August 22, 2023 • 26 mins
Get ready to embark on a journey with the extraordinary conference planner, Anna Schramm. We delve deep into the intricacies of the upcoming Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference, a historic event that is marking its 20th year. Anna gives us the scoop on the registration rates and deadlines, and emphasizes that affordability doesn't compromise quality. A special mention to all college students and survivors of human trafficking - there are discounts and free access for you. But hurry, prices are set to increase in a week. If you haven't registered yet, circle August 29th on your calendar to save money on this enlightening opportunity.
Let’s raise a toast to the 20th anniversary of this impactful conference. To commemorate it, we're releasing exclusive 20th Annual Conference t-shirts from Worthwhile, a Fair Trade company. Not just a keepsake, the proceeds from these t-shirts go directly towards supporting programs for survivors. Save the date for the kickoff event on Tuesday, September 19th, from 6-7 pm Eastern time, to be followed by the three day Program with 110 various presenters. Did we mention the conference also offers a variety of continuing education credits for professionals in fields such as social work, counseling, and the legal field? Tune in as we uncover the potential of this conference and how your participation can make a real difference.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You know the why human trafficking work is needed
To fight for the freedom ofmodern day slaves.
But love, passion, commitmentisn't all you need to be an
effective and successfulanti-trafficking advocate.
Learn the how.
I'm Dr Celia Williamson,Director of the Human
Trafficking and Social JusticeInstitute at the University of
(00:23):
Toledo.
Welcome to the EmancipationNation podcast, where I'll
provide you with the latest andbest methods, policy and
practice discussed byexperienced experts in the field
, so that you can cut throughthe noise, save time and be
about the work of saving lives.
Welcome to the EmancipationNation episode 187.
(00:44):
And today I have Anna Schram, aconference planner
extraordinaire, back to talk onelast time about the human
trafficking conference that'scoming up.
It's actually the HumanTrafficking and Social Justice
Conference, and this is how manyyears we've been doing this,
(01:05):
Anna?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We are celebrating our 20th year this year.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
One of you and you know what 20 year olds look like
.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Right, they look great, they are grown adults, I
mean maybe not all the waymentally, but you know, in the
eyes of the law they areconsidered full adults, that's
right.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And this is going to be a full adult version of the
conference.
We have arrived.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We are grown.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We are grown up and so tell us.
I mean, why are we doing this?
You know, talk on theconference.
Now there's a particular reason.
So why are we talking about ittoday?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, besides, you know everybody wanting to hear
my voice again, we just come onthe podcast and have you
listened to me one more time?
We are getting closer to theconference, but in one week from
today, prices increase.
So if you still have notregistered, that's okay, but you
(02:07):
only have one more week to getyour ticket at the current rate.
So on August 29th prices doincrease.
So if you want to save a littlebit of money, you know every
dollar counts.
So make sure that you registerbefore August 29th and then, if
you are listening to this lateror don't get around to it, you
(02:28):
can still register after August29th.
But registration the last dayto register is September 12th,
so that was a very firm cutoffdate.
Unfortunately, we can't let inany late attendees, so make sure
that you do register beforeAugust 12th or before August
(02:48):
29th if you want thosediscounted, those early bird
rates.
And you know, I know you mighthave been putting this off, as
we've all kind of been in summermode and on vacation and not
wanting to think about anythingthat happens in the fall.
I know that's kind of been me,but now we are getting into, you
know, back to school mode andkind of back into our normal
(03:09):
schedules.
So now we got to think about.
Think about September and thinkabout registering, because you
do not want to miss this 20thannual conference.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Absolutely.
You know, even if you're ourBFF, you're in our family album.
You know you are a homey, ourday one.
We still cannot Let you instraight if it's after the
deadline.
So please, you know, pay.
So tell us, anna, what are thedifferent rates Like?
What are the rates now and thenafter the deadline?
(03:40):
What are the rates gonna be?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, so we do have several different types of
registration, just to let youguys know that off the top.
So, excuse me, we do have.
It's a three day conference, soyou can come for all three days
.
That's $250.
Next week it will be $275.
So we're only increasing it by$25.
(04:02):
We don't wanna, you know, goutyou for money, but you know we
do want to.
You know every dollar counts,like I mentioned so we save 25
bucks, but we do have options ifyou only wanna attend two days
or just one day because of workor other things going on.
So our two day rate is $175currently and a week from today
it'll be $200.
(04:23):
And then our one dayregistration is $90 and
increases next week to 115.
So yeah, I'd increase by 25bucks, you know, but 25 bucks
can get you a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And save some money.
I mean, I don't I'm sorry, Idon't really know anybody that
you know, $25 still doesn't meananything to them.
I think it very much.
Still means people.
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I think so too, but then we do have college student
registration rates as well.
Those are very discounted ratesfor anybody who's in undergrad,
graduate, doctoral programs,anybody who's a current college
student.
We know that your education isvery expensive, so we want to
(05:09):
make this affordable to you,this great information.
