Welcome to the INAHT Hotel/Motel Training Video facilitators’ information and resources section that was designed especially for use by INAHT affiliate members and organizations. In it, you will find the information you need to effectively facilitate hotel/motel employee training (whether face-to-face, hybrid, or virtual) in your area of the State. Please scan the plethora of resources we have created for you and feel free to utilize any or all that you might find helpful to assist you in training our fellow Iowans in the Hospitality Industry. Our overall goal is to stop human exploitation, help shrink the playing field of traffickers in Iowa’s hotels/motels and ultimately help make Iowa a Trafficking-Free State.

Thank you for joining efforts with the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking in this very important endeavor. If you have questions and/or need further assistance, please contact INAHT Coalition leaders in your area or any of our current INAHT Board members. You may also email Dr. Joe at joseph.moravec@mchs.edu.

INAHT “No Room for Trafficking” Training Videos

NAHT “No Room for Trafficking” Training Video (English)

NAHT “No Room for Trafficking” Training Video (with English Subtitles/Transcript)

No Room For Trafficking: How to stop trafficking in Iowa hotels (Spanish Subtitles)

Why Use the INAHT Training Video?

(download PDF of Why Use the INAHT Training Video? by clicking here)

Key advantages for using our INAHT “No Room for Trafficking” Video for training hotel/motel employees include the following:

  • It is very compelling: designed especially to appeal to the employees’ hearts and souls, not just to their heads. Thus, employees will more likely choose/want to get involved in observing/reporting possible human trafficking incidents and not just because they have to be involved.
  • It portrays real stories of two survivors (one sex and another labor) and of a former buyer.
  • It features two leaders of service provider agencies in Iowa, representative of the many faith and non-faith-based organizations that help those victimized.
  • It is the culminated production of 18 months of the best practice, collaborative efforts among leaders from all of the INAHT human trafficking coalitions throughout Iowa. As such, it was produced by Iowans and with Iowans concerning human trafficking in Iowa. This means that the speakers, actors and actresses are from Iowa; the scenery and background are photos from various places around the State, the scenarios shared are stories related to the speaker’s experiences including those in Iowa, and the statistics mentioned are significant to Iowa.
  • The INAHT training video is professionally filmed and produced by a very gifted film producer.
  • It effectively covers both sex and labor trafficking in Iowa according to Iowa law in a single, contiguous training package.
  • It frees a training facilitator to be more available and more readily able to engage/connect with the audience, since all of the basic, required information is dealt with in and by the video itself. Thus, it allows more time for Q & A and learning reinforcement (e.g. quiz-taking, discussion, personal elaboration).
  • Free supplemental materials (individualized, plastic badge sleeves with informational inserts) along with colorful Posters (11”x17”) are available to management and employees. These types of resources are very personal and innovative.
  • It is available in full versions for hearing-challenged (subtitles/transcript) and for Spanish-speaking audiences [Soon to be released].
  • The video training is easily accessible to users via multiple formats. For users with reliable internet use, training can be streamed via website links. For non-internet use, a flash-drive copy of these versions can be downloaded and copied to any personal computer and then utilized. [Also, if needed, a pre-loaded flash-drive is available from the INAHT, on request.]
  • It is a fast-moving, 36 minutes of training, but doesn’t seem to be that long according to those already trained. Also, a 2-minute Promotional Introductory Video is available by INAHT that creates interest and highlights many of these outstanding features.
  • It was the very first non-DPS, training module approved and certified by the Department of Public Safety (DPS). The INAHT training video is listed on the www.StopHTIowa.org website immediately after the DPS training module.

As mentioned above, the INAHT provides a Facilitator’s Toolkit for those coalition training facilitators who want to use our INAHT Training Video in the most effective way, plus supplemental handouts and posters. Please email requests for these and any other items along with any questions and requests for additional support to Shirlee Reding (shirlee421@gmail.com) or Dr. Joe Moravec (joseph.moravec@mchs.edu).

INAHT Hotel Training Video Facilitator’s Toolkit and Resources

(download PDF of Hotel Training Video Facilitator’s Toolkit by clicking here)

Although our INAHT video does the training, it is highly recommended that the video training be facilitated, preferably by a person who is knowledgeable about human trafficking. Nevertheless, this Facilitator’s Toolkit with resources was created as a helpful guide with a suggested time table to assist those seeking to effectively use the INAHT video for training hotel/motel employees.

