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The team at Zero Abuse Project is excited to share our quarterly CAST newsletter!

The next AVA and Zero Abuse ACEs Health Champions Gathering will be hosted on April 8, 2022 at 12 PM PT. The topic will focus on the question ‘Can No Hit Zones prevent ACEs and promote Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs)?‘ Our presenters will be Dr. Randell Alexander, MD, PhD and Dr. Suzanne Frank, MD. Dr. Alexander is a Professor of

Zero Abuse Project is pleased to announce the launch of a new journal for CAST-centered and multidisciplinary team (MDT)-derived publications from our colleagues at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). The Journal of Interprofessional Practice with Social Work (JIPSW) “is an open-source, semi-annual peer–reviewed publication that provides an interdisciplinary forum for information exchange spanning the variety of practice settings that incorporate care

The REAL Academy CEO Kevin Marino and Director of Research Robert Wright, are releasing a new book exploring the NC child protection landscape and how to improve MDT collaboration via a novel theory known as ‘Administrative Tethering.’

The team at Zero Abuse Project is excited to share our quarterly CAST newsletter!

The Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan, a project of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan, is now available. This resource delves into current research regarding interpersonal violence, providing a well-rounded look at topics including but not limited to historical context, intervention and treatment, policy discussion and case review.

Zero Abuse Project is pleased to announce that Marquette University Law School CAST Professor Lori Kornblum has been appointed by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers to the Court of Appeals District II effective in January 2022. We want to congratulate Lori on this professional achievement. All of us at Zero Abuse are forever grateful for her dedication to CAST instruction in WI and

Zero Abuse Project is pleased to see the number of strong proposals contained in the U.S. National Blueprint to End Sexual Violence Against Children and Adolescents. We are particularly excited to see the strong recommendations to improve undergraduate and graduate training of future child protection professionals–a reform we have taken the lead on through our Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) initiative.

Zero Abuse Project is pleased to announce that the statewide evaluation of CAST programming in Mississippi has concluded and the results are available for review here. Highlights of the study show that: CAST learners possess better child abuse and neglect (CAN) knowledge and skills versus non-CAST learners. CAST certificate and minor programming shows the greatest improvement of key CAN competency

The team at Zero Abuse Project is excited to share our quarterly CAST newsletter!

Shared with us from the University of Missouri-St. Louis As one of the few Child Advocacy Centers embedded within a university since 1997, Children’s Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis knew we wanted to align with the University of Missouri-St. Louis’s teaching mission in a meaningful way and leverage the expertise of working professionals in our center for UMSL students.

Researchers Ted Cross and Yu-Ling Chiu have analyzed the implementation of Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) in Mississippi and concluded the “CAST initiative has had considerable success and good prospects for enduring.” This is the 9th peer reviewed and published study on CAST. Read the study here.

The Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) is a worldwide organization dedicated to promoting health education and research as it pertains to the recognition, treatment, and prevention of the health effects of violence and abuse throughout the lifespan. As such, AVA has been a long supporter of Zero Abuse Project’s Child Advocacy Studies and Child Advocacy and Adult Studies (CAST,

The team at Zero Abuse Project is excited to share our quarterly CAST newsletter!

A success story shared with us by Dr. Jamie Tester Morfoot, Assistant Professor of Social Work at UWEC.

The team at Zero Abuse Project is excited to share our quarterly CAST newsletter!

The University of Illinois Springfield has partnered with Creative InformationTechnology, Inc. to beta-test app-based software to help modernize and improve childwelfare investigations. CAST students, under the guidance of Dr. Betsy Goulet, will be involved in the preliminary research surrounding these apps.

A success story shared with us by Dr. Jamie Tester Morfoot, Assistant Professor of Social Work at UWEC.

Providing Results: Mississippi CAST Initiative Eighteen months into a two-year evaluation project, the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Mississippi (CAC) is discovering valuable data to support their Children’s Advocacy Studies (CAST) Initiative. With the help of University of Illinois’s research team, the preliminary data has reinforced the significance of CAST courses at participating Mississippi colleges and universities. A two-year study was