Seeing What Often Goes Unseen: Identifying and Supporting Survivors of Exploitation

This training is intended for both those experienced in supporting CSE survivors and those new to this work, alike, social service providers, public health, and housing providers as well as agencies that work specifically with Gender-Based Violence survivors but may not have expertise in CSE. This event is co-hosted by the City of Seattle, King County Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy, and the Coalition Ending Gender-based Violence.

Audrey Baedke, Jasmine Conway, and Sarah Ciambrone are co-facilitating the training. The training will be followed by a panel of local CSE providers to discuss their work and learned strategies, including recent responses to the potential rise of CSE during FIFA/World Cup.

Training Topics:

• What is CSE? How to recognize it. Who is affected.
• How to assist survivors in accessing resources.
• Crisis response for CSE.
• Working with Specific populations such as immigrants, LGBTQIA+, youth (especially minors).
• Housing and shelter resources for survivors of CSE.
• Navigating working with those affected by CSE who may not identify as survivors or wish to leave “the life”
• How CSE interplays within Human Trafficking

About our Facilitators:

Audrey Baedke first learned about human trafficking as a young adult when a friend was recruited by a pimp. Since then, she has spent more than 20 years working alongside survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking. She co-founded and led a nonprofit serving survivors, trained thousands of professionals across sectors including housing, healthcare, education, and social services, and helped communities strengthen their responses to exploitation. Today, Audrey combines survivor advocacy, coaching, training, and community organizing to support both individual growth and systems change. She currently helps coordinate statewide collaborative efforts to improve prevention, survivor support, and accountability across Washington, bringing a practical, survivor-informed perspective to the work of building safer and more connected communities.

Jasmine Conway, M.A., is a survivor of human trafficking, researcher, and founder of One Survivor to Another. For a decade, she has worked to bring awareness and strengthen responses to exploitation, trafficking, and gender-based violence through advocacy, prevention education, peer support, research, training, and cross-sector collaboration. Drawing from both lived experience and professional expertise, Jasmine is committed to ensuring that survivors are understood, honored, and centered in the policies, services, and systems that impact their lives. She has contributed to statewide efforts to strengthen survivor-centered approaches, including leading research on the impacts of the commercial sex industry on Black and African American women in Washington State. Today, she brings together insights from survivors, service providers, communities, and systems across Washington to implement coordinated responses, strengthen collaboration, and improve outcomes for survivors.

Sarah Ciambrone, Coordinator, Washington Advisory Council on Trafficking (WARN), a dynamic coalition led by the International Rescue Committee in Washington, uniting non-governmental organizations to offer direct support to victims of human trafficking across Washington State. Since our inception in 2004, we’ve been committed to assisting survivors of sex and labor trafficking in achieving their desired lives, free from re-victimization. WARN's coalition, including key partners API Chaya and Real Escape from the Sex Trade (REST), excels in delivering community-based and culturally informed services. The WARN collaborative efforts ensure the provision of comprehensive, linguistically appropriate, and low-barrier access to support for those most vulnerable to trafficking.

ASL Interpreters will be present.

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