Several Weeks Before Training Date

  • If desiring to have a co-facilitator, make those arrangements within your organization
  • Contact hotels / motels to request training opportunities.
    • Use Why Use the INAHT Training Video? document as a guide
    • Invite them to watch the two and a half minute ‘trailer” that provides a brief sample of the training video
  • Make arrangements to have posters, quad-fold handouts, plastic sleeves for audience
  • Consider placing the PowerPoint, video links, website links, and PDF documents on a thumb drive to assure access
  • Video links:

One Week Prior to Training Date

  • Call hotel manager to confirm all arrangements
  • Date for training
  • Meeting location
  • Conference room availability
  • Audience size
  • Audience language mix
  • Training room set-up
    • Tables and chairs to accommodate audience size *
    • Availability of projector *
    • Availability of screen *
    • Availability of laptop and HDMI cord (if necessary, make arrangements to provide your own laptop with HDMI cord of sufficient length) *
    • Availability of internet access (Wireless? Password?) *
  • Complete the arrangements to have posters, quad-fold handouts, plastic sleeves for audience
  • Make arrangement to meet with hotel manager at least an hour before training meeting:
    • To discuss training
    • Review www.StopHTIowa.org FAQs
    • To discuss their role and requirement in preserving employee documents
    • To discuss process of uploading test results
    • To discuss how to request hotel certification
    • To discuss displaying certification poster
    • To encourage hotel manager to create a human trafficking response team for their hotel, composed of hotel manager, someone in law enforcement and a human trafficking victim advocate

One Day Prior to Training Date

On Training Date

  • Arrive at training location an hour before meeting start time, with laptop, handouts, and training material
  • Inform staff and hotel manager of your arrival
  • Set up and prepare training room
  • Tables and chairs
  • Water for participants, if available
  • Laptop with PowerPoint prepared to start
  • Test sheets available, along with an answer guide (appropriate languages)
  • Quad-fold handouts and plastic sleeves
  • Poster available for hotel
  • Test the electronics and software to make sure they all function
  • Check the links on the PowerPoint slides to confirm that they are operational

After Training Session

  • Assist hotel manager to upload test results and request certification from DPS if all employees have completed training and received 100% on the test, via www.StopHTIowa.org
  • Retrieve excess materials and equipment
  • Review session with hotel manager, offering continued support on human trafficking awareness

After Training Date

  • Maintain contact with hotel manager until they have formed hotel relationships with someone from law enforcement and a human trafficking victim support advocate

* Indicates training session equipment and supplies

Suggested Facilitator’s Training Session Power Point

This is a PowerPoint template that facilitators can contextualize (with their own organization named) and use as a wrap-around with the video embedded for the entire training session. It includes some definitions of some uncommon terms used in the video pertaining to the Iowa Code: Facilitator’s Training Session Power Point (pptx)

Supplemental Training Resources

Employee Breakroom Poster

Employee Badge Insert

INAHT makes available personal, plastic badges with information as a follow-up to the training video and session. Please email requests for these and any other items along with any questions and requests for additional support to Shirlee Reding (shirlee421@gmail.com) or Dr. Joe Moravec (joseph.moravec@mchs.edu).

DPS Certification Quizzes

Posted here are DPS quizzes (blank and answer keys) available to training facilitators from DPS in English, Spanish and Bosnian languages. Please copy and administer appropriately.

Additional Video Training Resources for Facilitators

INAHT Facilitators’ Training Zoom Meeting

It is highly recommended that potential facilitators view this recording of a webinar meeting of INAHT facilitators led by Dr. Susan Mitchell on the effective use of the INAHT Hotel Training Video and resources:

Department of Public Safety Webinar for Training Facilitators

This is a copy of the initial Department of Public Safety Webinar that they recorded explaining the general information and procedures for training hotel/motel leaders: DPS Lodging Provider Webinar (PDF)

NOTE: It is important that training facilitators familiarize themselves with the www.StopHTIowa.org website information including the FAQs in order to clearly understand all of the DPS requirements for facilitators, hotel/motel managers and employees.

Requests for Training

If you are a Hospitality Industry business leader and would like the INAHT to offer face-to-face and/or hybrid training of your staff at your facility, please contact INAHT Coalition leaders in your area or any of our current INAHT Board members. You may also email Dr. Joe at joseph.moravec@mchs.edu.

Next Steps Beyond Training: Iowa Businesses Against Trafficking (IBAT) Initiative

If you are an employee, a business leader and/or know a business leader, please consider increasing your impact in combatting human trafficking in Iowa by becoming a Registered Member of the Iowa Secretary of State’s Iowa Businesses Against Human Trafficking (IBAT) program. Sponsored by the Safe at Home Program, the IBAT initiative provides recognition and resources for Iowa business members who are willing to make an annual commitment to “Learn Something” and “Do Something” in order to fight human trafficking in Iowa. The INAHT is the primary supporter of this endeavor by providing basic and maximum impact pathways to help increase a businesses’ capacity to make its organization and community a trafficking-free zone. Hotels and motels certified by DPS have a head start in becoming IBAT businesses. IBAT information will be available soon. Please check back.

Again, thank you for joining efforts with the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking in helping train hotel/motel employees. Please peruse this website for additional informational resources. If you have questions and/or need further assistance in educating your community and raising awareness in combatting human trafficking, please contact INAHT Coalition leaders in your area or any of our current INAHT Board members. You may also email Dr. Joe at joseph.moravec@mchs.edu. INAHT’s vision is to end human trafficking in all its forms in Iowa.