So our one, two and three daycollege rates are $40, $65 and
$90 respectively, and then thatalso does increase by 10, 15 and
$20 next week.
So yeah, but if you're acollege student, you just want
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to come to one day of theconference.
You'll still get a lot of outof it, and it's only 40 bucks
right now.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So yeah, and it's still free for survivors of any
form of human trafficking,correct?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That is correct.
So, yeah, the early birddeadline in a week does not
count for our free attendancefor survivors.
So I've been having so manysurvivors reach out to me asking
for the free registration.
I'm so excited to see thatthere are networks out there
(06:05):
that are spreading the word andwe're getting a lot of survivors
who have never heard about theconference before and heard
about it from a friend, or evensurvivors that have come the
last handful of years andthey're like and are you still
giving free registration?
And I want to come again thisyear.
So, yes, if you're a survivorof trafficking, you can email me
attraffickingconferenceatgmailcom
(06:29):
and ask for that free code and Iwill send you that so you can
attend the conference.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, and that free code is for survivors of any
form of human trafficking.
So I want to make sure that wemake clear.
When you hear these prices andyou compare them to other
conferences, you will clearlysee that this conference is very
reasonably priced.
But I don't want you to confusea lower rate with lower quality
(06:59):
.
Indeed, that is exactly theopposite.
We have over 110 presenters.
These are world-classpresenters.
These are presenters fromacross the US and around the
world who they've done theirwork.
There are people presenting inareas of research.
There are people presentingtheir lived experience and then
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went on to perhaps developprograms or Support groups.
There are people that arepresenting because they do run
programs or they run agenciesand they want to share what
they've done.
There's people that arepresenting on their activism or
their political work,legislation, those types of
things.
So do not confuse the fact thatwe are trying to not hit your
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wallet as hard as these otherconferences.
Don't confuse that with a lackof quality.
And even if you missed thedeadline and you pay the higher
rate, best believe we would loveto take your money because your
money is going to be used tofurther the cause.
We are not going to spend yourmoney frivolously.
We'll spend it on thetechnology that we need to run
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the conference, and then therest of the money will go in
places that help other survivorsin our community or that help
fund our institutes projects sothat we can continue to do the
research and evaluation we do.
That helps further the cause.
So, either way, your money isgoing to a good place and you
are going to get excellentquality Programming.
(08:35):
So tell us.
And People can also getcontinuing education units if
their professionals correct.
So what kind of continuingeducation can they get and how
many can they get?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, so not only does your money go towards your
registration, but it also Helpsus to provide continuing
education credits that a lot ofprofessionals in the field with
licensures and accreditationneed to keep up and have so many
continuing education hoursevery year.
So we offer several differenttypes of continuing education
(09:14):
and you can get up to 12 CEs forattending the entire conference
.
So the different ones that wehave if you are one of these
professionals, you can get up to12.
So it's social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy,
and then we have a chemicaldependency, health education,
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occupational therapy, publichealth department of
developmental disabilities andlegal the legal continuing
education credits.
So that's a lot of types ofprofessionals.
Like Celia mentioned, we are avery diverse conference, so I
know that continuing educationcan get expensive.
So you know this.
(09:55):
This conference you want togive you 12 CEs for your low
registration price and whilelearning about very important
human trafficking and socialjustice topics from the leading
experts in the world and thelatest information about
trafficking.
So you know you get killing twobirds with one stone here.
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And I know they can get 12 up to 12 continuing
education credits, but they canalso watch sessions they miss,
because some of the frustrationthat I have when I go to
conferences is like man, I can'tpick.
You know, I have there's threeof them going on at the same
time.
I want to go to these two, butthey're happening at the same
time, so we've worked to resolvethat.
(10:37):
So can you talk about that?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, so we do record all of the presentations at the
conference.
So then you have the ability torewatch the sessions that you
have missed for three weeksafter the conference.
So you have access to all ofthat content until Friday,
october 13th.
So you have three weeks and,like you said, if there is a
(11:02):
couple of sessions during thesame time that you can't choose
between, you can watch some ofthose sessions later.
Also, if something comes up withwork or with life with family,
we know that life can throwthings at you and you got to be
flexible.
So if you have to miss asession because of something,
then you can always go back andrewatch.
(11:22):
So you can even earn yourcontinuing education by watching
the recorded sessions on demand.
It doesn't have to be live, butwe can't give you more than 12,
because that's what we havebeen approved for.
We've been approved to givebecause there's four sessions
each day.
So that's how we get to 12.
(11:43):
So you have four each day, butif you can't watch them live
each day, you can watch thoserecordings and get your full 12
CEs after the conference.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, so over expected to be over 110
presentations.
You're paying $250.
I don't even math, but that'sprobably like $2, $3.
Yeah, for a presentation thatreally will advance your
knowledge and advance your skilllevel.
And many of these people,you've heard their names, maybe
(12:17):
you've seen them in YouTubevideos, maybe you've read their
books, read their publishedarticles, and so you are going
to be in the virtual room withthem, right?
