Webinar of Recovery: Trauma in Men & Boys Who Have Been Trafficked
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2023 AT 5 PM – 6 PM
Registration: https://bit.ly/3LoRj0m
The sexual trafficking of boys and young men is more underground, more covert than that of girls and women because of toxic masculinity, shame, and a pernicious skepticism that boys can be victims at all. This webinar will explore the known avenues and rates of male trafficking and efforts to extract victims, provide remediation, punish predators, and reduce that heinous practice especially as it increases exponentially through the internet.
Webinar Speakers
Steven Procopio (ACSW, LICSW )
Steven Procopio is an independent clinical social worker specializing in therapy for males with complex trauma as well as training others in the area of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking and commercial exploitation. He is the founder of the first free standing program to serve commercially sexually exploited boys, adolescent males and trans youth in the United States.
Steven has worked closely with the Office of Victims of Crime Human Trafficking Center, the National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center, and is a member of the United Nations Global Human Trafficking Task Force.
Steven’s recent work with Unitas North America on a prevention and education curriculum of commercial sexual exploitation will be administered in the New York City public school system. He has also served on the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Task Force on Human Trafficking as an therapist and director of a youth shelter for runaway/homeless youth.
Christopher Bates (Trauma Workshop Leader )
Chris Bates is an independent consultant specializing in youth homelessness issues. They use their own lived experience to inform and motivate them. They are committed to changing the systems that impact our most oppressed and vulnerable people, including those that exchange sex or sexual content to meet basic needs, at-risk youth, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color).