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Human Trafficking: The Emerging Role of Occupational Therapy Practitioners

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Live Webinar

Human Trafficking: The Emerging Role of Occupational Therapy Practitioners

*NEW* Date due to Hurricane Milton

Monday, May 19, 2025
7 pm (CT) | 8 pm (ET)
$30 | 1.5 Contact Hour, 0.15 CEUs, 1.75 PDUs

Educational level: Introductory 

Category 1: Occupational Therapy Service Delivery

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This webinar will be held on Zoom

WARNING: The information provided in this course can be upsetting. This course also contains images that may be disturbing. 

The International Labour Organization estimates that there are approximately 49.6 million victims of human trafficking at any given time worldwide. Human traffickers prey on people of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities and exploit them for their own benefit and profit.  OT practitioners have an opportunity to increase awareness and combat human trafficking. 

This course presents the most current information on human trafficking based on the United Nations 3P Protocol, United States law, and occupational therapy approaches.
Foundational information includes human trafficking statistics, types of trafficking, biopsychosocial deficits found in trafficked persons, research sources, and current occupational therapy and multi-disciplinary intervention approaches. These components provide the base to define potential occupational therapy programing in this emerging field. 

Target Audience: Occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, occupational therapy students
This occupational therapy continuing education course uses the following instructional methods: visual aides (ie slides), discussion board, guided note taking, and learning, and practice opportunities.
Content disclosure: This course does not exclusively focus on any specific product or service.

Presented by:
Toni Thompson, DrOT, OTR/L 
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Benefits of this course
  • Define 2 components of occupational therapy actions in anti-trafficking efforts. 

  • Explain the scope of trafficking based on the 3 points of the United Nations 3P Protocol.

  • Discuss 5 ways to fight trafficking in small, every-day actions. 

What OTs and OTAs are saying about this course

"Very knowledgeable speaker. I could feel her passion."

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"I feel like this is a topic that we need to know more about so we can implement into practice when needed."

OT Course Participant

"This was very informative and a topic I am not as knowledgeable about . Very interesting!!"

OT Course Participant
Instructor bioS
Toni Thompson, DrOT, OTR/L
Aspire OT Instructor

Toni Thompson graduated from the University of Illinois in 1975, and completed her DrOT at Nova Southeastern University in 2017.  Her work experience includes the Peace Corps/Ecuador; the National Cerebral Palsy Association in Caracas, Venezuela; adult mental health in FL and IL; and some SNF.  While at Shriners Hospitals for Children-Tampa for 22 years, she developed various programs, became certified in NDT-Pediatrics and SIPT.   She has presented at multiple state, national, and international OT, prosthetic-orthotic, World Federation of Occupational Therapist, and human trafficking conferences.  Keynote addresses include the India Golden Jubilee in Kerala India and the Pan Asian Student Congress in Malaysia.  She authored three chapters in cultural competence works, over 40 professional articles in OT and orthotics-prosthetics magazines.  Besides presenting a pediatric splinting continued education workshop for 10 years, she fabricated over 10,000 pediatric splints.  She developed the first CEU about human trafficking directed to OT practitioners. Currently, she mentors doctoral students on trafficking and cultural humility capstones, and serves as an instructor for TherapyEd exam preparation services. 

DISCLOSURES

Financial: Toni is compensated as an Aspire OT instructor. 
Non Financial:  Toni does not have any non-financial disclosures.
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Course Outline

 0 - 5 minutes

 6-10 minutes 

11-20 minutes

21-40 minutes

41-55 minutes

55-60 minutes



Introduction and Objectives 

What is trafficking?

Biopsychosocial deficits / therapeutic approaches

Laws and 3P protocol of the United Nations

Potential OT actions

Wrap up and questions
Completion Requirements
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In order to receive the certificate of completion, participants must meet ALL of the following criteria:
  • Payment of the course in full
  • Attend webinar in its entirety
  • Complete Attestation of Attendance
  • View course videos in entirety
  • Pass the course exam with a score of 70% or greater
  • Complete the Post Course Evaluation
Please note that no credit or certificate will be issued unless all criteria is met.  Partial credit will not be issued.  
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No refunds will be issued after a course has been attended for more than 30 minutes.  Partial credit will not be issued.  

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Web courses will remain available to learners for 1 year. No refunds will be available for web courses that have been attended or viewed for greater than 30 minutes. In the event of a refund, the learner will be unenrolled in the course immediately upon issuance of a refund. No refunds will be issued for any course in which a certificate has been issued.  
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Course approval ID# 07437
This Distance Learning-Interactive course is offered at 0.15 CEUs (Introductory level, OT Service Delivery)
The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
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Florida Board of Occupational Therapy

Effective 11/15/2023

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