And so that's a big deal forsome of us who are like
fangirling Like I will dosometimes if I see somebody who
I've read a lot about and then Ifinally get to ask them a
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question or or something likethat, just cut through the noise
and get straight to the heartof the matter, and that's really
what I love about theconference.
So Talk about what we're doingthis year.
That's a little bit different,even from what we've done the
past 19 years.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah.
So we wanted to make this yearspecial because it is our 20th
anniversary two whole decades ofthe conference so we have to do
something to recognize that.
So the first thing that we'redoing is we have worked with a
fair trade company calledworthwhile where to create
exclusive 20th annual conferencet shirts so very excited about
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these.
We just did an interview withWIWARE on the podcast a couple
months ago so you can go backand listen a little bit more
about what they do.
But these are ethical, organict shirts that are fair trade and
the proceeds go back to supportprogramming for survivors.
(13:45):
So it's going.
These are the shirts that we'regetting them from and it has
our logo on it.
It's a celebrating 20 yearsonly offering these shirts this
year.
So if you're like, oh, that'scool, I'll get one in the future
, no, I'm sorry, this is theonly year.
It's our 20th annual or t-shirtfor our 20th annual conference
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and you know, along the lines of20, the t-shirt is $20.
So that is also includes freeshipping and that is free
international shipping.
So if you're listening to thisand you do not live in the
United States, you can still getyour shirt for $20 and not
includes international shipping.
So we want to make thisaffordable for everyone, and
(14:32):
everybody can just rock out withtheir 20th annual t-shirt.
So if you are registering forthe conference, before you check
out, there is an option to adda t-shirt to your cart.
So make sure you do that if youdon't want to miss out on this.
And then I will let you knowthat we are going to be raffling
off some of the shirtsthroughout the conference.
(14:53):
So if you missed youropportunity or are feeling lucky
and want to see if you can win,we are going to be giving them
away throughout each day of theconference and sending them out
afterwards.
So I'm excited about the, aboutthe t-shirts, and it'll be sent
right home.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I love the t-shirt idea because you know who are.
You Say who you are.
I mean, spend your money andmake a statement in the places
you spend your money.
What you wear on your bodymakes a statement, so does it
make the statement that you wantit to make?
I mean, when you buy a t-shirtand you wear it around, it's a
conversation starter.
It gives you an opportunity totalk about human trafficking and
(15:34):
the fight against traffickingand about the conference and
about who you are as a person.
I mean I think that and $20, ofcourse, to ship internationally
.
I mean we are not.
We're not making money on that,we're losing money.
But it's important thateverybody have equity, that they
have a chance to wear thist-shirt, to be proud that
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they're in the fight againsthuman trafficking.
So what else are we doingthat's different for this 20th?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, we are also hosting a kickoff event on the
Tuesday before, so still virtual, but just a time for everybody
to come together and kind ofjust prepare and have a little
bit of fun.
So it'll be on Tuesday,september 19th, at six to seven
(16:21):
o'clock pm Eastern time.
So hopefully that works out formost people's schedules, even
our international friends.
Maybe it'll be very early inthe morning for you, hopefully
you can catch it, but we're justgoing to get together online
for an hour.
We're going to kind of take alittle look back down memory
lane of where we've been overthese last 20 years.
(16:44):
We got a couple's fun videosthat we've put together, some
old pictures that we'vescrounged up and look back, and
then we're also going to play acouple games.
We're going to give away someof those t-shirts that I
mentioned and we're kind of justgoing to take a little bit of
time to prepare ourselves forthe next three days.
It can be very.
It's a great conference, butit's some heavy topics, and
(17:06):
listening to these heavy topicshour after hour for several days
, it can be a lot.
So we're kind of just going toground ourselves beforehand and
kind of put us in the rightmental space to just receive all
of this information over thenext several days.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah, I think you know with the pre-event, I mean
it's only an hour, but I thinkcome together, say hello like
people you are our people, likewe are one world and it's going
to be a very small world whenyou come in and you start saying
hello, even at the conference,you'll see people from all
around the world who have thesame type of passion that you
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have, and it's just an amazingexperience.
And you know, if you'reinterested, stop in, say hello
to us.
Like I said, we are your people, you are our people.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
So stay hello and yeah it's a great way to network
too.
If you're wanting to connectwith more people, or maybe
you're a recent grad and lookingfor a job, or you just want to
get connected to a group oflike-minded people, come to this
.
It'll just be one extra way toconnect and, yeah, say hi to
people over the world.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Absolutely so what is the third thing that's
different?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yes, you did mention three things.
So the final thing that we'redoing to celebrate our 20th
anniversary is we're launching anew high school online program.
If you are familiar with ourconference, you have heard that
we've done a high school dayalways the day before the main
international conference.
Excuse me so, since COVID, wehave also done this high school
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day online, but it has not beenas successful as our main
international conference.
We have not seen the growthjust because, you know, the
school system got reallyimpacted by COVID and you know
teachers have been doing a lotto keep their students on pace
and interacting with them and wejust could not keep up with
that because there's so muchgoing on in school every day for
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people to take time, a specifictime, to come to this one live
event.
