Registration Fee: $70 Buffet Breakfast Included Registration: 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM … [Read more...]

The Joey Center at The Valley Hospital Kireker Center for Child Development Presents: A workshop for Parents and Professionals. This is a FREE conference, but registration is required. Attendance is limited. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to you following registration. A 21st Century IEP … [Read more...]

Join more than 700 child welfare professionals at the only international conference on family focused treatment services. The primary objective of the Conference is to equip professionals with the skills and knowledge they need to deliver high quality family focused treatment services and … [Read more...]

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...]