Workshop 4

Child Exploitation: Indicators and good practice response to young survivors of modern slavery and exploitation

This workshop will examine potential indicators of modern slavery and exploitation in young survivors. We will explore a best practice response in enabling disclosure and providing appropriate support and advocacy for young people to ensure their rights and entitlements are respected and enabled.

Workshop 4

The Ketamine Conversation: From Use to Treatment Pathways

• What, Why, The Law & Supply 
• Pros & Cons – Recreational Perspectives 
• Physical and Psychological Concerns 
• Harm Reduction 
• Treatment Pathways & Signposting 
• The Psychedelic Renaissance 
• Questions 

Workshop 4

Sex Workers:
Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Sexual Health

This presentation outlines a partnership between Locala Sexual Health and the Lotus Project to reduce health inequalities among sex workers, who face increased sexual health needs and barriers to care including stigma, discrimination, housing instability, substance use, and mistrust of services.

It uses a flexible outreach model—home visits, drop-ins, fast-tracked clinic access, and an evening mobile clinic in the red-light district—supported by an engagement worker to build trust and continuity of care.

The initiative shows how targeted, adaptable outreach and partnership working can improve access, engagement, and outcomes while supporting sexual health, safety, and autonomy.

Workshop 4

Trauma: Understanding our tricky brain and how it uses our past experiences to inform our present

• An introduction to how the human brain has evolved—and why it sometimes works against us. 
• The three key emotion systems: Threat, Drive, and Soothe—and how they interact to shape our thoughts and feelings.
• How early life experiences influence our self-perception and emotional responses.
• Understanding the “inner critic” and why we often speak to ourselves more harshly than we would to anyone else.
• How self-compassion can quiet that inner critic and support your well-being.
• To start to apply this model to the people we support