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.
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
Understanding and Responding to the Sexual Behaviors of Children
This workshop details normal and abnormal sexual behaviors of youth and offers concrete recommendations for treatment and other services for children with sexual behavior problems. How a child who has offended against others can be integrated back into a family or group setting, and when, will also be discussed.
The History of Child Protection in the United States: Everything Old Is New Again
In this workshop, an overview of the history of the child protection movement in the U.S. will be presented, including contributory societal forces and key leaders, role of the medical community in creating awareness and mandated reporting laws, and the role of federal legislation in creating child protection systems.
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.
Community Notification Meetings: What Do I Say to the Children?
What can parents do when a convicted sex offender moves in down the street? This workshop gives specific information about HOW to talk about sexual abuse prevention without scaring children. It focuses not just on how children can protect themselves from a convicted sex offender, but anyone who may abuse or mistreat them. This workshop is usually a supplement to
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
Supporting the Non-Offending Caregiver
Child abuse cases can be heartbreaking and problematic even when the child victim has full support of family. These cases can become some of our most frustrating when the child is not supported. Understanding and supporting the non-offending caregiver, sometimes referred to as an overlooked victim, can be challenging for professionals. This training will help to identify behaviors and circumstances
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
Self Care: “How ARE You Doing?”
The amount of stress that everyone is feeling in a time where we have little answers can lead to feelings of overwhelm and help/hopelessness – not just for our clients, but also ourselves. This is truly a time to take care of ourselves before assisting others. This webinar will provide some tools for all ages and stages.
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.
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
Teachable Safety Skills for Professionals
This presentation focuses on what works when talking to children and teens about personal safety, online/cell phone safety, and sexual abuse prevention. Our agency is committed to using what we have learned in our 30+ years of case management in missing and exploited children to empower our audiences to walk around smart and not scared. This presentation is designed for
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.
Teachable Safety Skills: Replacing Myths with Facts
How do I talk to children about personal safety without scaring them to death? This presentation provides current information about various safety concerns children and teens are facing today – both in-person and online – and how to educate youth on those concerns in a positive way.
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
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.
Teachable Safety Skills for Community and Children’s Theaters
Theatre Companies and 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
Teachable Safety Skills for Dental Hygienists
The workshop uses current research to help the audience move past many of the myths repeated in this sound bite topic and recieve actual facts. This presentation focuses on what works when talking to children and teens about personal safety. In the last twenty years, the research has helped us move away from HOW a child knows a person and
Teachable Safety Skills for Medical Professionals
This presentation focuses on what works when talking to children and teens about personal safety. In the last twenty years, the research has helped us move away from HOW a child knows a person and instead focuses on how the person makes the child feel. Knowing that the people the child already knows provide the greatest risk for abduction and
Talk About Touches
Does your profession provide opportunities to talk to children about abuse prevention? This short overview for professionals (health care, law enforcement, etc.) provides tools and vocabulary to talk about touches.
Personal Safety Building Blocks: Consent and Empathy for Professionals
Consent and Empathy are two required values in building a world that respects the safety and dignity of others. Parents and professionals have asked for resources to make loaded conversations around sexual violence prevention manageable and empowering. This presentation answers that request by providing tools on teaching consent and empathy to children and teens using positive moments of connection. We
Online Safety Conversations for Schooling at Home
This presentation is for caregivers and professionals who support students attending school online. We will lay a foundation for family discussions and a response to online dangers now and in the future.
