Free Arizona Awareness Training
Watch this free expert-led training featuring Arizona State University research and Phoenix law enforcement insight, and learn how trafficking can happen locally, how traffickers recruit, and how ordinary adults can respond with wisdom.
Why This Training Matters
Many people picture trafficking as something dramatic, obvious, or far away.
But local experts explain that trafficking can be quieter, more relational, and more hidden than most families realize.
It can begin online. It can begin through a relationship. It can begin when a vulnerable young person is angry, lonely, scared, or simply looking for someone to listen.
This free training helps parents, grandparents, churches, schools, businesses, and community members understand the patterns so they can respond with wisdom instead of fear.
The warning signs are often quieter than people think.
Inside the Free Training
This training is built around education, prevention, awareness, and practical action steps for people who care about protecting vulnerable children and young people.
Understand why trafficking can happen in ordinary places, through ordinary relationships, and in digital spaces families may not think to watch.
Learn how traffickers look for vulnerability, build trust, offer attention, and slowly create control.
Learn what parents, grandparents, youth leaders, teachers, and caring adults should notice at home, online, and in the community.
Understand how fear, threats, emotional manipulation, shame, and trauma can keep a young person trapped.
Get a clearer way to start calm, age-appropriate conversations that help children and teens feel safe talking to trusted adults.
Learn practical ways churches, businesses, schools, and local leaders can become part of a wise, coordinated response.
The Training Features
This awareness training features Dr. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz of Arizona State University and Dr. James M. Gallagher, Phoenix Police Commander.
Together, they bring research, field experience, local context, and practical education to help the community understand trafficking without panic or misinformation.
A Calmer Way to Learn
There is a lot of fear and misinformation around human trafficking.
This training helps replace confusion with clarity.
You will learn what experts are seeing locally, how traffickers often operate, what warning signs may matter, and how caring adults can respond in a thoughtful, practical way.
The goal is simple: help more people become informed, prepared, and connected to trusted local resources.
Who Should Watch
You do not have to be a police officer, counselor, or social worker to learn the signs and become part of a safer community.
Learn what to watch for and how to begin the conversation at home.
Help your church respond with compassion, awareness, and practical next steps.
Better understand how traffickers look for vulnerability among young people.
Learn why local businesses can play an important role in recognizing warning signs.
Once you know what to look for, you may begin to see what others miss.
This free training helps you learn the facts, recognize the patterns, and respond with wisdom.Watch the Free Training
This free training will help you move beyond myths and fear so you can understand how trafficking happens, how vulnerable young people are targeted, and how families, churches, businesses, and communities can respond.
Enter your information and we will send you access to the training.