Training and Technical Assistance

Rights4Girls is proud to partner with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) on the National Judicial Institute on Domestic Child Sex Trafficking. Rights4Girls worked with NCJFCJ to conceptualize, develop, and launch the Institute, and together, we have conducted a number of judicial trainings throughout the country educating more than 1,000 judges on how to identify and improve their response toward trafficked youth and ensure that no trafficked child is criminalized for their victimization. Our intensive two-and-a-half day judicial workshops explore the most current topics in victim behavior, identification, perpetrator dynamics, implicit bias, federal, state and tribal laws, and judicial decision-making within the context of child sex trafficking cases. As faculty experts, we educate delinquency, dependency/family, criminal, and tribal court judges on how to recognize child trafficking victims in their courtrooms so that youth may be afforded the services they need, instead of being routed into the justice system as perpetrators.

We’ve recently expanded these trainings to create the National Multi-Disciplinary Institute on Child Sex Trafficking to promote greater cross-system collaboration and the need to coordinate across child welfare, juvenile justice, education, and law enforcement to provide appropriate treatment interventions to child exploitation victims. We will continue to work with NCJFCJ to educate and empower partners across the US to discover ways in which they can better serve this population.

In addition to training judicial officers and system professionals, Rights4Girls regularly conducts presentations, webinars, and workshops for attorneys, educators, service providers, advocates, youth, and communities both in the US and internationally. Our presentations educate participants about the various forms of gender violence and oppression young women and girls face here in the US and teach attendees how, in their respective roles, they can improve our collective response towards vulnerable children and especially young girls.

To date, our team has educated thousands of people across the country on topics ranging from youth and criminal justice policies, alternatives to detention, sex trafficking of women and girls, sex trade policy and reform, survivor sentencing reform, racial disparities across systems and in the sex trade, the abuse to prison pipeline, and more.