Minnesota Children's Alliance

Justice Clearinghouse Being an Emotionally Intelligent Leader
2025-04-15 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Attendees will be introduced to emotional intelligence, specifically Daniel Goleman’s Mixed Method Model, and how it can influence/impact leadership.
Learning Objective

Define emotional intelligence
List and describe the five key components of the mixed model method of emotional intelligence.
List the benefits of being an emotionally intelligent leader.
List methods to develop emotionally intelligent leaders.
Discuss steps to improve their emotional intelligence.

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Justice Clearinghouse Behavioral Aspects of Human Trafficking
2025-04-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
This webinar series will provide an in-depth overview of human trafficking. Webinar attendees will gain an understanding of how human trafficking occurs and how victims are recruited/conscripted. The roots of human trafficking will be examined along with the current situation. An analysis of laws governing human trafficking will be explored. A comprehensive study of the scope of human trafficking in the United States will be provided along with an examination of indicators of human trafficking. Attendees will gain an understanding of the role law enforcement plays along with other first responders and members of the community at large in preventing, mitigating, responding to, and investigating human trafficking.
In part two of Human Trafficking, we will discuss offender patterns, behaviors, and techniques. Likewise, we will discuss the victimology of human trafficked persons. The role vulnerability plays will be discussed. We will continue to explore the complexities involving this important topic. In each webinar, we will review indicators of human trafficking. This topic will be presented from a multidisciplinary approach. The focus will be on the United States, but we will delve into the global perspective as well.
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First Witness ChildFirst Forensic Interview Training
2025-04-14 - 2025-04-18 | First Witness, 1402 E 2nd Street, Duluth, MN, 55805, United States
Training Overview
The ChildFirst® Forensic Interview Protocol brings the field into the classroom, enhancing the education of front-line child abuse response professionals. This training is designed for investigative teams of law enforcement officers, social workers, prosecutors, child protection attorneys, and forensic interviewers.
Students receive training on the ChildFirst® Forensic Interview Protocol, which includes child development, memory and suggestibility, testifying in court, legal issues, and preparing children for court. This training incorporates lecture and discussion, review of electronically recorded interviews, skill-building exercises, and an interview practicum.
The ChildFirst® Forensic Interview Protocol is an NCA-approved forensic interview protocol for accreditation.
This training will be held in-person at the First Witness Capstan Training Center in Duluth, MN.
Scholarships are available for county, tribes, and other local professionals responsible for child maltreatment investigations and prosecutions in the State of Minnesota. When selecting from our payment options, choose “I am applying for a Minnesota Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHS) Scholarship.” Recipients are responsible for any other costs of attending this training, including travel, lodging, and meals. Scholarships are provided through the Minnesota Department of Human Services using state and federal funds provided through a Children’s Justice Act grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
We will notify you following registration whether or not you will receive a scholarship.
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MACMH | Building Workforce Resilience: Reflective Practice Supervision to Enhance Organizational Health
2025-04-09 09:00 - 11:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Reflective Practice Supervision, delivered in individual and group formats, has been shown to offer a critical buffer for staff of many different roles and professional backgrounds to secondary traumatic stress and other workplace stressors, while increasing staff retention and engagement. Participants will gain concrete tools for Reflective Practice implementation and will help participants offer this powerful support within their organizations.
Reflective Practice has been found to be an effective model of supervision across many fields in health care, law, and mental health and behavioral health. Anyone providing supervision can benefit from this training, and those who have advanced training in clinical supervision will benefit as well.
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Justice Clearinghouse Practical Mindfulness for Criminal Justice Professionals
2025-04-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Criminal justice professionals are busier than ever, and many are feeling overwhelmed. You may have heard of mindfulness and wondered what it offers. Or perhaps you know what mindfulness is, but you are looking to reinvigorate or begin a practice. The good news is mindfulness isn’t another item for your to-do list. Instead, it’s a shift in perception, one that can be enhanced skillfully to reduce stress on and off the job.
In this webinar, Dr. Ed Sherman and Crawford Coates will discuss what mindfulness means and how it might benefit members of criminal justice agencies. They will explore some of mindfulness’s history and the science underpinning it and then explain how simple practices are uniquely suited to criminal justice professions. The practices discussed aim to reduce stress, improve clarity, rekindle a sense of purpose, and inspire you to be the criminal justice professional you were meant to be.
Learning Objectives