That only happened once.
So we wanted to make it moreaccessible to students and to
teachers to be able to accessthis at any time of the year,
whether students want to accessit on their own in their own
free time, or teachers want toincorporate it into their
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curriculum and watch some videos15 minutes here, 15 minutes
there but not have to take anentire day off of school.
So we came up with this ideaand we're calling it our high
school online program.
We have a series of variousmodules that are going to cover
topics from just like humantrafficking 101.
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What is it?
What are signs to look for?
What do healthy relationshipslook like?
What is consent?
We're also going to touch ondifferent social justice topics
that we believe intersect withtrafficking, like sexual assault
, gun violence, drug use.
So well, youth will be learningabout this, and then they'll
also learn about survivorstories and then kind of like
(20:16):
next steps.
So what do I do now that I'velearned about this?
How do I get involved If I'minterested in this in a career?
So I'm very excited about this.
Like I mentioned, it's going tobe free and accessible at any
time of the year, just tostudents and educators, so we
want to keep it in that highschool arena.
If you're looking for, ifyou're a professional and not in
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high school, we have Celia'spodcast that you can listen to
every week.
We also have modules on ourEmancipation Nation that are
more geared towards you, butthis this is just only
specifically for high schoolstudents and educators.
I'm very excited about it.
It's starting to all cometogether, and so we're going to
be launching it and giving acouple of previews and sneak
(21:01):
peeks throughout the liveinternational conference and
then that week after the lastweek of September, we'll
actually be launching it.
So yeah, very exciting stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
That is so exciting.
And you know you mentioned theEmancipation Nation.
If people are interested ingetting involved in that, you
just simply Google EmancipationNation Network, get free
membership.
You can watch.
You know, we have a phase one,which has a series of webinars
(21:32):
that teach you about differentvarious aspects of human
trafficking.
You can take phase two, whichgoes more in depth in various
aspects of human traffickingtaught by experts all across the
US and around the world, ofcourse, for free.
And Anna, how much is it forsome for schools to participate
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in the high school program allyear?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It is free.
They do not have to payanything.
We are making this free,accessible, do you hear this,
people.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm saying if you want to be educated, I mean,
there is no real excuse.
And I like to.
I did a whole podcast on fast,good and cheap.
It's like you can't have allthree of them, right.
You can.
You can have it fast and youcan have it good, but it is not
going to be cheap to get thateducation and that skill level.
(22:26):
Or you can have it cheap andfast, but I promise you it will
not be good.
There is no trust and believe.
I've been in this for 30 years.
There are many people aroundthe world that have been in
anti-trafficking work forseveral decades.
If we would have figured outhow to do it and do it well Very
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early on, we would have donethat.
So there are no shortcuts.
But here's a way for you to getin and begin this journey.
And there are gaps in youreducation.
So take those sessions thatfill those gaps so that you can
advance your knowledge andincrease your skills, and that's
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the way you become good at whatyou do and that's the way you
become effective.
If you wanna jump out there andjust do something, just do
anything.
This is the saying I hate themost.
Well, lisa, I'm doing somethingBecause you don't accept that
in your life, if you tell thetruth, like I say, when you go
(23:30):
to your physician, you don'twant that person to just be
doing something.
You want that person to bedoing the best thing.
When you go to your mentalhealth provider, you don't want
them just doing something thatthey felt in their gut to do.
You want them to do the bestthing, based on what's best
practice and what's effective.
At least provide the same tothe people that you profess to
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care about.
Provide them with the best.
And that means that you have toincrease your knowledge and you
have to increase your skills.
And here's the way to do it.
Some of the options all yearlong, free, the conference, very
reasonably priced.
There is no reason why youshouldn't be highly skilled and
(24:17):
highly competent if that's whatyou want to do.
So any last minute words, anna,that we need to tell the people
.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I was just thinking about your analogy with the fast
, good and cheap, and I thinkthat we it might seem like what
we're doing has been fast, butwe are really doing it cheap and
good.
We're trying to make it asleast expensive as possible, if
not free, and do it good.
And it might seem like it'sfast, especially if you're
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coming for the first time orjust heard about us and you get
access to all of this greatinformation and it's right there
at your fingertips.
But let me tell you we, andmostly Celia, has been working
on this for decades and we it'sa culmination of all of this
great work that Celia and a lotof other wonderful researchers
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and service providers have beenputting together over the last
several decades, and so it's allreally exciting because it's
culminating at the conference,and especially at this 20th
annual conference.
That's just gonna be acelebration of, I think, like
where we've been over the lasttwo decades of anti-trafficking
work and then really lookingforward to what we've learned
(25:32):
and how to move forward in abetter and effective way.
And yeah, like you said, don'tjust do something, do the best
thing.
You can really learn.
Other people have done the workand you can learn from these
people at the conference.
So just encouraging you toattend the conference, get it at
that early bird rate If notregister before September 12th.
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Our website istraffickingconferencecom.
