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APSAC Racial Justice Reading Club – November 2024!
Register Now for November’s Racial Justice Reading Club! Book: You Are The Prize: Seeing Yourself Beyond the Imperfections of Your Trauma by Amnoni Laren MyersPresenter: Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD
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Child Interviewing – Where Research Meets Practice (Part 1 & 2 Registration)
Child Interviewing – Where Research Meets Practice (Part 1 & 2 Registration) Member Registration: $100 Non-member Registration: $120 Event dates: October 16 & November 20 Trauma-Informed Practice for Child Forensic ...
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Attend the September 2024 Virtual Forensic Interview Clinic
Clinic Application Dates: September 16, 17, 18 & 26, 27 9 am– 4:30 pm Central time The comprehensive APSAC Clinic offers a unique opportunity to participate in an intensive training experience focused on ...
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Present at the 32nd Colloquium in New Orleans!
Submit Proposal to Present at the 32nd Colloquium in New Orleans! 2025 Colloquium Theme: Inspiring Solutions APSAC’s 32nd Colloquium will bring high-quality learning opportunities to child maltreatment researchers and practitioners ...
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Are Black and Hispanic Children Over-Reported, Over-Substantiated and Over-Placed Compared to White Children?
Register for Are Black and Hispanic Children Over-Reported, Over-Substantiated and Over-Placed Compared to White Children? General Admission (individual session): $30.00APSAC Members and The New York Foundling Staff Admission: Free1 CE ...
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IAPSAC| Detect and Protect: The Dentist’s Role in Identifying and Reporting Orofacial Child Abuse, Neglect, and Endangerment
Register for IAPSAC| Detect and Protect: The Dentist’s Role in Identifying and Reporting Orofacial Child Abuse, Neglect, and Endangerment This webinar is the fourth in the APSAC 2024 State Chapter ...
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APSAC Racial Justice Reading Club – September 2024!
Register Now for the September Racial Justice Reading Club Session! From a Child’s Eyes: Remembering the “child” in “child welfare”. Book: Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot Presenter: Muna Heaven
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APSAC Racial Justice Reading Club – October 2024!
Register Now for October’s Racial Justice Reading Club! Title: Creating a Narrative Medicine session with “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison Description: This session will use the format of a narrative medicine ...
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APSAC Racial Justice Reading Club – December 2024 !
Register Now for December’s Racial Justice Reading Club Session! “I’m just trying to put food on the table”: Supervisory Neglect and Child Protective System’s Expectations of Black Birth MothersPresenter: Darcey H. Merritt, ...
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Atención Informada en Trauma (Trauma Informed Care)
Register Description: Aproximadamente 50% de la población experimentará algún tipo de evento posiblementetraumático (ej.., exposición a violencia en el hogar o comunidad, abuso físico, emocional o sexual, desastrenatural, muerte violenta de ...
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New Addition! The New York Foundling & APSAC Webinar Series on Controversial Topics!
Register Here for The New York Foundling & APSAC Webinar Series on Controversial Topics! Note: If you have already registered for the entire Webinar Series please do not register for ...
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“Just the facts”: Best practices for minimal facts interviewing (Webinar on Controversial Topics)
Register Now for the Controversial Topics Webinar with Thomas D. Lyon, JD, PhD! Title: “Just the facts”: Best practices for minimal facts interviewing presented by Thomas D. Lyon, JD, PhD Description:Investigators and ...
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Zoom Chat: Art as a Language to Deconstruct and Decolonize the Concept of Resilience
Description: This workshop will deconstruct the existing framework of resilience as it relates to Latin American families and showcase artwork as a tool for healing, understanding trauma recovery, and liberation through ...
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Amicus Committee’s Child Advocacy in the Courts: Expanding Our Understanding of Child Maltreatment
Description: In this Zoom chat, members of the APSAC Amicus Committee will explain what they do and invite APSAC members to join in the work. The Amicus Committee is a multi-disciplinary group that ...
