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September News and Updates
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Call for Abstracts Open for the 26th Colloquium!
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APSAC is excited to announce the call for abstracts for our 26th Colloquium to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2019. APSAC's 26th Colloquium will bring high-quality learning opportunities to child maltreatment researchers and practitioners across experience levels and professions. Sessions should be designated as beginning, intermediate, or advanced level content.
Priority will be given to presentations including an emphasis on integrating the principles of trauma informed interventions for all fields working with child maltreatment. Abstracts should describe presentations designed for professionals in mental health, social work, medicine and nursing, law, education, law enforcement, prevention, research, advocacy, child protective services, and allied fields. Sessions should be designated as beginning, intermediate, or advanced level content.
We are pleased and proud that APSAC Colloquia continue to be well-attended and highly regarded; we welcome your participation! Deadline to submit is November 1.
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Join APSAC in San Diego this January for our Advanced Training Institutes
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Hot Topics in Promoting Resilience
The presence of so-called protective factors, in the lives of children can buffer some of the negative effects of maltreatment, and resilience is considered one of the most important of the protective factors. Defined as a "combination of supportive relationships, adaptive skill-building, and positive experiences is the foundation of resilience"; individuals, families, organizations and communities can support the development of resilience in children. This pre-conference institute from APSAC will provide in-depth look at three domains where adaptive skill building in parents can promote supportive relationships and positive experiences, fostering resilience in children: 1) family-based human sexuality education as a tool to promote sexual health and safety; 2) shifting cultural norms to reduce the use of the most prevalent risk factor for child physical abuse, corporal punishment; and 3) understanding and identifying psychological maltreatment. Each topic will include a theoretical background, and offer programs and resources to implement in your practice or community.
Advanced Forensic Interviewing Techniques: Interviewing Victims of Commercial Sexual Explotiation and Using Evidence in Forensic Interviews
The first part of this presentation will provide content that forensic interviewers should incorporate in interviews of minors suspected as trafficking and/or internet crimes victims. The focus will be on non-caregiver cases. Commercial sexual exploitation interviews will be compared and contrasted to intrafamilial cases. Strategies to obtain case specific details will be discussed. The second part will focus on advanced issues in presenting evidence in forensic interviews.
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Want to bring high quality professional education to your state? The APSAC training team offers customized training to fit your community's needs!
Contact Jim Campbell, Training Coordinator for more information. CEUs available!
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Members - Check Out Our New Online Membership Software!
Members should have recently received an email from APSAC regarding our new online membership software.
The new software will offer more robust opportunities to get involved with APSAC and connect with other members while simplifying business transactions like event registration and renewing your membership. The new software allows members to:
- Update your member profile
- Register for events, such as our Colloquium, Forensic Interview Clinics, and Advanced Training Institutes
- Access APSAC publications, including a searchable library of nearly 30 years of the APSAC Advisor
- Sign-up for projects and committees and participate in online discussions
- Access the member directory
- And more!
If you are a member and have not received an email with your login credentials, please email [email protected].
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Reminder: Add Your Institution to the Child Maltreatment Academic Program Database
This tool allows prospective students to search for academic programs from multiple disciplines related to child maltreatment. The database currently contains over 75 programs and allows prospective students to filter and search for programs relevant to their interests.
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APSAC Leadership Speaks Out on Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
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Training Opportunity: Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - October 2-4, 2018 - Pittsburgh, PA
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his training, presented by APSAC member Dr.
Barbara Baumann, is conducted over 2.5 days of intensive instruction and roleplay. To enhance skill acquisition and use, monthly consultation is on clinical implementation is provided by the AF-CBT trainer. During the consultation period, our trainer will provide detailed feedback on submitted session audio and will also be available for Q&A by e-mail. A half-day advanced training session is held approximately 6 months after the initial training session. You will also get access to the trainee section of the AF-CBT website, where you can take advantage of useful features such as assessment scoring applications, extra handouts, and other helpful tools.
