Foster Care Training

Nola Brantley Speaks provides trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and resiliency-based trainings on trauma and commercial sexual exploitation for providers in the social service field. Nola Brantley Speaks utilizes a survivor-clinician training model, which provides participants with the theoretical foundation of concepts along with real life examples. The trainings are designed in a way to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to empower youth and families. Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Transitional Age Youth 101” is training which provides participants with an overview of commercial sexual exploitation. Unlike other CSEC 101 trainings, Nola Brantley Speaks focuses on the experiences of girls, boys (as victims, exploiters, and buyers), and transgender youth. The training will provide participants with an overview of societal factors that contribute to commercial sexual exploitation such as the objectification and sexualization of women and girls, toxic masculinity, homophobia, transphobia, etc. Participants will also learn about CSEC risk factors and warning signs.