How Mary Lost Her Lamb: Rethinking Child Sexual Abuse Prevention in Early Childhood
This workshop explores the overlooked and unspoken realities of child sexual abuse in early childhood. This includes child-on-child sexual abuse, grooming in early childhood, misconceptions about risk and innocence, and the challenges of identifying sexual abuse in young children. Participants will examine their own biases in sexual abuse, sexuality education, and sexual abuse prevention. This […]
Trauma-Informed MDT Practice: From Outcry to Conclusion
Trauma-informed practice is not limited to the first response or the forensic interview. It includes how the MDT communicates, coordinates, prepares families, shares information, and follows through across the life of a case. This workshop helps teams look at trauma-informed practice as a system behavior, not just an individual skill.
Eating Disorders Beyond Food
Trauma, Autism, and What Behaviors May Be Communicating Eating disorders are often reduced to food and weight, but the behaviors themselves can communicate much deeper struggles related to trauma, control, sensory needs, dissociation, and survival. For many individuals, especially those with histories of abuse or neurodivergence, eating disorder behaviors may serve important protective functions. This […]
More than Words: The Emotional Maltreatment of Children
This presentation will discuss the specific threats of physical, psychological, and emotional harm for children living in a home where partner abuse/domestic violence occurs. Common misconceptions will be addressed, including the idea that a child can be too young to be affected by abuse in the home, physically observable signs of injury are an appropriate […]
Labor Trafficking 102
An intermediate-level training that looks more closely at how exploitation develops and why workers may face challenges when seeking support.
Microaggressions and Implicit Bias
Even the most committed professionals carry implicit biases—automatic assumptions shaped by culture and experience. When unexamined, these biases can influence how we interpret clients’ stories, assess credibility, and build trust. This interactive workshop explores how biases form, how they operate beneath awareness, and how they show up in advocacy practice. Participants will examine microaggressions—subtle, often […]
Bridging Troubled Waters Training
Family support workers serve as a Bridge for families, helping them get Over Troubled Waters to the other side. Workers have their own personal and professional challenges, and sometimes they get in the way. We can fix that. Understanding how those challenges affect their relationships with the families they serve is essential. Our effectiveness depends […]
Understanding ACES and NEAR Science
Adverse childhood experiences are traumatic events that create toxic stress which affect children’s emotional, social, physical, cognitive and brain development. ACEs are linked to chronic health problems, mental illness, and substance misuse in adulthood. Learn how childhood adversity impacts our lives, the lives of our children, and the health of our communities.
Team Resilience
Resilience in CAC/MDT work is not only an individual wellness issue. Teams either create conditions that protect people or conditions that quietly drain them. This workshop looks at resilience through the lens of connection, clarity, workload realities, strengths, and small team practices that make the work more sustainable.
Youth with Problematic Sexual Behavior: Prosecution and Response
Description: Cases involving youth with problematic sexual behavior are tragically common for prosecutors, forensic interviewers, and other MDT members. However, addressing these cases effectively presents complex challenges and considerations. This workshop, taught by a former prosecutor, offers relevant research and tactics for appropriate intervention and prosecution. Suggested Audience: All CAC and MDT members
