Overcoming Barriers to Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse PM

Series Overview and Purpose

The Blank Children's STAR Center seeks to improve outcomes for child victims of abuse by providing educational opportunities for members of our professional community at no cost to attendees. The purpose of the Workshop Series is to impact the systemic coordination of services for children and families through increased professional knowledge and skills surrounding developmentally appropriate, child-focused interventions.

Intended Audience

The Workshop Series is intended for professionals involved in the child protection field including: Department of Human Services professionals, law enforcement, attorneys, victim advocates, medical and mental health providers, family service professionals, nurses, school-based professionals, and foster parents.

Morning session 8:30 AM-12:00 PM; Afternoon session 1:00 PM-4:30 PM (repeat of morning)

Session Description: Overcoming Barriers to Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse

This training provides an opportunity for groups to come together to discuss the issue of child sexual abuse and its prevention with the overarching goal of keeping kids safe and abuse free. As part of this training, groups acknowledge and discuss the barriers to recognizing and responding to abusive situations and then work together to overcome these. Activities include a variety of different ways in which adults can respond and reassert boundaries in everyday situations. 

Objectives:  

·      Participants will distinguish healthy behaviors from boundary violations and pre offending behaviors. 

·      Participants will practice directly addressing concerning behaviors. 

CEUs (some CEUs are still pending):

This program is approved for 3.0 Special Populations CEU hours by the Iowa Board of Certification.

This program is approved for 3.0 CLE hours by the Iowa Supreme Court Commission.

This program is approved for 3.0 hours of group foster parent training by DHHS.