Training Overview
Central MN Child Advocacy Center and Stearns Benton Child Protection Team are presenting this training opportunity, featuring key speakers Frank Weber and Sonya Brunner. This training is for social workers, mental health professionals, law enforcement, guardian ad litem, professionals working with children, educators, medical professionals, victim service advocates, and county attorney’s office professionals.
Learning Objective
- Develop an understanding and learn strategies for common and severe forms of mental illness
- Address the impact sustained by professionals who provide assistance to mentally ill clients and examine healthy coping strategies
- Explore ways to increase the efficacy of child abuse investigations through a collaborative approach with law enforcement officers and child protection workers
- Review child abuse case scenarios and identify ways agencies can collectively assist one another during the investigation
- Gain knowledge regarding protective orders available and discuss which may be applicable for specific situations and how to obtain them
- Learn about the impacts of poly-victimization
- Learn from survivors’ lived experience of poly-victimization and how their faith helped them heal
- Learn about brain-related effects and developmental challenges of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Develop an understanding of methods of intervention with children and adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Address normal vs. Problematic sexual behaviors in children
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*Register by Monday, April 14, 2025.