MelKai
Consulting
Support
Melissa provides support and consultation for organizations, task forces, teams and/or individuals with their anti-trafficking efforts, team development, team building, person-centered and trauma-informed approaches, interview considerations, and vicarious trauma/wellness efforts.
brainstorm
Contact Melissa to implement ideas, problem solve, and improve your current efforts to enhance techniques and approaches, training, conference planning, policy, protocol development, and grant preparation.
training
Melissa is an experienced keynote speaker and presenter. She specializes in human trafficking, team development, and wellness for those in high-stress work environments.
supporting efforts
how can I help?
Consultation and Assistance
1 – Planning sessions
- Trainings and conferences
- Protocol and policy
- Organizational response
2 – Anti-human trafficking efforts
- Protocol and policy development
- Outreach
- Victim and survivor approaches and interview considerations
- Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) development and maintenance
3 – Wellness and Vicarious Trauma
- Support for high-stress professions
- Work-place culture change and considerations
- Writing and editing of policies and protocols
Public Speaking
- Human trafficking
- Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)
- Intersectionality of CSEC and social media
- Cyber sexual abuse and human trafficking
- Person-centered and trauma-informed approaches and interviews
- MDT purposes, development and maintenance
- Wellness, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue
media
Podcasts
- Melissa Kaiser /. Human Trafficking Expert / Secondary Trauma (buzzsprout.com)
- Catfish Cops: Episode 108: Melkai Consulting, LLC on Apple Podcasts
- Team Talk Podcast – Northeast Regional Children’s Advocacy Center (nrcac.org)
- Melissa Kaiser – LBSW & Anti-Human Trafficking Speaker (cjevolution.com)
- Episode 191: Understanding Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Trauma and the Differences Between Both — Dr. Celia Williamson
what people say...
“Melissa has helped so much! From the basics of human trafficking, to supporting our team as we create protocols, she is a great leader, teacher, and facilitator.”
“I was unaware of how much I needed to participate in this webinar. It was super helpful to me. Thank you so much!”
“I would have been able to spend an entire day on this session alone because Melissa covered so much in the hour. Her references and slides are very well put together and I will be sharing with my home team. Thank you for an amazing presentation!”
“Content was exceptionally good and related completely to work in this field. Very easy to listen to presenter that used the time well. Overall Excellent!”
“One of the best, most comprehensive presentations on this topic I’ve ever seen!”
about
Melissa is a licensed social worker, specializing in anti-human trafficking work, developing and maintaining multi-disciplinary teams, and secondary traumatic stress and officer wellness. Melissa is a certified trainer in Green Dot, Compassion Fatigue, GEMS, Stand to Protect, My Life My Choice, and SHARP, and is Child Welfare and Safe Zone/PRIDE trained. She has nine years of experience providing national/international training and technical assistance for those who serve victims and survivors of human trafficking.
Melissa’s past experience includes human trafficking victim/survivor case management and crisis response, treatment foster care, youth homelessness, victim/witness programming, prevention education, and psychiatric and addictions. She was the first Human Trafficking Navigator and Victim/Witness Specialist in ND, with seven years of program development within ND.
Melissa was a nominee for the YWCA’s Women of the Year 2020.
Melissa has been a member of the North Dakota Human Trafficking Task Force since its inception in 2016. She is currently chair of the Lived Experience Subcommittee and vice-chair of the Labor Trafficking Subcommittee. Melissa is also a board member for Fargo PD’s Badges of Unity.
She developed a human trafficking program and protocol response for ND, per grant deliverables. Melissa also assisted in the development of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Victim/Witness Program and was the first Specialist hired for that role.
Melissa has trained over 13,000 students and professionals, and has been featured at the IAHTI, GRIT Wyoming, Shared Hope, IACP, NCPTF, Dallas CAC, National Cyber Crimes, and IHTSJ conferences, specific to human trafficking, team development, interview approaches and considerations, person-centered and trauma informed responses, secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue, and the implementation of programming for first responders created in ND.
She currently resides in St. Petersburg, FL, providing training and consulting services around the country.
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ready to start?
Are you ready to receive support for your anti-human trafficking efforts?
Are you open to normalizing the experience of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue in your work place?
Reach out for remote training and consulting, in-person opportunities, and pricing.
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