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Welcome to the Zero Abuse Project Training Catalog!

You can use the filters on the to browse the full scope of training Zero Abuse Project is able to offer for your organization. Please note that the On Demand filter can be used to quickly identify our trainings that have been pre-recorded and are available to watch. Most other trainings are available for organizations to book on a fee-for-service basis.

Through our Trauma-informed Prosecutor Project, we are able to offer a select menu of trainings for Prosecutors and other MDT members at no cost. Please select the Trauma-informed Prosecutor Project filter to view these trainings.

If you are an individual seeking training, please visit our Events & Training Calendar to view and register for upcoming trainings hosted by Zero Abuse Project. Unfortunately, Zero Abuse Project cannot book an individual’s request for training.

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Understanding Child Abuse and the CAC and MDT Response

This course provides an overview of the dynamics of child abuse as well as the systems that respond to child abuse and maltreatment.

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Vicarious Trauma and Self-Care Strategies

Self-care should be an individual priority, but it cannot be achieved without support from your professional and personal communities. True self-care requires support and resources from leadership.

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Unto the Third Generation: A Call to End Child Abuse in 30 Years

In this moving and hopeful address, students will learn the five obstacles that prevent us from ending child abuse and will learn about sweeping changes now taking place in our child protection system that will enable us to significantly reduce and perhaps eliminate child abuse over the course of the next three generations. The keynote is based on a scholarly

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The Ten Things Every Youth-Serving Organization Needs to Know and Do in Keeping Children Safe

Attendees will recieve an overview of Centers for Disease Control best practices for youth serving organizations in preventing or responding to cases of child abuse. Participants will receive concrete steps for applying the CDC standards to be able to protect or respond with excellence to cases of physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect.

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You’re Awesome! Improving Your Advocacy Skills

You are remarkable, exceptional and amazing! You are a supporter, a believer, and a champion! Do you agree? As advocates we spend our days, and sometimes evenings, caring for and empowering others. Sometimes we forget to do the same for ourselves. Advocacy work is chosen out of compassion, empathy, experience or a belief in a cause. This is not easy

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The Ripple Effects of Sexual Harm

The spectrum of sexual harm is quite vast. The ways in which one person can sexually harm another is limitless. This presentation will engage the audience in a courageous conversation of sexual harm and abuse, the impact of sexual violence on the victim and the community, myths and misperception of sexual violence and prevalence, and current data. From child sexual

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Post-Trial Advocacy

This is not the end. Once the court makes the decision of Guilty or Not Guilty, the journey of healing for the victim continues. Regardless of the ruling of the court, the victim may experience a wide range of emotions from relief to guilt and from calm to fear. Safety planning should remain a priority. Restitution and/or victim compensation needs

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From Surviving to Thriving: Victim Empowerment

This presentation will discuss ways to engage survivors in your work or agency. Creating a variety of opportunities for survivors to “speak and tell” is vital for engagement. In addition to traditional support groups, demonstrating the potential of healing and hope through stories can lead to empowerment through finding their voice. Other methods of connection and support can occur in

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When The Child Trusts You: Trial Preparation With Abused and Neglected Children

One of the most critical aspects of a successful trial is the rapport between prosecutor and child. This workshop, presented by a former prosecutor, addresses several hypotheticals, discusses trauma-informed best practices for interacting with abused and neglected children, and reviews courtroom accommodations and trial strategies to support child witnesses.

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When The Child Trusts You: Understanding and Responding to Child Abuse Disclosures

A child just disclosed sexual abuse to you. What do you tell the child? Do you know your legal obligations? How can you respond without jeopardizing criminal investigations and the child’s safety? This workshop, presented by a former prosecutor, addresses several hypotheticals, discusses trauma-informed best practices for interacting with abused and neglected children, and reviews mandatory reporting law.