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Join APSAC at the 2024 Colloquium in New Orleans for high-quality interdisciplinary learning opportunities!
Register Here Join APSAC in New Orleans June 9-13, 2024! Pre-Conference Institutes: June 9-10 APSAC’s 31st Colloquium: Four days and multiple tracks featuring APSAC’s distinguished mix of research and practice. ...
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CAPSAC | Sexual Abuse Allegations in the Context of Divorce
This webinar is the second in the APSAC 2024 State Chapter Webinar Series Register APSAC Members: Free Non-Member Registration: $30 Webinar Description: The failure of the “system” to protect children ...
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Complexities of child serious injury and death investigations
Register General Admission (individual session): $30.00APSAC Members and The New York Foundling Staff Admission: Free1 CE Credit (Social Work & Psychology) Non-Members: $30.001 CE Credit (Social Work & Psychology) APSAC ...
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🌟 Meet a Colloquium Keynote Speaker: Dr. Danielle Busby
2024 Colloquium Registration This presentation will explore and define trauma-informed suicide prevention, explain how adolescent suicide risk may present differently for youth with a maltreatment history, and name clear strategies ...
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2024 April Prevention Month
Register Here Shielding Childhood: A Four-Week Journey through Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Universal Child Abuse Prevention During Child Abuse Prevention Month April 3rd, 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Week ...
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Join the new 4-part Training: Contemporary Challenges Facing Black Youth
Register Here Series Description: This four-part series examines contemporary challenges among young black males, focusing on disparities and disproportionalities. Title: Harm, Hip-Hop & Healing: Young Black Males’ Musical Medicine Description: ...
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Are Child Welfare Case Outcomes Black and White?
Free Registration Title: Are Child Welfare Case Outcomes Black and White? Responding to Race Disparities Perceived by Permanency Professionals and Caregivers of Black Children Description: When children are removed from ...
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Why and How white child protection advocates must talk to black parents about the harms of corporal punishment?
Register General Admission (individual session): $30.00APSAC Members and The New York Foundling Staff Admission: Free1 CE Credit (Social Work & Psychology) Non-Members: $30.001 CE Credit (Social Work & Psychology) APSAC ...
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Is Cannabis Legalization Really Impacting the Maltreatment of Children? The Highs and The Lows
Register General Admission (individual session): $30.00APSAC Members and The New York Foundling Staff Admission: Free1 CE Credit (Social Work & Psychology) Non-Members: $30.001 CE Credit (Social Work & Psychology) APSAC ...
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4-part Training: Contemporary Challenges Facing Black Youth
Register Title: Changing the narrative for Black youth: Positioning for promise Description: Chronic observations about disparities in health, educational underachievement and employment opportunities for Black youth combined with the impact ...
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The New York Foundling & APSAC Webinar Series on Controversial Topics
Register Here General Admission (all 6 sessions): $90.00 APSAC Members and The New York Foundling Staff Admission: Free 6 CE Credits (Social Work & Psychology) Non-Members: $90.00 6 CE Credits ...
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“Just the facts”: Best practices for minimal facts interviewing
Click here to register for all 6 sessions (Free for APSAC members and The New York Foundling Staff, $90 for non-members) General Admission (all 6 sessions): $90.00 APSAC Members and ...
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Online Sexual Abuse of Children and Youth presented by David Finkelhor, PhD
Click here to register for all 6 sessions (Free for APSAC members and The New York Foundling Staff, $90 for non-members) General Admission (all 6 sessions): $90.00 APSAC Members and ...
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4-part Training: Contemporary Challenges Facing Black Youth
Register Here Title: Resilience & Resistance: Black Youth and Family’s Navigation of Racism-Related Stress Description: Keniston (1978) asserted that Black youth are “the most endangered children in our society.” Indeed, ...
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4-part Training: Contemporary Challenges Facing Black Youth
Register Here Title: Kids & Drugs: An Exploration of Adolescent Substance Use & Related Issues Description: In the United States, drugs generally are a major public health burden as a ...
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