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Integrating Race, Power, Privilege & Perspective

12/9/2022 12pm-1pm ET Reading Club Free Registration Article: Merritt, D.H. (2021). How Do Families Experience and Interact with CPS? In K. Slack and L. Berger, Toward a Better Approach to ...

Give & Play #APSAC[W]ordle

Give to APSAC! Give & Play #APSAC[W]ordle Give and play this Giving Season and join the fun #APSAC[W]ordle competition. In honor of APSAC’s 35th Anniversary, give your $35, $135, $350, ...

12/9/2022 12pm-1pm ET Reading Club

2022 Reading Club: Integrating Race, Power, Privilege & Perspective into Child Protective Services Free Registration Article: https://host8.viethwebhosting.com/~apsa/docs/ANNALS_PAPER.pdf Merritt, D.H. (2021). How Do Families Experience and Interact with CPS? In K. ...

New! APSAC Advisor 34(2): 35th Anniversary Special Issue: Presidents and Pioneers

APSAC is announcing the latest issue of the APSAC Advisor from editors Lisa Schelbe, Carlo Panlilio, and Amanda M. Ferrara. This issue, entitled “Presidents and Pioneers,” is a celebration of ...

38th Annual San Diego Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment

APSAC Pre-Conference Institutes to The 38th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment January 22, 2023 | San Diego, CA 8 am – 4:30 pm Member Registration: ...

Do You Need Credits? APSAC & New York Foundling Online Course

Register Here The Online Course now offers 10 Psychology credits and 7.75 Social Work Credits Pricing Members $50 Full Course $10 Per Module $5 Per CE Student $25 Member ...

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT – EDITOR: APSAC ADVISOR AND ALERT

The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) seeks an Editor for the APSAC Advisor and the APSAC Alert. The Advisor is a quarterly news journal for professionals ...

10/28/2022 1pm-2pm ET Reading Club: Vulnerability, Shame & Resilience

2022 Reading Club: Vulnerability, Shame & Resilience Free Registration Book: You are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience Edited by: Tarana Burke and Brene Brown Presenters: ...

Intrafamilial Child Torture: Victim Impact and Professional Intervention

NEW DATE! October 21, 2022 1pm-3pm EDT This training will discuss the impact of Intrafamilial Child Torture (ICT) on child survivors, and the comprehensive interventions needed from multiple disciplines, including ...

Webinar Series An Overview of The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI)

Webinar Series An Overview of The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI): A Brief, Evidence-Based Early Intervention for Traumatized Children and Families with Carrie Epstein Register Now This workshop ...

11/9/2022 12pm-1pm ET Reading Club

2022 Reading Club: Race & Racism: How are Children of Color Doing in Our Child Welfare Systems? Free Registration Presenters: Darrell Armstrong, MDiv, EdS-MFT, DDiv; Stacie LeBlanc JD, MEd Moderator: ...

Registration Now Open for APSAC’s Virtual Forensic Interview Clinic

Join APSAC for a Four-day Virtual Forensic Interview Clinic, September 26, 30 & October 3, 7. APSAC’s long-standing forensic interview clinic is a highly interactive experience, offering role plays with ...

New APSAC Advisor 34 Keep Soaring Through 2022

New! APSAC Advisor 34(1): Keep Soaring Throughout 2022

APSAC is announcing the latest issue of the APSAC Advisor from Editor-in-Chief Lisa Schelbe, PhD, MSW and Associate Editor Carlo Panlilio, PhD. This issue, entitled “Keep Soaring,” provides timely reflections ...

FREE Zoom Chat Premiering a New Video Created to Raise Awareness

New APSAC & New York Foundling Webinar on Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC)

Webinar Series Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up: Intervening to Enhance Responsiveness Among Parents of Infants and Young Children with Dr. Mary Dozier March 22, 2022, 2 – 3 PM ET Register ...

New! APSAC Alert Prosecutor’s Edition on Recent Developments in the Prosecution of AHT

Read Now! APSAC and Zero Abuse Project were awarded funds by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs to create the Trauma-informed Prosecutor Project (TiPP), which works to ...

New APSAC & New York Foundling Webinar on Children with Problematic Sexual Behavior

Webinar Series Children with Problematic Sexual Behavior: Who are they and how can we help? Information on Problematic Sexual Behavior: Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Dr. Jane F. Silovsky May 25, ...

NEW & FREE Zoom Chat with Ms. Joyce Thomas In Celebration of Black History Month

Presented by: Ms. Joyce N. Thomas RN, MPH, PNP, FAAN February 15, 2022 at 2 pm ET Register Now History matters. It has been said, “Those who do not know ...

Zoom Chat: How to Write, Review and Edit for Child Maltreatment

This free zoom chat will provide information about APSAC’s journal Child Maltreatment and editors will discuss how to successfully participate in CM’s activities as a practitioner and scientist at all ...

Announcing New 8-Week Certificate Program: Forensic Interviewing for Children with Disabilities

Learn More Register Forensic Interviewing with Children with Disabilities is an eight-part webinar series designed to assist interviewers in advancing their skills of interviewing children with disabilities in the most ...

New APSAC & New York Foundling Webinar on AF-CBT

Addressing Family Conflict and Coercion: An Overview of Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT) with David J. Kolko, PhD February 8, 2022, 2 – 3 PM ET Register ...

APSAC is excited to announce the 29th Colloquium will be held in New Orleans, LA, June 6 -10, 2022

Colloquium Theme: Celebrating Resilience Pre-conference institutes: June 6 (Full Day) – 7 (Morning) Four days and multiple tracks featuring APSAC’s distinguished mix of research and practice: June 7 (1:00 central) ...

New! APSAC Alert Prosecutor’s Edition on Using Closed Circuit Television for Children’s Testimony

Read Now! APSAC and Zero Abuse Project were awarded funds by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs to create the Trauma-informed Prosecutor Project (TiPP), which works to ...

Register NOW for the 29th APSAC Colloquium in New Orleans

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Child Maltreatment: Legal Responses to Child Maltreatment

Guest Editors: Theodore P. Cross, Frank E. Vandervort, & Stephanie Block To address the need for empirical data regarding the legal system’s responses to child abuse and neglect, Child Maltreatment ...

FREE Training for APSAC Members from the New York Foundling | December 13, 2021 in Brooklyn, NY

The New York Foundling’s Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection Proudly Presents: Doing What Works: Effective Mental Health Services in Child Welfare and for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Monday, ...

APSAC Advisor 322Special Issue on COVID 19 Now open access

APSAC Advisor 33(2) Special Issue on COVID-19 – Now open access!

Read it here! As a service to the field, the APSAC Board of Directors has voted to make the most recent special issue of the APSAC Advisor open-access. We hope ...

Oral Argument Preview: Smathers v. Glass | Read the APSAC Amicus Brief

Oral Argument Preview: Is a Mistaken Belief that a Child is not Living with an Accused Abusive Parent Sufficient to Preserve Child Protection Caseworker Immunity? Tammy Smathers, individually and on ...

Announcing New Zoom Chat: Writing for the APSAC Advisor 101

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 3:30 – 4:30 pm ET FREE Register Now! Do you have insights you would like to share about child maltreatment prevention? Are you part of an ...

Announcing APSAC’s 2022 Advanced Training Institutes in San Diego

January 23, 2022 Learn More Register Now APSAC is announcing two Advanced Training Pre-Conference Institutes in San Diego. Intrafamilial Child Torture: An Emerging Category of Child Maltreatment Intrafamilial Child Torture ...