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No Time to Waste: Productivity Strategies for MDT Members

Many investigators, CPS workers, prosecutors, and other MDT members handle massive caseloads that greatly exceed recommended maximum ranges. This workshop, presented by a former prosecutor and psychologist, provides tips and tricks to upgrade case management and workflow for the overwhelmed child protection professional, including free tools, psychological insights, and easily-implemented strategies to accomplish more with the little time you have.

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No Words Needed: Working with Recanting and Nonverbal Victims

Recantation is not a death blow to a prosecution. In fact, many child sexual abuse cases have been won by prosecutors even when the child victim recanted or was nonverbal. Learn the facts about recantation in confirmed cases of child sexual abuse, and develop strategies to prevent recantation, minimize its effects, support victims throughout the judicial process, and succeed at

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Direct Examination of the Forensic Interviewer

This workshop equips prosecutors with strategies to prepare forensic interviewers for trial and maximize the utility and effectiveness of their testimony. Attendees will learn how to construct the direct examination of a forensic interviewer, with an emphasis on forensic interview admissibility considerations and how interviewer testimony sets up the cross-examination of defense experts. The presentation concludes with ten areas for

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Brick by Brick: How to Build a Cyberstalking Case

This workshop reviews a checklist of evidence and strategies for investigating cyberstalking cases. Presented by a former prosecutor, it also addresses relevant legal considerations, maximizing victim safety, best practices for handling cyberstalking complaints, and tactics utilized by cyberstalking perpetrators.

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Assemble: Building Effective Multidisciplinary Teams

Multidisciplinary approaches are critical to investigating and prosecuting child abuse, and empirically proven to maximize both case outcomes and child wellbeing. This workshop will discuss team models and concrete ideas for building and maintaining high-performance multidisciplinary teams.

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When Faith Hurts: Sexual Abuse Prevention Strategies for Communities of Faith

It is a powerful responsibility to ensure that children, youth, and vulnerable adults are able to thrive within a faith community. The importance of creating and maintaining safe places for ALL members, especially those unable to protect themselves, must be considered with great care. This session provides specific policies and practices to address while detailing why faith communities must be

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We Need to Talk: Pornography

This training will give youth workers, faith leaders, teachers, and caregivers tools to support them in having conversations with young people about pornography.

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Under a Watchful Eye: Child Abuse Prevention in Youth-Serving Organizations

Youth Serving Organizations can provide quality experiences for youth to grow and thrive under the care of staff and volunteers with the best interests of the youth. The sad reality is that any organization that provides access, time, and the ability to build relationships with youth are targeted by offenders as places to find possible targets. Most people are in

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Walking the Talk

The work we do matters. The way we treat our colleagues and clients matter. Using humor, story-telling, and anecdotes from the field, this session will remind listeners why self care is crucial and how we can learn and be inspired by others.

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Reporting without Re-Victimizing: Working with the Media

Is it possible for news stories to be reported accurately without re-victimizing crime survivors? How can a complicated problem be encapsulated into a short clip? Can we get media partners enthused about prevention? The media can serve as a way to get hopeful messages into the mainstream, or they may perpetuate old myths. This session begins the conversation about engaging

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Resiliency

Self-care should be an individual priority, but it can not be achieved without support from your professional and personal communities. True self-care requires support and resources from leadership. This workshop provides an overview of the research on the vicarious trauma of working with families impacted by trauma. There will be opportunities to self-assess how your professional community is helping in

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Child Abduction: Patterns, Profiles, and Prevention

Coverage of child abduction is often reactionary, focused on a specific case, and leaves the audience feeling helpless to protect. This session highlights the academic study and learning around the topic of Child Abduction with an intentional focus around patterns that emerge, profiles of abductors and targets, and replicable prevention strategies. This session intends to move past the shock value

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Your FIRST Response to Alleged Child Maltreatment

Protecting children from child abuse and maltreatment requires that everyone understand how to recognize, respond and report any form of maltreatment a child may experience. FIRST response is often the single most important step in effectively responding and reporting maltreatment. FIRST will give you and your community the tools necessary to better protect kids. The training combines both lecture and

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