Go there, check it out.
We have our full schedule upthere so you can even look at
the sessions before deciding ifyou want to even pay to come.
So look at it and if you haveany questions, email me at
traffickingconference atgmailcom.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Hey, and until next time the fight continues.
Let's not just do something,let's do the best thing.
If you liked this episode ofEmancipation Nation, please
subscribe and I'll send you theweekly podcast.
Until then, the fight continues.
You know the why human trafficking work is needed
To fight for the freedom ofmodern day slaves.
But love, passion, commitmentisn't all you need to be an
effective and successfulanti-trafficking advocate.
Learn the how.
I'm Dr Celia Williamson,Director of the Human
Trafficking and Social JusticeInstitute at the University of
(00:23):
Toledo.
Welcome to the EmancipationNation podcast, where I'll
provide you with the latest andbest methods, policy and
practice discussed byexperienced experts in the field
, so that you can cut throughthe noise, save time and be
about the work of saving lives.
Welcome to the EmancipationNation episode 187.
(00:44):
And today I have Anna Schram, aconference planner
extraordinaire, back to talk onelast time about the human
trafficking conference that'scoming up.
It's actually the HumanTrafficking and Social Justice
Conference, and this is how manyyears we've been doing this,
(01:05):
Anna?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We are celebrating our 20th year this year.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
One of you and you know what 20 year olds look like
.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Right, they look great, they are grown adults, I
mean maybe not all the waymentally, but you know, in the
eyes of the law they areconsidered full adults, that's
right.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And this is going to be a full adult version of the
conference.
We have arrived.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We are grown.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We are grown up and so tell us.
I mean, why are we doing this?
You know, talk on theconference.
Now there's a particular reason.
So why are we talking about ittoday?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, besides, you know everybody wanting to hear
my voice again, we just come onthe podcast and have you
listened to me one more time?
We are getting closer to theconference, but in one week from
today, prices increase.
So if you still have notregistered, that's okay, but you
(02:07):
only have one more week to getyour ticket at the current rate.
So on August 29th prices doincrease.
So if you want to save a littlebit of money, you know every
dollar counts.
So make sure that you registerbefore August 29th and then, if
you are listening to this lateror don't get around to it, you
(02:28):
can still register after August29th.
But registration the last dayto register is September 12th,
so that was a very firm cutoffdate.
Unfortunately, we can't let inany late attendees, so make sure
that you do register beforeAugust 12th or before August
(02:48):
29th if you want thosediscounted, those early bird
rates.
And you know, I know you mighthave been putting this off, as
we've all kind of been in summermode and on vacation and not
wanting to think about anythingthat happens in the fall.
I know that's kind of been me,but now we are getting into, you
know, back to school mode andkind of back into our normal
(03:09):
schedules.
So now we got to think about.
Think about September and thinkabout registering, because you
do not want to miss this 20thannual conference.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Absolutely.
You know, even if you're ourBFF, you're in our family album.
You know you are a homey, ourday one.
We still cannot Let you instraight if it's after the
deadline.
So please, you know, pay.
So tell us, anna, what are thedifferent rates Like?
What are the rates now and thenafter the deadline?
(03:40):
What are the rates gonna be?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, so we do have several different types of
registration, just to let youguys know that off the top.
So, excuse me, we do have.
It's a three day conference, soyou can come for all three days
.
That's $250.
Next week it will be $275.
So we're only increasing it by$25.
(04:02):
We don't wanna, you know, goutyou for money, but you know we
do want to.
You know every dollar counts,like I mentioned so we save 25
bucks, but we do have options ifyou only wanna attend two days
or just one day because of workor other things going on.
So our two day rate is $175currently and a week from today
it'll be $200.
(04:23):
And then our one dayregistration is $90 and
increases next week to 115.
So yeah, I'd increase by 25bucks, you know, but 25 bucks
can get you a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And save some money.
I mean, I don't I'm sorry, Idon't really know anybody that
you know, $25 still doesn't meananything to them.
I think it very much.
Still means people.
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I think so too, but then we do have college student
registration rates as well.
Those are very discounted ratesfor anybody who's in undergrad,
graduate, doctoral programs,anybody who's a current college
student.
We know that your education isvery expensive, so we want to
(05:09):
make this affordable to you,this great information.
So our one, two and three daycollege rates are $40, $65 and
$90 respectively, and then thatalso does increase by 10, 15 and
$20 next week.
So yeah, but if you're acollege student, you just want
(05:32):
to come to one day of theconference.
You'll still get a lot of outof it, and it's only 40 bucks
right now.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So yeah, and it's still free for survivors of any
form of human trafficking,correct?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That is correct.
So, yeah, the early birddeadline in a week does not
count for our free attendancefor survivors.
So I've been having so manysurvivors reach out to me asking
for the free registration.
I'm so excited to see thatthere are networks out there
(06:05):
that are spreading the word andwe're getting a lot of survivors
who have never heard about theconference before and heard
about it from a friend, or evensurvivors that have come the
last handful of years andthey're like and are you still
giving free registration?