Getting back to yourself
Revitalizing your mission
Creating clarity for yourself and your team
Reducing stress
Leading with purpose

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Keeping Faith: Empowering Faith Communities to Recognize and Respond to Child Maltreatment
2025-04-08 - 2025-04-09 | Minnesota West Community & Technical College – Worthington, 1450 College Way, Worthington, MN, 56187, United States
Training Overview
This is a 2-day training sponsored by Southwest Crisis Center, Nobles County Attorney’s Office, Zero Abuse Project, and the Worthington, MN Police Department.
This course empowers faith communities to recognize and respond to cases of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. Included are discussions detailing the impact of child abuse on a victim’s sense of spirituality and offering concrete suggestions for working with medical and mental health professionals to assist a child in coping with maltreatment. The course also discusses ideal child protection policies for a faith-based institution, including handling a situation in which a convicted sex offender seeks to join a congregation. A review of various child abuse case scenarios and a discussion on appropriate and inappropriate responses allows for real-life problem-solving and feedback. Find the agenda of this training here and their event flyer.
Why is this training important for every faith community?

93% of sex offenders describe themselves as being ‘religious’
20% of 2864 church leaders knew of at least one convicted sex offender who was attending or was a member of their church (Christianity Today 2010)
Child Abuse Survivor Quote: “I went online to every faith community in my area trying to find a place in which I felt safe to worship.
None of them gave me any information about their community’s safety policies, so I just gave up trying.”

Intended Audience

Clergy
Chaplains
Youth ministers
Faith leaders
Counselors
Other members of a faith community who may work with children or families impacted by child abuse.

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NCJTC | Presenting Evidence in Child Forensic Interviews
2025-04-08 - 2025-04-09 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Explore how different types of evidence can be used in forensic interviews of children in abuse, witnessing violence and exploitation cases. Learn how to present different types of evidence in the context of a child-centered, trauma-informed, and legally defendable forensic interview approach. Discuss the implications of presenting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Practice techniques and develop skills to present different types of evidence in child forensic interviews.
Learning Objectives

Understand how different types of evidence can be used in forensic interviews of children in abuse, witnessing violence, and exploitation cases.
Present different types of evidence in the context of a child-centered, trauma-informed, and legally defendable forensic interview.

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Register by Tuesday, March 25, 2025.

Tuition/instructional costs, as well as course materials, are provided by the Missing and Exploited Children Training and Technical Assistance Program. For in-person training, attendees are responsible for making and funding their costs of attendance, including but not limited to lodging, travel, meals, incidentals, etc.

Prerequisite

Have completed an NCA approved 5 day basic Forensic Interview course or its equivalent
Be regularly conducting Forensic Interviews in your current role

Justice Clearinhouse | BOLO: Mental Health for First Responders
2025-04-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Mental health is a topic gaining popularity in the first responder world – the “suck it up, buttercup” mentality is being flipped upside down. Understanding mental health concerns for first responders is crucial because of the regular exposure to critical incidents and other stressors that can have profound psychological impacts. Common concerns among first responders include Post-Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI), suicidality, anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders, which can significantly affect their well-being and job performance.
Participants will learn to identify early signs of mental health struggles within first responder populations, explore effective stress management and coping strategies, learn about wellness check-in programs, and become familiar with treatment options.
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IHS | Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth: Challenges, Resources, and Professional Resilience
2025-04-03 12:00 - 15:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
LGBTQ+ youth, like all young people, require environments that nurture their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. They face unique challenges due to stigma, discrimination, and lack of understanding, which can impact their developmental outcomes. LGBTQ+ youth can be at higher risk for suicidal ideation, self-harm, running away, homelessness, abuse, and commercial sexual exploitation . These youth along with their families, benefit from the support of compassionate, informed professionals to provide services, information, and advocacy.
The LGBTQ+ community intersects with many other identities and communities. It is imperative that professionals maintain awareness of the intersectional needs of youth. In addition, professionals supporting the needs of LGBTQ+ youth are having to factor in the rise of political initiatives to reduce or ban support of this population. This leads to ethical dilemmas and the risk of moral injury to the professional. Youth need consistent caring support from adults who are knowledgeable, well-resourced, and resilient. Professional self-care is critical so that adults can continue to provide ethical, responsive care to the diversity of youth in the LGBTQ+ community.
This intermediate-level course is appropriate for social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other human services professionals serving LGBTQ+ youth.
Learning Objectives

