Recognizing Grooming Before Exploitation™ Master Class

Recognizing Grooming Before Exploitation™ Master Class is a comprehensive, survivor-led online certificate course designed to help you recognize the patterns of grooming before exploitation occurs.

Through more than five hours of professionally narrated instruction, you'll gain a deeper understanding of how grooming develops, why it is so often overlooked, and how offenders build trust, manipulate relationships, test boundaries, and create dependency over time. Rather than focusing only on warning signs, this Master Class teaches you to understand the entire grooming process so you can identify concerning behaviors earlier and respond with greater confidence.

Grounded in lived experience and years of prevention education, advocacy, and legislative work, this survivor-informed course combines practical instruction with real-world examples to provide a unique learning experience.

Whether you're a parent, grandparent, educator, healthcare professional, child welfare professional, law enforcement officer, faith leader, volunteer, or community member, you'll leave this course with practical knowledge you can apply immediately to help protect children, teens, and vulnerable adults.

WHAT YOU GET

✔ More than 5 hours of survivor-led grooming prevention education

✔ Professionally narrated audio and written lessons by Sheri Lopez which can be accessed online or via the Teachable app

✔ Self-paced learning with the ability to pause and resume where you left off, with read or listen options, or a combination of both

✔ Lifetime access to the course

✔ A Certificate of Completion upon successful completion of the course and post-course questionnaire

✔ Practical, real-world strategies you can begin using immediately

✔ Survivor-informed education grounded in lived experience and years of prevention, advocacy, and legislative work

Prevention begins long before exploitation occurs. It begins with recognizing the patterns.

Join me as we work together to help protect children, teens, and vulnerable adults through education, awareness, and prevention.





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Special Pricing for Nonprofits & Survivor Service Organizations

At the Survivor Informed Learning Institute, we believe organizations serving survivors should have access to high-quality, survivor-led education.

If your nonprofit provides services to human trafficking survivors or works to prevent exploitation, we'd be honored to partner with you.

Special nonprofit pricing is available for:

✔ Human trafficking survivor service organizations

✔ Prevention and advocacy nonprofits

✔ Staff and volunteer training

✔ Small teams and organization-wide enrollments

✔ Customized training packages designed to fit your mission and budget

Together, we can equip more professionals and volunteers with the knowledge to recognize grooming before exploitation occurs and better support children, teens, vulnerable adults, and survivors.

Interested in nonprofit or organizational pricing?

Contact Sheri Lopez
📧 Sheri@PearlAtTheMailbox.org

Because prevention is strongest when communities learn together.




Sheri Lopez is a human trafficking survivor, prevention educator, speaker, author, and survivor advocate dedicated to helping communities recognize grooming before exploitation occurs.

As the founder of Pearl at the Mailbox, a nonprofit organization focused on grooming prevention, the Survivor Informed Learning Institute, and the Arizona Human Trafficking Survivor Coalition, Sheri has educated thousands of professionals and community members across the United States on grooming prevention, human trafficking, exploitation, and survivor-informed practices.

Sheri's expertise is shaped by both lived experience and years of prevention education, legislative advocacy, and collaboration with professionals nationwide. She has testified before the United States Congress on human trafficking, contributed to state and federal legislative efforts, served as a lived-experience expert witness in human trafficking criminal cases, and authored books focused on grooming prevention and exploitation.

After surviving seven years of trafficking that began with grooming at the age of fifteen, Sheri has dedicated her life to helping others recognize the patterns she was never taught to see. Today, she equips parents, educators, healthcare professionals, child welfare professionals, law enforcement, faith leaders, businesses, and communities with practical, survivor-informed education designed to help prevent exploitation before it begins.

"My mission is simple: to help people recognize grooming before exploitation occurs. Because prevention begins with recognizing the patterns." — Sheri Lopez