Model college curriculum
The National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC) assisted Winona State University (WSU) in designing a model university curriculum that will better prepare the child protection professionals of tomorrow. The curriculum is entitled Child Advocacy Studies, or CAST, and consists of three interdisciplinary courses. The curriculum is currently being expanded into a minor. Beginning in 2008, NCPTC and WSU will assist other public and private universities in adopting this model. Our goal is to have the curriculum in place in 100 universities by 2013 and 500 universities by 2018. To learn more about the curriculum, and to receive updates on the development of CAST, click on:
http://www.winona.edu/childadvocacystudies/index.html
National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse (NCPCA)
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| The National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse is a program of the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI) and responds to an increasing volume of reported child abuse. The National Center provides training, technical assistance and publications to prosecutors, investigators and allied criminal justice professionals on all aspects of criminal child abuse and exploitation. |
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Trauma and Dissociation in Children - A Video Series for Child Protection Professionals in 3 parts
In this new video series, presented by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, leaders in the trauma field come together with experts on interviewing children and prosecuting abuse cases to give child protection professionals a grounding in the psychological impacts of abuse, and provide them with better tools for working with traumatized children.
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Ongoing Training of Child Protection Attorneys in the Field
The National Child Protection Training Center focuses on technical assistance, training and publications for professionals employed in the field with its primary focus on the civil side of child protection, dealing with issues such as dependency and neglect petitions and termination of parental rights.
National Conferences Several times a year, hands-on conferences will be offered through the Center. These conferences will include:
- When Child Abuse Hits Home: Investigating, Proving and Assessing Reunification in Civil Child Protection Cases
- Finding Words: Interviewing Children and Preparing for Court
- ChildProtect: Trial Advocacy for Civil Child Protection Attorneys
- GO TO TRAININGS/CONFERENCES
State and Local Conferences NCPTC attorneys will be available to train at conferences throughout the United States. These trainings are tailored to the needs of the various communities. The NCPTC attorneys also benefit in that they gain a hands-on understanding of the issues facing front line child protection professionals in all regions of the country. This information will, in turn, be used to improve the national course offerings of NCPTC.
Publications NCPTC attorneys publish a free monthly newsletter updating the nation's child protection professionals about emerging issues. The newsletter contains practical tips on issues pertinent to child protection. They also publish Half a Nation by 2010, the newsletter of the State & National Finding Words Courses.
NCPTC attorneys also write and publish law review articles and other scholarly works designed to improve the child protection system.
Technical Assistance NCPTC staff attorneys develop case law and statute summaries as well as topic files on a wide variety of issues pertinent to the child protection field. A data bank of transcripts of experts commonly called in this field is also maintained. Child protection professionals can contact the Center to receive this information and to request specific guidance involving trial strategies, legal or other research, or sample motions or other documents that may assist in a child protection proceeding.
Forensic Interview Training In addition to providing a home for our national Finding Words course, and providing additional personnel to work on our Half a Nation initiative, we publish a forensic interviewing newsletter with plans to publish a peer-reviewed forensic interviewing journal and other resources that will help us grow the knowledge and skills of forensic interviewers.
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