In this 90-minute training conducted by Carolyn Ouya, a Senior Training & Technical Assistance Specialist at FUTURES Workplace & Economics, you will gain knowledge of survivor post-trafficking employment needs. Topics will include barriers to employment connection, prioritizing survivor goals, employment readiness conversations, and elements of employment success. This training is meant for anti-trafficking service providers who are serving clients but have little knowledge of the particular barriers labor trafficking survivors face and how to help set them up for long-term success in the workplace.
1:33 – Learning Objectives
3:37 – What are your current employment or work readiness practices?
6:40 – Look at what the impact of violence and trauma is on access to education and employment opportunities.
7:31 – Employment challenges for labor trafficking survivors.
8:33 -Impacts of violence and trauma on education and training.
11:30 – Impact on employment
12:27 – What can Unemployment prep look like
17:11 – Survival Brain vs Learning Brain
18:36 – Video on Survival vs Learning Brain
19:29 – How Survival Brain shows up in Employment Support
21:06 – Trauma-informed Work Readiness
22:09 – Understanding Employability Skills
24:34 – Online Work Readiness Assessment explanation
26:07 – Current state of what vocational preparation looks like
27:43 – What do you think would make current work readiness training trauma-informed?
30:17 – Trauma-informed Work Readiness
32:58 – The components of a trauma-informed work readiness program
34:10 – Best Practices
35:20 – How to leverage resources and services
40:02 – How Futures can help you
41:38 – Q&A
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Topic(s): Case Management, Learning Basics
Resource Type: Event Recording
Date: March 31, 2022
