
Overview:
This quarterly workgroup focuses on advancing human trafficking education, advocacy, and awareness across Missouri. Each meeting features a representative from a different agency, providing insights on topics such as training, advocacy, and survivor services. The workgroup fosters knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking, making it an excellent fit for advocates committed to improving outcomes for trafficking survivors and expanding education efforts statewide.
Purpose:
- Stay up to date on committee development.
- Review policies and legislation impacting trafficking survivors.
- Promote awareness of training initiatives and educational efforts.
- Foster a sense of community and collaboration among service providers.
- Guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of Standards of Care through Wave 1, 2, and 3 initiatives.
Presenter:
- Gateway Alliance Against Human Trafficking
- Virtual Meeting on TEAMS: Register here.

Training Summary:
In a world where identity can be a risk factor, LGBTQ+ youth face disproportionate vulnerabilities to human trafficking due to systemic discrimination, family rejection, housing insecurity, and limited access to affirming services. This powerful and interactive training explores the intersection of gender identity, sexual orientation, and exploitation, equipping advocates, service providers, and community leaders with the tools to respond with empathy, equity, and impact.
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the unique trafficking risks faced by LGBTQ+ youth, learn inclusive best practices for intervention and prevention, and explore how solidarity—not just support—can transform outcomes. Through survivor-informed insights, case-based scenarios, and strength-centered strategies, this training challenges attendees to reimagine what safety, justice, and healing can look like when LGBTQ+ youth are centered, affirmed, and empowered.
Whether you’re on the frontlines of advocacy or seeking to build a more inclusive response network, this session will inspire you to act with intention, ally with compassion, and lead with resilience.

Overview:
Access to programming for human trafficking survivors in Missouri is limited, with only a few programs available statewide. The Survivor Services Workgroup, led by CATE, engages service providers to:
- Stay up to date on committee development
- Share information about existing services for survivors.
- Assist in establishing solutions for the service gaps identified in the MoCATE Needs Assessment
- Foster collaboration to improve survivor access to programming.
- Statewide Networking
Purpose:
Support CATE in developing a statewide, coordinated community response by providing insights into regional trends and centering the survivor perspective in program access.
Presenter:
- TBD
- Virtual Meeting on TEAMS: Register here.

Overview:
This quarterly workgroup focuses on advancing human trafficking education, advocacy, and awareness across Missouri. Each meeting features a representative from a different agency, providing insights on topics such as training, advocacy, and survivor services. The workgroup fosters knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking, making it an excellent fit for advocates committed to improving outcomes for trafficking survivors and expanding education efforts statewide.
Purpose:
- Stay up to date on committee development.
- Review policies and legislation impacting trafficking survivors.
- Promote awareness of training initiatives and educational efforts.
- Foster a sense of community and collaboration among service providers.
- Guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of Standards of Care through Wave 1, 2, and 3 initiatives.
Presenter:
- TBD
- Virtual Meeting on TEAMS: Register here.