{"id":114503,"date":"2022-11-01T22:57:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114503"},"modified":"2022-11-01T23:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T03:01:48","slug":"1st-annual-lehigh-valley-anti-trafficking-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114503","title":{"rendered":"1st  Annual Lehigh Valley Anti-Trafficking Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lvantitraffickingweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/lvantitraffickingweek.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Human Trafficking Symposium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme<\/strong>: Building Community Sharing Hope<br \/>\n<strong>Date\/Time<\/strong>: November 9, 9:00 AM &#8211; 2:30 PM<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Barristers Club, 1114 Walnut St, Allentown, PA 18102<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0Shea Rhodes, Director of The Villanova Law Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation<\/p>\n<p>Shea is the statewide legal expert on Pennsylvania sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation laws. Co-Founder and Director of the Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE Institute) at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium will additionally feature several panel discussions with law enforcement and community professionals dedicated to combating human trafficking in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year\u2019s panel facilitators:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Alycha Boehm, MSW, LSW (Valley Youth House) &amp; Catharine Kessack, MSW, LSW (Valley Against Sex Trafficking)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The symposium panels are;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Law Enforcement Panel:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Duncanson &#8211; FBI,\u00a0Rob Schopf -Senior Deputy District Attorney, Lehigh County, Brent Morral &#8211; DHS<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boots on the Ground Panel:\u00a0<\/strong>Christina Diperrio (VYH Street Outreach), Darnell Davis (ASPIRE to Autonomy),\u00a0 Honani Cuadrado (LVHN), Sara Meck (LC Children and Youth), Nicole Miller (LC JPO)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Housing Models Panel:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Carol Anderson (Bloom), Megan Sell (VYH THRIVE), Sarah Silverman (ASPIRE)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trauma Informed Care Panel:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Heather Evans, DSW LCSW (Valley Against Sex Trafficking, Evans Counseling LCC), Alycha BoehmMSW, LSW (Valley Youth House), Amber Karom MSW, LCSW, CCTP (ASPIRE to Autonomy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Students are free with ID<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>To register:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whennow.com\/event\/2022-anti-human-trafficking-symposium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/whennow.com\/event\/2022-anti-human-trafficking-symposium&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1667438544965000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1LL4ofO4yruZQeOOqyci4_\">https:\/\/whennow.com\/event\/<wbr \/>2022-anti-human-trafficking-<wbr \/>symposium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/lvantitraffickingweek.com\/ Human Trafficking Symposium Theme: Building Community Sharing Hope Date\/Time: November 9, 9:00 AM &#8211; 2:30 PM Location:\u00a0Barristers Club, 1114 Walnut St, Allentown, PA 18102 Keynote Speaker:\u00a0Shea Rhodes, Director of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1st  Annual Lehigh Valley Anti-Trafficking Symposium<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/LVAT-anti-trafficing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}