Describe the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ+ youth due to stigma, discrimination, and lack of understanding including intersectional identities.
Identify a variety of approaches and interventions that support the developmental needs of LGBTQ+ youth.
Create a list of resources for support, advocacy, and information to benefit LGBTQ+ youth, their families, and their communities.
Discuss the awareness and implementation of professional self-care so that providers can maintain the resilience needed to provide ethical, responsive care to LGBTQ+ youth.

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This training course if free but $10 to receive continuing education credits.

Justice Clearinghouse | Witness Preparation: It's Not Just About the Facts
2025-04-01 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Many people are not happy about being called as a witness, for a variety of reasons. For some people, it is an inconvenience, or they’re weary of constantly changing court dates. For others, testifying will require them to relive something that was upsetting or traumatic. Witness preparation is the attorney’s opportunity to identify the source of apprehension or reluctance about testifying and address it so that both the witness and the attorney are prepared to present the strongest case possible.
In this webinar, we will talk about preparing witnesses to testify in a hearing or trial, both generally and in cases that involve difficult or emotional topics, like domestic violence or animal cruelty, and that require additional sensitivity to the witness’ experience. We will also discuss how to identify potential challenges with a witness and what steps you may need to take to ensure a clear record.
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Justice Clearinghouse | Silly Rabbit, Tech Isn't Just for Kids: Supporting Older Adult Victims of Digital Financial Abuse
2025-04-01 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Older adults are engaging with technology like never before. With this shift to more digital community building, scammers are using technology to target older adults to perpetrate financial crimes such as romance scams, identity theft, and more. Perpetrators of financial fraud can range from the most intimate of people, like partners and family members, to strangers far away.
With the increase in the use of technology, it is essential for service providers to understand how technology is used to perpetrate financial crimes and the emotional and often traumatic toll it can have on older adults.
Learning Outcomes

Recognize the types of financial fraud targeting older adults.
Identify the ways technology is used by perpetrators to facilitate financial crimes.
Explore strategies to support older adult victims of technology abuse and financial fraud.

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First Witness: Understanding Victim Manipulation and the Spiral of Abuse
2025-03-27 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
As professionals, we have heard of the concept of victim manipulation (formerly known as grooming). What is not commonly discussed is the motivations, thoughts, and behaviors of child sex offenders; what is referred to as the spiral of abuse. We will discuss in-depth the process of victim manipulation and uncover some of the common ways in which this is carried out. I will also be walking us through the spiral of abuse to understand the evolution of sexually abusive behavior.
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Justice Clearinghouse | Motivating Today's Workforce: How to Get the Most Out of Everyone
2025-03-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Have you ever looked at the people around you and wondered what you could do to provide an environment where they could be happier, more productive, and more fulfilled at work AND in life?
We are all different – and that’s a good thing. Every human being is motivated differently and what drives us are our values and goals.
We will examine what motivates different generations overall based on how we were all raised, our norms, and our current environment. Then we will discuss actionable items that will allow you to understand your people on an individual basis as well. As co-workers, friends, and supervisors, we can all help each other be more motivated and have more fulfilling careers and lives!
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NCJTC | Internet of Things: Privacy Concerns – What Communities Need to Know
2025-03-20 12:00 - 15:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes ubiquitous in our everyday lives there are privacy and security concerns that citizens should be aware of. This training will provide an overview of IoT and will teach law enforcement officials methods to engage with their communities to provide information about IoT privacy and security. Steps that community members can take to be safer with these devices, and effective teaching strategies regarding prevention will be covered.
Learning Objectives

Explore IoT device capabilities and features, networking environment concerns, firmware and actions to better secure IoT devices
Examine the impact of IoT devices on communities
Identify effective prevention messaging techniques
Illustrate effective techniques for IoT crime prevention