And I want to come again thisyear.
So, yes, if you're a survivorof trafficking, you can email me
attraffickingconferenceatgmailcom
(06:29):
and ask for that free code and Iwill send you that so you can
attend the conference.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, and that free code is for survivors of any
form of human trafficking.
So I want to make sure that wemake clear.
When you hear these prices andyou compare them to other
conferences, you will clearlysee that this conference is very
reasonably priced.
But I don't want you to confusea lower rate with lower quality
(06:59):
.
Indeed, that is exactly theopposite.
We have over 110 presenters.
These are world-classpresenters.
These are presenters fromacross the US and around the
world who they've done theirwork.
There are people presenting inareas of research.
There are people presentingtheir lived experience and then
(07:23):
went on to perhaps developprograms or Support groups.
There are people that arepresenting because they do run
programs or they run agenciesand they want to share what
they've done.
There's people that arepresenting on their activism or
their political work,legislation, those types of
things.
So do not confuse the fact thatwe are trying to not hit your
(07:50):
wallet as hard as these otherconferences.
Don't confuse that with a lackof quality.
And even if you missed thedeadline and you pay the higher
rate, best believe we would loveto take your money because your
money is going to be used tofurther the cause.
We are not going to spend yourmoney frivolously.
We'll spend it on thetechnology that we need to run
(08:11):
the conference, and then therest of the money will go in
places that help other survivorsin our community or that help
fund our institutes projects sothat we can continue to do the
research and evaluation we do.
That helps further the cause.
So, either way, your money isgoing to a good place and you
are going to get excellentquality Programming.
(08:35):
So tell us.
And People can also getcontinuing education units if
their professionals correct.
So what kind of continuingeducation can they get and how
many can they get?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, so not only does your money go towards your
registration, but it also Helpsus to provide continuing
education credits that a lot ofprofessionals in the field with
licensures and accreditationneed to keep up and have so many
continuing education hoursevery year.
So we offer several differenttypes of continuing education
(09:14):
and you can get up to 12 CEs forattending the entire conference
.
So the different ones that wehave if you are one of these
professionals, you can get up to12.
So it's social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy,
and then we have a chemicaldependency, health education,
(09:35):
occupational therapy, publichealth department of
developmental disabilities andlegal the legal continuing
education credits.
So that's a lot of types ofprofessionals.
Like Celia mentioned, we are avery diverse conference, so I
know that continuing educationcan get expensive.
So you know this.
(09:55):
This conference you want togive you 12 CEs for your low
registration price and whilelearning about very important
human trafficking and socialjustice topics from the leading
experts in the world and thelatest information about
trafficking.
So you know you get killing twobirds with one stone here.
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And I know they can get 12 up to 12 continuing
education credits, but they canalso watch sessions they miss,
because some of the frustrationthat I have when I go to
conferences is like man, I can'tpick.
You know, I have there's threeof them going on at the same
time.
I want to go to these two, butthey're happening at the same
time, so we've worked to resolvethat.
(10:37):
So can you talk about that?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, so we do record all of the presentations at the
conference.
So then you have the ability torewatch the sessions that you
have missed for three weeksafter the conference.
So you have access to all ofthat content until Friday,
october 13th.
So you have three weeks and,like you said, if there is a
(11:02):
couple of sessions during thesame time that you can't choose
between, you can watch some ofthose sessions later.
Also, if something comes up withwork or with life with family,
we know that life can throwthings at you and you got to be
flexible.
So if you have to miss asession because of something,
then you can always go back andrewatch.
(11:22):
So you can even earn yourcontinuing education by watching
the recorded sessions on demand.
It doesn't have to be live, butwe can't give you more than 12,
because that's what we havebeen approved for.
We've been approved to givebecause there's four sessions
each day.
So that's how we get to 12.
(11:43):
So you have four each day, butif you can't watch them live
each day, you can watch thoserecordings and get your full 12
CEs after the conference.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, so over expected to be over 110
presentations.
You're paying $250.
I don't even math, but that'sprobably like $2, $3.
Yeah, for a presentation thatreally will advance your
knowledge and advance your skilllevel.
And many of these people,you've heard their names, maybe
(12:17):
you've seen them in YouTubevideos, maybe you've read their
books, read their publishedarticles, and so you are going
to be in the virtual room withthem, right?
And so that's a big deal forsome of us who are like
fangirling Like I will dosometimes if I see somebody who
I've read a lot about and then Ifinally get to ask them a
(12:39):
question or or something likethat, just cut through the noise
and get straight to the heartof the matter, and that's really
what I love about theconference.
So Talk about what we're doingthis year.
That's a little bit different,even from what we've done the
past 19 years.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah.
So we wanted to make this yearspecial because it is our 20th
anniversary two whole decades ofthe conference so we have to do
something to recognize that.
So the first thing that we'redoing is we have worked with a
fair trade company calledworthwhile where to create
exclusive 20th annual conferencet shirts so very excited about
(13:24):
these.
