Stop Child Trafficking in Your Community: Become an ACT Advocate

2.0 NAPNAP Contact Hours. This continuing education activity rate is 40$ for NAPNAP Members and for non- members. 

This life-saving, innovative workshop and leadership opportunity is specifically developed for pediatric focused NPs to learn about child trafficking, methods of identification and referral and, most importantly, prevention. There are more people enslaved in labor and/or sex trafficking than at any point in history, meaning children of all socio-economic profiles are at risk with some populations more vulnerable than others. Alliance for Children in Trafficking (ACT) Advocates will receive a certificate of recognition as a trained expert who will then be able to deliver this unique content to healthcare professionals and lay people in your community.

Become An ACT Advocate

Do you want to help us fight trafficking? Becoming an ACT Advocate is a great opportunity to teach people at your place of employment and in your community how to identify and aid labor and sex trafficking victims and potential victims. After completing this course, click here to follow the steps to join our growing ACT Advocate community.

This continuing education activity is administered by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) as an Agency providing continuing education credit. Individuals who complete this program and earn a 70% or higher score on the post test will be awarded 2.0 NAPNAP contact hours, of which 0 is pharmacology.

Participants are forbidden to reproduce, republish, redistribute, or resell this course in any other form. For copyright-related questions, please email your question to: ce@napnap.org

Copyright 2021 © by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)

Target Audience

Pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses

Learning Objectives

Equip pediatric HCPs to identify potential signs of human trafficking in victims who present for care in a medical setting.
Integrate multi-disciplinary care models to aid in victim recovery.
Explore the pediatric HCP role in prevention, treatment, advocacy and aftercare.

Additional Information

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PDF icon ACT Advocate Presentation Handout1.27 MB

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 Contact hours
Course opens: 
06/04/2019
Course expires: 
07/31/2023
Cost:
$40.00

Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP: Associate Professor, Texas A&M Corpus Christi College of Nursing, Corpus Christi, Texas
Tresa E. Zielinski, DNP, RN, APN-NP, CPNP-PC: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago

Disclosure:

Drs. Peck and Zielinski disclose that they are the Directors/Co Chairs of NAPNAP Partners' Alliance for Children in Trafficking.

This continuing education activity is accredited to award 2.0 NAPNAP contact hours, of which 0 is pharmacology, per the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Continuing Education Guidelines.

Available Credit

  • 2.00 Contact hours

Price

Cost:
$40.00
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