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Register by Friday, February 21, 2025

Justice Clearinghouse | Understanding Law Enforcement Culture: A Deep Dive Into Why We Act the Way We Do & How to Work Collaboratively Together
2025-03-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Law enforcement personnel bring unique personality characteristics to the profession, but they also develop a distinct “police culture” over their careers. From their first day in the academy, officers are trained to keep themselves and the public safe, and to maintain “command presence.” This training significantly influences their interactions with the public. In modern policing, officers are expected to juggle numerous roles, often without adequate training to manage the physical and mental challenges of a shift.
This webinar will not only delve into the unique characteristics of the law enforcement personality but also provide practical strategies to foster collaborative work, resulting in improved interactions and community relations.
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Justice Clearinghouse | Yours, Mine, and Ours: The Effects of Emotions on Communication
2025-03-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Join us for an insightful follow-up to our previous webinar on effective communication and active listening. In “Yours/Mine/Ours: The Effects of Emotions on Communication,” we’ll explore the profound impact emotions have on our ability to communicate effectively. Whether in personal relationships, professional settings, or casual interactions, emotions shape the way we convey and interpret messages.
Building on the skills developed in our last session, we will discuss emotional dynamics and their influence on communication. We will cover various strategies to manage and express emotions constructively, enhancing both our verbal and non-verbal communication skills. Participants will learn how to navigate emotional conversations with greater awareness and empathy, turning potential conflicts into opportunities for connection.
Don’t miss this opportunity to further develop your communication skills and harness the power of emotions to foster healthier, more productive interactions.
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NCAC 41st International Symposium on Child Abuse
2025-03-16 - 2025-03-18 | Von Braun Center, 700 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, 35801, United States
Training Overview
The International Symposium on Child Abuse is a premier conference providing expert training and networking opportunities to professionals in the child maltreatment field. This conference is unique in addressing all aspects of child maltreatment, including but not limited to, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, exposure to violence, poly-victimization, exploitation, intervention, trafficking, and prevention. Child abuse professionals also learn important techniques to manage the impact of vicarious trauma.
The symposium will offer more than 130 workshops. The agenda is designed with specific fields in mind, including:

Administration/Leadership
Child Protective Services
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Ethics
Forensic Interviewing
Human Trafficking/Sexual Exploitation
Intervention
Law Enforcement
Medical
Mental Health/Treatment
Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)
Prevention
Prosecution/Legal
Secondary Traumatic Stress
Victim Advocacy
Youth Serving Organizations
and so many more!

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Optional Pre-Conference | Monday, March 17, 2025: $129
Symposium | Monday, March 17 – Thursday, March 20, 2025: $700
CE Credits/List of Attended Sessions: $75

MAC | Wellness Workgroup: Burnout Assessment and Discussion
2025-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
In this one hour workshop, participants will complete the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL)- Burnout Scale, a short assessment that assesses for compassion fatigue and burnout. MAC staff will then guide a discussion about professional burnout and strategies to address it. Participants will not be asked to share their results, only their thoughts and reactions to the assessment. Participants will gain a better understanding of where they are on the burnout scale, and will learn how to use assessment tools to gauge change and professional growth.
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NCJTC Child Sex Trafficking: From Suspicion to Disclosure
2025-03-12 09:00 - 16:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Learn basic techniques and strategies to enhance the likelihood of obtaining information from possible victims of child sex trafficking. Compare and contrast typical child sexual abuse cases with child sex trafficking (CST) cases and address the different points of entry into the criminal justice and welfare system for CST victims. Understand various disciplines’ roles and responsibilities and how they can contribute to a positive outcome of the CST case. Examine question strategy, interview dynamics, language use, and interview suggestions. Discuss the business model of child sex trafficking as it relates to a variety of crimes, including the use of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This training is suitable for community correction officers, law enforcement, prosecutors, social workers, tribes/tribal workers, and victim service workers.
Learning Objectives

Understand the importance of an interviewer mindset and style, and how different question strategies impact the accuracy of information gathered.
Learn/improve fundamental skills of engagement with potential CST victims to maximize positive outcomes of future contacts with other professionals
Understand the totality of the circumstances through interviews and observations and how these impact the total investigation.
Understand how a continuum of care for the CST victim maximizes positive case outcomes

