South Holland resident to help lead statewide child...
A passion for helping children has kept South Holland resident Verleaner Lane working on their behalf for more than 30 years in various organizations that help tackle abuse, neglect and death.
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New Law Creates 988 Hotline For Mental Health Emergencies
President Trump has signed into law a bipartisan bill to create a three-digit number for mental health emergencies. The Federal Communications Commission had already picked 988 as the number for this hotline and aims to have it up and running by...
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First Statewide Simulation Training Project in the Country
"For us as Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) and MDTs, this program matters because, prior to the pandemic, the team that had created the original simulation training had been on track to expand the training to multidisciplinary teams..."
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October 7, 2020
This 3-day advanced training is taught by national trainers Julie Kenniston and Ale Levi. Statewide, Illinois participants are learning to provide a victim sensitive interview by understanding factors contributing to child sex trafficking, learning the impact child sex trafficking has on development, and understanding the effects of trauma.
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October 9, 2020
30 participants from 18 different Children's Advocacy Centers 5 days learning how to conduct a victim sensitive interview, in a child friendly, fact finding manner.
The participants must pass and complete a mock interview, in addition to passing a written exam.
This digital training was conducted in partnership with Zero Abuse Project, and our sincerest thank you is extended to them for making this important training possible in the digital world
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October 22, 2020
Andy Zimney , from Employee Strategies MN, spoke to staff from CACI and the Illinois CACs regarding "Best Practices for Remote Team Management".
Through the exploration of the 5 Key Predictors of High Performing Teams from Google’s Project Aristotle, Andy shared how to apply the best practices to our remote teams!
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CACI partnered with Zero Abuse Project to host our first ever ChildFirst Illinois online class October 5-9, 2020. Zero Abuse national presenters Rita Farrell, Robert Peters, and Rachel Johnson taught this statewide class how to conduct a forensic interview in a non-leading, fact finding, forensically sound manner. We look forward to seeing all 30 of these participants in on-going forensic interview trainings in the future. Please contact your CAC director or myself to find out when your region’s next digital peer review is scheduled for.
October 6-9, 2020 CACI collaborated with the National Criminal Justice Training Center to provide Child Sex Trafficking Forensic Interviewing Advanced Training. This digital training was presented by national trainers Julie Kenniston and Ale Levi (pictured below). This course taught participants to develop techniques to conduct a developmentally appropriate interview with victims of sex trafficking, understanding of child sex trafficking victimization, the impact trauma has on development, and to gather information on child pornography and technology.
This month’s series featured:
- Peer Support for Mental Health Professionals Using Telehealth with Paula Condol and Nicola Herting (pictured below)
- Best Practices for Remote Team Management with Andy Zimney (picture above)
- Infection Prevention Discussion with Joseph Kurland (pictured below)
- Multi Leveled Shared Leadership with Chris Newlin (pictured below)
Contact your local CAC director for future meeting times, dates, and call-in information. These 4 opportunities a month will run until the end of December 2020.
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According to the National Children’s Alliance Standards, Mental Health Standard I, “Clinicians providing mental health treatments to CAC clients must participate in ongoing clinical supervision/consultation.” CACI is proud to provide ongoing group supervision/consultation by a senior Illinois clinician to all mental health professionals seeing children referred from Illinois CACs. These supervision/consultation groups are planned for 2 times a month. CACI hosted these on Oct. 19 and Oct. 20, and next month’s is planned for Nov. 16 and Nov. 17. These groups are collaborative, voluntary, and provide a space for peer support and feedback to one another.
-Cara
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Tue, Nov 17, 2020 9:00 AM CST
2020 Virtual Annual Advocate Training
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Fri, Nov 20, 2020 9:00 AM CST
Advanced Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training
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Wed, Nov 18, 2020 9:00 AM CST
Advanced Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training
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Mon, Nov 23, 2020 9:00 AM CST
Advanced Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training
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SAVE THE DATE!! Coming soon is the opening of the registration for the MDT Coordinator Virtual Training, as well as speaker and session information. The training is December 3rd and 4th.
The Expert Series trainings continues in November. The links are below:
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We are starting VOCA site visits soon. Some will be in person, but most will be virtual until Spring.
You will get a letter 30 days prior to your site visit, please let me know if there's any issue once you receive it.
Thank you!
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Thanks to your input several changes have been made to the Collaborate DCFS report. One addition will be required fields added to aid in entering information. For example letting the user know if DCFS or LE should be tracked.
One on one meetings with CACs continue to clarify and questions.
Again, as always, I appreciate everyone's input. It will only make the system better.
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There are still a few emails being sent to my old email address at Murphy & Associates. Please remember to use my CACI email, kathy@cacionline.org. While the old email is still active, it is not checked daily, and anything related to CACI has to be forwarded to me. This could lead to delays in response to questions or information being missed.
Just a reminder that your monthly VOCA fiscal reports are due by the 10th following the month end. Expenses should be entered into AmpliFund, and a signed pdf copy of your PFR along with PFR Workbook in Excel format should be uploaded also. There should be a subfolder for Fiscal Reports under your Public folder to upload the monthly reports, if not please reach out to me. I appreciate everyone’s efforts and patience in working with AmpliFund.
I am looking forward to starting site visits again in November, even if they are only virtual. I will not be doing any in person visits through January at least. If you are scheduled for an in-person visit from Michael this fall, I will be doing a desk review of your fiscal information. I will contact you with details regarding your desk review.
As always, please reach out to me with fiscal questions on your grant or help with AmpliFund.
-Kathy
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Char Rivette, MSW, LCSW, Executive Director of the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center is your new CAC representative. She is looking forward to representing CACs: “In my past 12 years as a CAC executive director, I have watched NCA grow its impact and influence. I am excited and honored to join the board and do my part to help the organization, and in turn all of its members. Thank you, NCA members, for your confidence in me!”
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Like many other things this year our fundraiser had to be cancelled due to COVID-19. We really missed seeing all of you who so generously support our center and the work we do!
We have an incredibly generous donation of 3 KAYAKS we are auctioning off Just in time to make a fantastic Christmas gift! Go to our Facebook page event to see pictures of the kayaks and the minimum bid. Comment your bid and then follow along with the comments to make sure you win!
Happy Bidding!!
*** Photos and minimum bid will be added in the next couple days!
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