PCMN has partnered with World Hope International’s Anti-Trafficking Program Director ( Asia ) Kristin Wiebe to conduct the training on Hands That Heal, an international curriculum to train caregivers of trafficking. It is a comprehensive, international written, Christian curriculum designed to train current and future caregivers of trafficking survivors on April 21-24, 2009 at the Asia Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, Taytay, Rizal.
PCMN is an association of Christian organizations and churches that responds to issues of children at risk. It has an on-going program on anti-trafficking in persons in Samar, Davao City and General Santos City. In the last 3 years, 50,000 people received information on anti-anti-trafficking campaign conducted by church leaders in communities affiliated with PCMN. At least 300 children were either rescued, or given aftercare services and prevented from being trafficked.
The purpose of the Hands That Heal Community Based Curriculum:
To provide a community-based curriculum in an interactive educational format that can be used in local communities and churches around the world to:
- Increase the knowledge and understanding of the commercial sex trade,
- Raise awareness of the multifaceted needs of trafficking survivors, and
- Train potential caregivers in introductory transformational care.
Hands That Heal is being used by secular and faith-based universities, churches and community groups to inspire people to engage in the battle against human trafficking and to provide training on how to provide transformational care to survivors of trafficking. The curriculum was developed by The Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking FAAST, a group of faith-based, non-profit organizations that are committed to the eradication of trafficking and slavery worldwide. The FAAST curriculum is the result of collaboration among more than 40 academicians and field practitioners from diverse backgrounds and organizations that address the needs of trafficked individuals.
Topics include:
• Defining Trafficking in Persons
• Emotional Responses/Addressing Grief
• Introduction to Biblical Themes
• Spiritual Needs
• Understanding Community Mobilization (CB only)
• Family Issues and Reunification
• Examples of Care/Community Response
• Recognizing Cost as Caregivers
• Culture and Human Trafficking
• Challenges to Transformation
• Common Health Problems
Individuals that will serve as trainers for caregivers and child development workers within their own organization/community group and/or for other organizations/community groups that are responding to local trafficking issues are expected to be participants to this training.
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