Join us in San Diego in January 2024!

APSAC Pre-Conference Institutes to The 39th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment For additional event details and registration click here. Translating Child Sexual Abuse Research to Practice: Everything You Need to Know Member Registration: $225 Non-Member Registration: $300 Pre-Conference Institutes CEs: $30 Full Conference CEs: $100 Join us in San Diego […]
Free Webinar! The Legal System Response to Child Maltreatment

Free Registration Date: August 30, 2023 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT Description: Legal actions are perhaps the most powerful responses to child maltreatment. Criminal and child protection investigation and forensic interviewing can provide the evidence needed to support a child victim’s disclosure. Prosecution of child maltreatment can hold perpetrators accountable. Juvenile and […]
New Webinar! Child Interviewing – Where Research Meets Practice

Register This is the event registration for Part 1, 2, & 3 Member Registration: $150 Non-member Registration: $175 Event dates: September 27, October 25 & November 29 *Register for individual sessions below PART 1 What is the Name of your Cat – Exploring the Free Narrative (September 27) Description: The free narrative step is a […]
Child Safety & Gun Violence Facts

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in America, now surpassing car accidents. Learn more about child safety and guns and how we can collectively ignite change in the new year in our communities through APSAC’s new infographics. https://www.kron4.com/news/national/utah-father-who-allegedly-killed-family-was-investigated-for-child-abuse-police/
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 career stages. Presented by: Vincent Palusci, MD and other members of Child Maltreatment’s editorial team. Register Here
New! APSAC Alert Prosecutor’s Edition on Recent Case Law: Defendant in Child Sex Trafficking Case

Read The Alert Here 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 improve the effectiveness of the investigation and prosecutor of child abase. TiPP will deliver training, provide technical assistance, and create publications for prosecutors […]
Join APSAC in Supporting the National Campaign to End For-Profit Foster Care

Learn more and sign the petition at FixFosterCare.org Sign the Pledge You are invited to a nationwide screening of the award-winning film, Foster Boy, executive produced by Shaquille O’Neal and written/produced by Jay Paul Deratany, which offers a compelling story of how the for-profit foster care system failed one child. Screening window: May 7 – […]
Read the New! Child Maltreatment 25(3)

The new issue of Child Maltreatment 25(3) is here! Inside you’ll find: Parenting Interventions for Mothers with Problematic Substance Use: Systemic Review of Research and Community Practice Motivational Interviewing in Child Welfare Services: A Systemic Review Alcohol Use and Harm to Children by Parents and Other Adults Estimating the Heritability of Experiencing Child Maltreatment in […]
FREE ACCESS TO APSAC ADVISOR WITH “CONTESTED ISSUES: PARENTAL ALIENATION” ARTICLES

Read The Advisor Here In addition to making this special issue of the APSAC Advisor open access, APSAC is providing links to two recent journal issues focused on “Parental Alienation” (PA) (Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law and Family Court Review). These journals present additional information relevant the ongoing controversy surrounding PA theory. Last […]
Join APSAC May 7 for a Zoom Chat: Online Safety for Children During the COVID-19 Crisis

Join APSAC for a Zoom Chat this Thursday, May 7 at 1 pm eastern titled, “Online Safety for Children During the COVID-19 Crisis” with Susan Kennedy, EdM from The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Did you know that the Cyber Tipline operated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (#NCMEC) has […]