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Speaking Topics
Liz brings lived experience, education, and advocacy together to create honest conversations around difficult topics. Her presentations are tailored to the audience, with a strong focus on awareness, prevention, education, and empowerment.
Human Trafficking Awareness & Prevention
Understanding trafficking, exploitation, recruitment, grooming, and the realities young people may face.
Recognizing the Warning Signs
Helping parents, educators, professionals, and communities recognize behaviors and situations that may signal vulnerability or exploitation.
Hard Conversations with Kids & Teens
How to talk openly and appropriately with young people about difficult subjects without creating fear.
Online Safety & Exploitation
Understanding the risks young people encounter online, including manipulation, grooming, and exploitation.
Boundaries, Manipulation & Healthy Relationships
Helping young people recognize unhealthy behaviors, understand boundaries, and develop the confidence to speak up.
Empowering Teenage Boys
Addressing the unique conversations boys need to have about respect, relationships, manipulation, exploitation, and making healthy choices.
Survivor Voice, Resilience & Recovery
Sharing the realities of surviving exploitation while highlighting hope, resilience, healing, and the power of using your voice.
From Awareness to Action
Moving beyond knowing the facts to understanding what parents, professionals, communities, and young people can actually do.
Who Liz Speaks To
Liz speaks to the people who have the power to make a difference—from the adults who protect and guide young people to the young people themselves.
Parents & Families
Helping parents understand the risks young people face and giving them tools for difficult conversations.
Kids & Teens
Providing age-appropriate education that builds awareness, confidence, and the ability to recognize unhealthy situations.
Educators & Schools
Equipping teachers and school communities to recognize concerns and create safer environments for students.
Medical & Mental Health Professionals
Bringing greater awareness of trafficking, exploitation, and the signs that may otherwise be missed.
Social Workers & Community Professionals
Supporting those who work directly with vulnerable children, teens, and families.
Organizations, Churches & Community Groups
Creating awareness and equipping communities to have meaningful conversations and take action.
What People Are Saying
"I had the privilege of attending a session led by Liz Midkiff, where she taught my youth group about human trafficking. Liz was incredibly creative and managed to fully engage both the teens and adults present. Through her dynamic teaching, we gained an understanding of human trafficking, learned to identify warning signs, and discovered practical ways for teens to support friends who might be at risk. Liz's expertise and engaging approach made an impact on all of us. I highly recommend her for any educational program on this important issue."
Rev. David Starkey - Pine Meadows Wesleyan Church