About this Event
Event Overview
Join Eden’s Farm in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh for a full-day human trafficking symposium featuring perspectives from prosecution, law enforcement, trauma psychology, relational case management, and lived experience experts.
Attendees will hear from professionals working across different areas of human trafficking prevention, investigation, prosecution, and survivor support. Lunch will be provided, and the day will conclude with a multidiciplinary panel discussion featuring subject-matter experts.
Agenda
8:30–9:00 a.m. — Doors Open and Registration
9:00–9:15 a.m. — Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15–11:15 a.m. — Human Trafficking Investigative Approaches and Prosecution
Summer Carroll, Assistant Chief Deputy Attorney General
Jim Hindinger, Supervisory Special Agent
Human Trafficking Section, Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
11:15–11:30 a.m. — Break
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on Survivors
Rachel N. Seamans, PsyD
Carlow University
12:30–1:00 p.m. — Lunch Provided
1:00–2:00 p.m. — Relational Case Management: A Relationship-Centered Model of Survivor Services
Eden’s Farm
Eden’s Farm will present the Relational Case Management model shared during a parallel event at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 70. The presentation will explore how Eden’s Farm uses long-term, relationship-centered support when serving survivors of human trafficking.
2:00–2:15 p.m. — Break
2:15–3:45 p.m. — Multidisciplinary Panel Discussion and Q&A
A multidisciplinary panel will bring together professional expertise and lived experience to discuss human trafficking response, survivor support, collaboration, and opportunities for improving services.
3:45–4:00 p.m. — Closing Remarks
Location
Cathedral of Learning
Floor 20, Room 2017
University of Pittsburgh
4200 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260
From Awareness to Accountibility: A Symposium on Human Trafficking is in partnership with Eden's Farm and The University of Pittsburgh's School of Social Work.
This event is sponsored by the Webb Endowed Fund in the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work.
Event venue & nearby stays
Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States
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