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APRI Highlights - Summer 2004
Model Undergraduate Curriculum Nears Completion
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Victor Vieth
Director
National Child Protection Training Center
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One of the primary goals of the National Child Protection Training Center is to assist in the development of a model undergraduate curriculum for the child protection professionals of tomorrow. Our hope is to design and implement this curriculum at a major university and then to disseminate the curriculum to every interested public and private university in the United States.
| The development of model undergraduate and graduate curricula is part of our ultimate goal of ending child abuse over the course of a century. |
Winona State University has appointed six professors to undertake this task. APRI Senior Attorney Tom Harbinson assists in the development of the curriculum.
The goal of the committee is to complete the curriculum by July 31, 2004, and to begin teaching courses the following year. Once the curriculum is in place, APRI will assist other interested universities in developing similar models.
In the years ahead, we hope to develop and implement model curricula for law schools and other graduate programs for students who will work in the field of child protection.
The development of model undergraduate and graduate curricula is part of our ultimate goal of ending child abuse over the course of a century. This goal—and the plan to get us there—is contained in a paper to be published by the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma. For a copy of this plan or further information about the groundbreaking work of the National Child Protection Training Center, please contact us at 507-457-2890 or e-mail us at ncptc@ndaa-apri.org.
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