{"id":6225,"date":"2024-08-12T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=6225"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:21:05","slug":"raising-human-trafficking-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/12\/raising-human-trafficking-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Human Trafficking Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-lg, 3rem);}.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 991px){.kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column6225_5f220f-d8 dynamic-main-col\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p>Wilmington University is a leader in raising awareness of human trafficking, presenting eight webinars over the past four years featuring experts in the field, as well as survivors of human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WilmU\u2019s Human Trafficking Studies webinar program has attracted more than 2,700 registrations. Attendees from across the United States and several foreign countries have attended the webinars, says <strong>Dr. Johanna Bishop<\/strong>, director of Behavioral Science Programs, who has worked with students to gather data about the level of public awareness regarding human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmu.edu\/behavioralscience\/indexs.aspx\">The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences<\/a> also offers an 18-credit undergraduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmu.edu\/behavioralscience\/human-trafficking-awareness-certificate.aspx\">Human Trafficking Awareness Certificate program<\/a> in which medical personnel, law enforcement officers, and mental health professionals can learn to recognize and respond to signs related to human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Webinars will resume in the fall and will include a presentation by <strong>David R. Garlock<\/strong>, a sexual abuse survivor, returning citizen, and human rights advocate, focusing on disrupting human trafficking. For webinar information see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilmu.edu\/humantraffickingsymposium\/\">WilmU&#8217;s Human Trafficking Studies Webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<em>Eileen Smith Dallabrida<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilmington University is a leader in raising awareness of human trafficking, presenting eight webinars over the past four years featuring experts in the field, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[404,280,405,406,407,408,14,15],"class_list":["post-6225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-behavioral-science-program","tag-college-of-social-behavioral-science","tag-human-trafficking","tag-human-trafficking-education-and-awareness","tag-human-trafficking-studies","tag-human-trafficking-webinar","tag-wilmington-university","tag-wilmu"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"ACADEMIC NEWS"}],"post_tag":[{"value":404,"label":"behavioral science program"},{"value":280,"label":"College of Social &amp; 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