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Rachel Johnson

Lead Forensic Interview Specialist

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Biography

Rachel Johnson is a Forensic Interview Specialist with Zero Abuse Project. She most recently served as the Program Director for the Minnesota Children’s Alliance and has over a decade of experience in work related to forensic interviewing, multidisciplinary teams, advocacy, child abuse, prevention education, sexual assault and family violence, both domestically and abroad.

Prior to her work at the Alliance, Rachel served as a forensic interviewer and the Forensic Program Coordinator at First Witness Child Advocacy Center in Duluth, Minn. She is trained in multiple forensic interview protocols and received Bachelor of Science degrees in Public Service, Sociology and Spanish at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn.

Rachel is passionate about working directly with children and families, supporting frontline professionals and improving the institutional response to victimization by centering the experiences of victims at all levels of consideration and decision-making.

Additional Information

Forensic Interviewing
  • ChildFirst Forensic Interview Protocol training
  • Forensic interviewing of children
  • Expanded forensic interviews
  • Interviewing reluctant children
  • Shadow children - Addressing child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation within the family
  • Interviewing victims of trafficking
  • Overcoming difficult situations in forensic interviews
  • What question do I ask next?...Breaking down our forensic interviewing questions
  • Interviewing children with development challenges
  • Forensic interviews with adolescents
  • Forensic interviews with young children
  • Peer review and our forensic interviews
  • The use of anatomical dolls and diagrams in the forensic interview
  • Recording technology and the child interview
  • Conducting and Defending a Pandemic-Era Forensic Interview
  • Exploring multiple incidents and repeated events with young children
  • Forensic interviewer questions and suggestibility
  • Utilizing Language Interpretation in Child Abuse Interviews
Forensic Interviewing and Court
  • Defending the forensic interview in court
  • Forensic interviewers working with their prosecutor
  • Corroborating evidence within the scope of the forensic interview
  • Understanding and defending recantation in cases of child abuse
  • Preparing children for court
Law Enforcement Investigations
  • Developing effective MDTs
  • Corroborating the forensic interview
  • Recognizing child maltreatment
  • 911 calls involving children
  • Your FIRST response
  • Dynamics of abuse and maltreatment
  • Polyvictimization and our cases
  • Human trafficking
  • Testifying in court
  • Corroborating evidence
Multidisciplinary Team/CAC
  • Playing nice in the sandbox- Developing effective multidisciplinary teams
  • Preparing children for our process: Finding the balance between saying too much, but not saying enough
  • Responding to Child Abuse in a Pandemic: 25 tips for MDTs
  • Serving LGBTQIA+ Children and Families in the MDT Process
  • Child Advocacy Center development
Child Maltreatment
  • Our FIRST response to child maltreatment - First responder interviews
  • Mandated reporting
  • Child abuse dynamics and disclosure
  • Child development
  • Assessing children’s statements
Expert Witness
  • Forensic interviewing
  • Delayed disclosure
  • Recantation

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