Description
June 13, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm | Virtual via Zoom
Description:
Human trafficking is a human rights violation that often goes unidentified, leaving survivors at risk of further exploitation. Please join us to learn more about the crime of human trafficking, the impact here in Maine, and how you can better support survivors in your community.
Objectives:
1. Understand the different types of human trafficking, risk factors, and intersections
2. Analyze potential indicators, dynamics and barriers, and approaches to assess-ment
3. Apply current reporting processes, safety planning, legal processes, and available resources to your work
Audience:
Behavioral health professionals
Presenter:
Hailey Virusso, LCSW | Hailey Virusso is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Director of Preble Street’s Anti-Trafficking Services (ATS). With over ten years of experience, Hailey has built her career on the development and provision of supports and services to best meet the needs of Maine’s most vulnerable communities, including systems-involved youth, youth experiencing homelessness, and survivors of human trafficking. Her work is framed in the understand-ing that these issues are intersectional, focusing on the systems that impact our communi-ty members’ access to safety and stability.
Contact hours:
3 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
3 contact hours for drug and alcohol counselors pending approval from the Maine Board of Drug and Alcohol Counselors.
3 Category I contact hours for Maine psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Maine Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
3 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