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Sandra Alexander Receives March Chaffin Memorial Award from Prevent Child Abuse Georgia
Former APSAC president Sandra Alexander received the Mark Chaffin Memorial Award from Prevent Child Abuse Georgia for her decades of outstanding contributions in the field of child abuse prevention. She started her career in child protective services and found a passion that has led to a long, influential career as a recognized state and national leader, strategic thinker, and innovator in child abuse prevention. Sandra worked for more than 20 years as a non-profit leader before moving to the CDC, where she was a Subject Matter Expert for nine years and where she continues to work as a child maltreatment contract consultant. She was part of the team that developed the CDC's Essentials for Childhood framework and funding initiative and the CDC Technical Package for Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect.
Sandra Alexander (right) and Deborah Choseword, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia Advisory Board.
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With the Help of the Iowa Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (IAPSAC), Marion Public Library becomes first No Hit Zone in Linn County, IA
IAPSAC is thrilled to announce that Marion Public Library in Marion, IA has started the first No Hit Zone in Linn County! They hope this initiative can spread across Iowa helping to strengthen families and communities!
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Training Opportunity from CAPSAC: Munchausen by Proxy Child Abuse, or is it? Identification and Intervention - October 18, 2018 - Los Angeles
This all-day training will present national practice guidelines on Munchausen by Proxy or Medical Child Abuse due to Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another.
Designed for professionals in child protection, healthcare, law enforcement, family court, education, mental health, prosecution and defense to bring confusing or difficult cases to share with colleagues and review with experts. Topics include: Definitions and Terminology, Warning Signs, Identification in Healthcare, Schools and Other Settings, Reporting Suspected Abuse, Obtaining Evidence, Appropriate Documentation, Determining Risk and Harm, Ruling out Abuse, Case Management and Treatment, Supervised Visitation, If, and When to Reunify, Support for the family, Where to go with Vexing Cases
This training is presented by members of the APSAC (American Professional Society on the Abuse Of Children) Taskforce on Munchausen by Proxy: Abuse by Pediatric Condition Falsification, Caregiver-Fabricated Illness in a Child, or Medical Child Abuse Due to Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another published in 2017.
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News from The New York Foundling
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Announcing the 2018 Professional Conference -- Advocacy and Resilience: Pathways to Child Well-Being --
October 5, 2018
The New York Foundling's Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection and New York University's Silver School of Social Work are proud to present their 2018 professional conference, with a keynote from Dr. James Garbino. Conference objectives include:
- Learn about how you can help youth build resiliency and thrive in violent and stressful environments.
- Learn about the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how to treat and prevent toxic stress.
- Understand the role of critical community resources that mitigate risk among urban minority youth.
- Learn about the barriers to disclose that child victims of sexual abuse face and practical insights on how to respond if a child discloses.
- Learn strategies for engaging students in care around their education and the interaction between education and overall child well-being.
- Learn how to enhance youth's self-confidence and self-esteem through writing and telling their stories.
- Learn how to help immigrant clients understand their rights and options in New York City.
- Learn how to strike the balance between Individuals' with Developmental Disabilities habilitation and personal liberties.
- Understand the different types of advocacy (personal, clients, institutions) and the tools used to advocate.
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Resources to Inform Your Work
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From the Committee for Children
From Child Welfare Information Gateway
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A newly revised field manual, Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence, is now available. The manual reflects recent practice innovations, the latest research and data, and a greater emphasis on family preservation and in-home services. The comprehensive user manual informs child protective services (CPS) workers, supervisors, and related professionals on multiple issues related to the co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic violence.
From the American Society of Anesthesiologists - Help stem the tide of the opioid epidemic
This September, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is observing Pain Awareness Month in September to educate and empower people living with chronic conditions that cause pain. The ASA created the following resources to provide people dealing with pain access with high-quality information on safe and effective pain management. These resources may be useful to professionals working with families or in communities affected by the opioid crisis.
From EmbraceRace
- Managing Racial Stress: Guidance for Parents - A conversation with leaders of the American Psychological Associations's RESilience Initiative. Tuesday, September 25 at 8:30 eastern. Register here.
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