One Day Virtual Training

In this 1.5 hour virtual course, you will be familiarized with five steps to victim assistance, Provide Privacy, Educate, Ask, Respect, Respond (PEARR) Tool.

This education is recommended for anyone who is in the position to assist Human Trafficking victims, to include law enforcement, social workers, nurses, and chaplains. The PEARR steps were developed in partnership with physicians and other health professionals from Health, Educate, Advocacy, Linkage (HEAL) Trafficking and Pacific Survivor Center, an organization committed to advancing health and human rights in the Hawai’i-Pacific region. PEARR represents five key steps for providing victim assistance to patients in a traumainformed manner: Provide privacy, Educate, Ask, Respect and Respond.

This training will only be offered on a virtual platform All Registrants will receive a virtual link prior to the training via e-mail.

About the Instructor

The instructor for this learning opportunity is Wendy Barnes, Coordinator of the Human Trafficking
Prevention & Response program at CommonSpirit Health and a survivor of child sexual abuse, sex
trafficking, and intimate partner violence. Wendy is a national speaker, using her own experiences to
educate and empower audiences in the fight against exploitation. Her story illustrates how abuse can
make a young person vulnerable and serves as an example that freedom and restoration are possible.
When educating audiences, Wendy often shares examples from her own experience while she was
being trafficked. Wendy was trafficked by the father of her children for over ten years. During that time,
Wendy had multiple encounters with health care professionals, first responders, including law
enforcement officers, firefighters, and the judicial system.

Wendy has an Associate’s Degree in General Studies and has written a memoir, And Life Continues: Sex
Trafficking and My Journey to Freedom. Wendy also co-authored a chapter in Human Trafficking Is a
Public Health Issue: A Paradigm Expansion in the United States (Springer, 2017) and co-authored two
chapters in Medical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescents (Springer, 2020). Wendy has
appeared on talk shows such as Dr. Phil, and her story has been featured in news features and
documentaries, including Flesh: Bought and Sold in the U.S. Wendy has consulted with numerous
organizations, including Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign, the National Human Trafficking Training
and Technical Center (NHTTAC); and Not For Sale. Wendy has also provided education to law
enforcement officers and students at numerous universities, including Vanguard University and St.
Mary’s College of California.