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Mama Dorah: Uplifting Grassroots Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking

Presenter(s): 
Denise Anderson, PhD, MSW, LSW
$26.00
Member Price: 
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Training description: 
Human trafficking is the second largest organized crime (superseded only by drug trafficking) where over a million children are trafficked annually. This multibillion-dollar industry is a major issue throughout South Africa. The presentation provides a brief history of the problem on trafficking throughout the world, but especially in Johannesburg, South Africa. During this presentation, Dr. Anderson will apply a model for working with charities between one multicultural community church that partnered with Mama Dorah to keep fifty orphaned children fed, educated and protected from human traffickers. This intervention was intentional and well planned but not without trials. The issues faced and how they were addressed will also be discussed. Finally, a theology of caring for orphans is presented.
CE category: 
Direct Practice: Groups and Communities
No. of CE Hours: 
1.25
Training format: 
video-based
Practice Level(s): 
Intermediate: MSW Level
Target Audience: 
Social workers and related professionals
Social work students
Human services professionals
Clergy
Learning Objectives: 
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to: 
  • Articulate the incidence and scope of human trafficking in the world, but specifically South Africa.
  • Identify strategies and models currently being implemented in informal partnerships between churches and grassroots organizations
  • Recognize needs in one's own community related to human trafficking and describe ways in which social workers, church leaders and others can work together combat real world human trafficking problems.
View Training PowerPoint File: 
PDF icon AndersonD Human Trafficking 043018.pdf
Training Outline: 
1. Overview Human Trafficking - 10 min 2. Grassroots Human Trafficking Prevention: Dorah Ark - 10 min 3. Multi-cultural Congregation: Cornerstone - 10 min 4. Partnership - 5 min 5. Theology of Caring for Orphans - 5 min 6. A Model that Works - 10 min 7. Challenges and how they were Managed - 5 min 8. Identifying areas in one's own Community - 10 min 9. Questions and Answers - 10 min
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Presenter Bio: 
Denise Anderson, PhD, MSW, LSW, joined Olivet Nazarene University’s full-time faculty in 2016 and has 13 years of previous teaching experience in the field of social work. Her areas of specialty within social work are international social work, clinical/mental health, program evaluation and teaching. She is a Licensed Social Worker in the state of Pennsylvania. In addition, Dr. Anderson’s professional experience includes five years in clinical mental health, 10 years serving as a missionary in the area of compassionate ministries, and online program development and coordination of a bachelor's degree program in theology. Dr. Anderson is an ordained Elder in the Church of the Nazarene. She is also a member of the North American Association of Christian Social Workers and African Nazarene Women Clergy. One of her greatest joys in life is recruiting social work students, and she has done this for many programs worldwide. One of her favorite Bible verses is Ephesians 4:29, "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen."