Our professional development workshops, classes, and courses throughout the year provide valuable insights and knowledge for those working with children and families in the social service field.
Upcoming 2025 opportunities include:
Friday, May 2 | 11:00 AM
WEBINAR: What Everyone in Child Welfare Should Understand about Sexuality with Dr. Janet Rosenzweig
With a goal of increasing your sense of preparedness to work with parents and foster parents, this workshop will explore topics around sexual development, anatomy, physiology and sexual health and safety.
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June 23 – 26
CONFERENCE: APSAC 2025 Colloquium
APSAC’s 32nd Colloquium will bring high-quality interdisciplinary learning opportunities to child maltreatment researchers and practitioners across experience levels and professions. Extraordinary plenary speakers will join us and more than 130 sessions will be available! Sessions will be offered at beginning, intermediate, or advanced levels for professionals in mental health, social work, medicine, nursing, law, education, law enforcement, prevention, research, advocacy, child protective services, and allied fields.
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Wednesday, August 13 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM
WEBINAR: Controversal Topics Course – Are Minimal Facts Interviews the Best Practice presented by Detective (ret.) Mike Johnson
The primary mandate of a Child Advocacy Center is to provide its multidisciplinary team with an immediate response to an outcry in a trauma-informed and victim- and family-friendly facility. Many CACs have now created an additional layer that delays the start of an investigation and protective intervention – the Minimal Facts Interview. This presentation seeks to shed light on the dangers of the minimal facts interview and will provide solutions to this practice.
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