We just did an interview withWIWARE on the podcast a couple
months ago so you can go backand listen a little bit more
about what they do.
But these are ethical, organict shirts that are fair trade and
the proceeds go back to supportprogramming for survivors.
(13:45):
So it's going.
These are the shirts that we'regetting them from and it has
our logo on it.
It's a celebrating 20 yearsonly offering these shirts this
year.
So if you're like, oh, that'scool, I'll get one in the future
, no, I'm sorry, this is theonly year.
It's our 20th annual or t-shirtfor our 20th annual conference
(14:08):
and you know, along the lines of20, the t-shirt is $20.
So that is also includes freeshipping and that is free
international shipping.
So if you're listening to thisand you do not live in the
United States, you can still getyour shirt for $20 and not
includes international shipping.
So we want to make thisaffordable for everyone, and
(14:32):
everybody can just rock out withtheir 20th annual t-shirt.
So if you are registering forthe conference, before you check
out, there is an option to adda t-shirt to your cart.
So make sure you do that if youdon't want to miss out on this.
And then I will let you knowthat we are going to be raffling
off some of the shirtsthroughout the conference.
(14:53):
So if you missed youropportunity or are feeling lucky
and want to see if you can win,we are going to be giving them
away throughout each day of theconference and sending them out
afterwards.
So I'm excited about the, aboutthe t-shirts, and it'll be sent
right home.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I love the t-shirt idea because you know who are.
You Say who you are.
I mean, spend your money andmake a statement in the places
you spend your money.
What you wear on your bodymakes a statement, so does it
make the statement that you wantit to make?
I mean, when you buy a t-shirtand you wear it around, it's a
conversation starter.
It gives you an opportunity totalk about human trafficking and
(15:34):
the fight against traffickingand about the conference and
about who you are as a person.
I mean I think that and $20, ofcourse, to ship internationally
.
I mean we are not.
We're not making money on that,we're losing money.
But it's important thateverybody have equity, that they
have a chance to wear thist-shirt, to be proud that
(15:56):
they're in the fight againsthuman trafficking.
So what else are we doingthat's different for this 20th?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, we are also hosting a kickoff event on the
Tuesday before, so still virtual, but just a time for everybody
to come together and kind ofjust prepare and have a little
bit of fun.
So it'll be on Tuesday,september 19th, at six to seven
(16:21):
o'clock pm Eastern time.
So hopefully that works out formost people's schedules, even
our international friends.
Maybe it'll be very early inthe morning for you, hopefully
you can catch it, but we're justgoing to get together online
for an hour.
We're going to kind of take alittle look back down memory
lane of where we've been overthese last 20 years.
(16:44):
We got a couple's fun videosthat we've put together, some
old pictures that we'vescrounged up and look back, and
then we're also going to play acouple games.
We're going to give away someof those t-shirts that I
mentioned and we're kind of justgoing to take a little bit of
time to prepare ourselves forthe next three days.
It can be very.
It's a great conference, butit's some heavy topics, and
(17:06):
listening to these heavy topicshour after hour for several days
, it can be a lot.
So we're kind of just going toground ourselves beforehand and
kind of put us in the rightmental space to just receive all
of this information over thenext several days.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah, I think you know with the pre-event, I mean
it's only an hour, but I thinkcome together, say hello like
people you are our people, likewe are one world and it's going
to be a very small world whenyou come in and you start saying
hello, even at the conference,you'll see people from all
around the world who have thesame type of passion that you
(17:47):
have, and it's just an amazingexperience.
And you know, if you'reinterested, stop in, say hello
to us.
Like I said, we are your people, you are our people.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
So stay hello and yeah it's a great way to network
too.
If you're wanting to connectwith more people, or maybe
you're a recent grad and lookingfor a job, or you just want to
get connected to a group oflike-minded people, come to this
.
It'll just be one extra way toconnect and, yeah, say hi to
people over the world.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Absolutely so what is the third thing that's
different?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yes, you did mention three things.
So the final thing that we'redoing to celebrate our 20th
anniversary is we're launching anew high school online program.
If you are familiar with ourconference, you have heard that
we've done a high school dayalways the day before the main
international conference.
Excuse me so, since COVID, wehave also done this high school
(18:48):
day online, but it has not beenas successful as our main
international conference.
We have not seen the growthjust because, you know, the
school system got reallyimpacted by COVID and you know
teachers have been doing a lotto keep their students on pace
and interacting with them and wejust could not keep up with
that because there's so muchgoing on in school every day for
(19:12):
people to take time, a specifictime, to come to this one live
event.
That only happened once.
So we wanted to make it moreaccessible to students and to
teachers to be able to accessthis at any time of the year,
whether students want to accessit on their own in their own
free time, or teachers want toincorporate it into their
(19:32):
curriculum and watch some videos15 minutes here, 15 minutes
there but not have to take anentire day off of school.
So we came up with this ideaand we're calling it our high
school online program.
We have a series of variousmodules that are going to cover
topics from just like humantrafficking 101.
