Single parents with foster care experience must overcome many unique challenges as adults. Foster parents, foster youth, social workers, mental health professionals and other child welfare professionals are invited to attend this online event. … [Read more...]

Engage with over 700 child and family serving professional from across the state. Attendees include social workers, parent educators, court appointed special advocates, family resource center staff, clinicians, law enforcement and others. … [Read more...]

Professionals who deal with child maltreatment are under a tremendous amount of stress trying to provide services to their clients and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as they give so much of their time and energy to their critical work, it is equally as important that they have the tools … [Read more...]

This workshop will present a description of sexual abuse, physical abuse, bullying and internet abuse in the United States and information about their rates, the main types and dynamics, and how to prevent and intervene in cases of child abuse, bullying and internet abuse. … [Read more...]

The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the American Psychological Association (APA) have each created Practice Guidelines for psychologists and other mental-health evaluators in child protection matters. Their guidelines promote a higher level of professional practice … [Read more...]

The significant short-term and long-term impact of trauma on children and adolescents is well documented and it is therefore critical that youth affected by trauma receive effective treatment.  Fortunately, the number of evidence-based trauma interventions for children and adolescents has been … [Read more...]

Medical evaluations for possible child abuse can yield important information about whether it is child abuse, whether it is not, mechanisms of injury, and possible timeframes.  Skin injuries, sentinel injuries, head and internal injuries will be discussed and explained. Sexual abuse evaluations … [Read more...]

This presentation will cover the history, present context, and future of child abuse and neglect primary prevention. This workshop will examine the causes and consequences associated with child abuse and neglect in order to help prevent its occurrence. Current approaches and strategies for child … [Read more...]

This workshop will outline the history of child protection in American child welfare with a specific focus on legislation that governed the consideration of race and ethnicity in placement, adoption services, and permanency including the history of tribal child welfare. The goal will be to … [Read more...]

Trauma disproportionately affects underrepresented and marginalized populations. For many, experiences of trauma are compounded by historical trauma, discrimination, and systemic disadvantage. During this course we will discuss the interplay of race and trauma and its pernicious effects on children … [Read more...]