uses a survivor-informed and multidisciplinary lens to strengthen professionals’ ability to recognize, respond to, and help prevent human trafficking. Rachel D. Fischer MSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, PI, PPO will deliver a session, “A Survivor’s Perspective: Multidisciplinary Approach to Fighting Human Trafficking,” focused on practical, cross-system response strategies that support victim safety, improve identification, and strengthen coordination among healthcare, behavioral health, advocacy, and justice partners. In the second session, Rachel C. Thomas, MEd, will provide survivor-educator insights on prevention, resilience-building, and protective factors—especially in relation to recruitment dynamics and youth-focused prevention approaches.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the session, the participant will be able to:
- Differentiate human trafficking types (sex and labor trafficking).
- Identify trafficking risk factors and behavioral/environmental indicators across practice settings.
- Apply trauma-informed, survivor-centered engagement strategies that prioritize safety, autonomy, and cultural humility.
- Integrate ethical and legal decision-making into case response, including confidentiality limits, informed consent, documentation considerations, and mandatory reporting requirements as applicable to role and jurisdiction.
- Develop a multidisciplinary response and prevention plan that includes referral pathways.
Presenters:
Rachel D. Fischer MSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, PI, PPO, Forensic Nurse Examiner, Legal Nurse Consultant, Educator
A native of Detroit, MI, Rachel is a survivor, leader, and a pioneer in the fight against human trafficking. She has a BS in Nursing and specializes in human trafficking research & rescue and finding missing children.
Rachel is an ER RN who specializes in adult and pediatric forensic nursing. She began her speaking career in 2013 when she published her autobiography, Taking Back the Pen, and shares her story with various audiences.
Rachel collaborates with several anti-trafficking agencies, both statewide and international, to combat sex trafficking. Rachel has been to several countries doing research and undercover mission work to collect intelligence from pimps and trafficked victims, and has undertaken several rescue operations in retrieval of missing children, many of whom have been in the United States.
As a lived experience expert, Rachel consults with governmental and non-governmental agencies to formulate the best plan of action to fight sex trafficking on both the demand and the supply side. She trains parents and students on social media trends and how to keep kids safe in the digital age. Her knowledge will awaken and broaden your current knowledge base to highlight the difference you can make in the phenomena of trafficking in your community. She will discuss how you can be a part of helping to meet the needs of these victims and other victims of violence that are not being cared for properly in order to bring justice to families and hold predators and offenders accountable.
Rachel C. Thomas, MEd
Rachel Thomas is a graduate of UCLA, a presidential appointee to the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, and a personal survivor of human trafficking. She has extensive experience teaching, training, curriculum writing, public speaking and mentoring.
As director of Sowers Education Group, she and a team work tirelessly to sow seeds of human trafficking awareness and survivor empowerment. Rachel has educated and inspired a wide range of audiences including teens, social service providers, churches, teachers, college students, and law enforcement. She is the lead author of the nation’s most widely used sex trafficking intervention curriculum Ending The Game® (Journal Of Women and Criminal Justice, 2021) as well as The Cool Aunt Series, a sex trafficking prevention course for teens.
Since 2012, Rachel and the Sowers Team have reached over 150,000 live audience members and millions more through numerous media outlets including CNN, HLN, The T.D. Jakes Show, The New York Times Upfront Magazine and ABC’s Newsmakers. Rachel was honored by Congressman Ed Royce of California’s 39th district and Los Angeles Supervisor Don Knabe for her leadership and trafficking prevention efforts. www.RachelCThomas.com