(19:53):
What is it?
What are signs to look for?
What do healthy relationshipslook like?
What is consent?
We're also going to touch ondifferent social justice topics
that we believe intersect withtrafficking, like sexual assault
, gun violence, drug use.
So well, youth will be learningabout this, and then they'll
also learn about survivorstories and then kind of like
(20:16):
next steps.
So what do I do now that I'velearned about this?
How do I get involved If I'minterested in this in a career?
So I'm very excited about this.
Like I mentioned, it's going tobe free and accessible at any
time of the year, just tostudents and educators, so we
want to keep it in that highschool arena.
If you're looking for, ifyou're a professional and not in
(20:39):
high school, we have Celia'spodcast that you can listen to
every week.
We also have modules on ourEmancipation Nation that are
more geared towards you, butthis this is just only
specifically for high schoolstudents and educators.
I'm very excited about it.
It's starting to all cometogether, and so we're going to
be launching it and giving acouple of previews and sneak
(21:01):
peeks throughout the liveinternational conference and
then that week after the lastweek of September, we'll
actually be launching it.
So yeah, very exciting stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
That is so exciting.
And you know you mentioned theEmancipation Nation.
If people are interested ingetting involved in that, you
just simply Google EmancipationNation Network, get free
membership.
You can watch.
You know, we have a phase one,which has a series of webinars
(21:32):
that teach you about differentvarious aspects of human
trafficking.
You can take phase two, whichgoes more in depth in various
aspects of human traffickingtaught by experts all across the
US and around the world, ofcourse, for free.
And Anna, how much is it forsome for schools to participate
(21:52):
in the high school program allyear?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It is free.
They do not have to payanything.
We are making this free,accessible, do you hear this,
people.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm saying if you want to be educated, I mean,
there is no real excuse.
And I like to.
I did a whole podcast on fast,good and cheap.
It's like you can't have allthree of them, right.
You can.
You can have it fast and youcan have it good, but it is not
going to be cheap to get thateducation and that skill level.
(22:26):
Or you can have it cheap andfast, but I promise you it will
not be good.
There is no trust and believe.
I've been in this for 30 years.
There are many people aroundthe world that have been in
anti-trafficking work forseveral decades.
If we would have figured outhow to do it and do it well Very
(22:46):
early on, we would have donethat.
So there are no shortcuts.
But here's a way for you to getin and begin this journey.
And there are gaps in youreducation.
So take those sessions thatfill those gaps so that you can
advance your knowledge andincrease your skills, and that's
(23:08):
the way you become good at whatyou do and that's the way you
become effective.
If you wanna jump out there andjust do something, just do
anything.
This is the saying I hate themost.
Well, lisa, I'm doing somethingBecause you don't accept that
in your life, if you tell thetruth, like I say, when you go
(23:30):
to your physician, you don'twant that person to just be
doing something.
You want that person to bedoing the best thing.
When you go to your mentalhealth provider, you don't want
them just doing something thatthey felt in their gut to do.
You want them to do the bestthing, based on what's best
practice and what's effective.
At least provide the same tothe people that you profess to
(23:54):
care about.
Provide them with the best.
And that means that you have toincrease your knowledge and you
have to increase your skills.
And here's the way to do it.
Some of the options all yearlong, free, the conference, very
reasonably priced.
There is no reason why youshouldn't be highly skilled and
(24:17):
highly competent if that's whatyou want to do.
So any last minute words, anna,that we need to tell the people
.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I was just thinking about your analogy with the fast
, good and cheap, and I thinkthat we it might seem like what
we're doing has been fast, butwe are really doing it cheap and
good.
We're trying to make it asleast expensive as possible, if
not free, and do it good.
And it might seem like it'sfast, especially if you're
(24:47):
coming for the first time orjust heard about us and you get
access to all of this greatinformation and it's right there
at your fingertips.
But let me tell you we, andmostly Celia, has been working
on this for decades and we it'sa culmination of all of this
great work that Celia and a lotof other wonderful researchers
(25:08):
and service providers have beenputting together over the last
several decades, and so it's allreally exciting because it's
culminating at the conference,and especially at this 20th
annual conference.
That's just gonna be acelebration of, I think, like
where we've been over the lasttwo decades of anti-trafficking
work and then really lookingforward to what we've learned
(25:32):
and how to move forward in abetter and effective way.
And yeah, like you said, don'tjust do something, do the best
thing.
You can really learn.
Other people have done the workand you can learn from these
people at the conference.
So just encouraging you toattend the conference, get it at
that early bird rate If notregister before September 12th.
(25:54):
Our website istraffickingconferencecom.
Go there, check it out.
We have our full schedule upthere so you can even look at
the sessions before deciding ifyou want to even pay to come.
So look at it and if you haveany questions, email me at
traffickingconference atgmailcom.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Hey, and until next time the fight continues.
Let's not just do something,let's do the best thing.
If you liked this episode ofEmancipation Nation, please
subscribe and I'll send you theweekly podcast.
Until then, the fight continues.
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