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Justice Clearinghouse | Considerations for Recruitment & Retention of Victim Services Unit Personnel
2025-03-11 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Securing qualified and suitable candidates for law enforcement-based victim services positions is an essential component of effective agency responses to victims and co-victims of crime. Victim services personnel’s assigned responsibilities often include direct service provision, advocacy on behalf of those served, collaboration with partner agencies and organizations, training development and provision, constitutional and statutory compliance, agency representation, operational oversight of victim services, and funding and budgetary management.
An equally essential component of effective agency responses is the ability to retain qualified and suitable personnel. Competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, a positive work environment, and professional development and growth are elements that contribute to personnel maintaining motivation for high-quality performance of assigned responsibilities.
Learning Objectives

Recruitment strategies
Interview and background processes
Assigned responsibilities
Retention strategies

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MACMH Developmental Repair and the Intersection of Culture, Race, Trauma, and Systems
2025-03-07 12:30 - 15:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
In order to help a young person heal from toxic stress we must hold in mind the core components of Developmental Repair (stress biology, attachment, family culture) while honoring the family and community’s experience of culture, race, and interactions with systems. In 2017, Washburn Center and Northside Achievement Zone began formally training NAZ partners in the model bringing Dr. Anne Gearity’s concepts of joining and making sense to early childhood spaces. Each provider who uses these tools to increase emotional and behavioral regulation brings their own lived experiences to the relationship with young children and their families. When providers and caregivers are grounded in the principals of Developmental Repair and trust each other’s intentions, we can work within and across cultures to serve the various needs of our scholars/clients.
Learning Objectives

Understand how unlearning assumptions about family culture can lead to better connections.
Identify ways adult/provider’s lived experience impacts how they take a child’s perspective.
Learn how the intersection of racialized trauma, development, family, and system impact scholar/client well-being.

About the Presenter
Chantell Johnson, MSW Candidate
Community Wellness Program Manager & Family Academy Facilitator, Northside Achievement Zone
Lauren W. Nietz, MSW, LICSW
Director of the Training Institute and Clinical Development, Washburn Center for Children
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Justice Clearinghouse | The Journeys That Define Us: Considerations for Working with Youth Impacted by Immigration and Refugee Trauma
2025-03-04 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
The impact of trauma on youth has been well established. When one compounds the extraordinary trials and adversities that families experience as refugees during immigration the impact is exponential.
This webinar will discuss the psychological impacts that occur as well as what support these families can benefit from. Resources from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) as well as other evidence-based practices (e.g., Trauma-Focused CBT, which has multiple scientific studies on this population) will be cited. Finally, a specific case example will be used to tie together concepts into the concrete application.
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NCJTC Protecting Children in a Digital Age
2025-03-04 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Technology plays a tremendous role in our children’s lives. Learn about the ways children are interacting online to create better understanding and open up meaningful communication. Increase awareness of opportunities to protect and connect with children while also gathering valuable information to mitigate threats posed by individuals who seek to exploit them.
Upon completion of this training, you will be able to:

Understand the different types of technology used by children and teens, including devices and apps
Recognize the differences between the digital age and the world that adults experienced while growing up
Focus on a proactive approach to digital safety that includes communication, setting guidelines, and digital citizenship training
Understand the most common online issues that children and teens are likely to face such as cyberbullying, “sexting,” and online predators
Address the legal aspects of all of these topics and learn how to address each of these issues with best practices
Understand our role in helping victims navigate trauma after the incident has occurred, and learn what resources are available for you to aid in this process

About Presenter
Dana Miller – Associate, National Criminal Justice Training Center
Dana Miller is an Associate with the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College. Dana holds a master’s degree in criminal justice, and she has worked extensively in education and harm prevention surrounding technology in the state of Wisconsin. Dana is a former Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Commander; in her tenure with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Dana managed the program operations for the ICAC Task Force, including managing Wisconsin CyberTips from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and collaborating with Wisconsin law enforcement regarding investigations, outreach, and training events. Throughout her career, Dana has provided online safety outreach to over 30,000 people. She is creator and co-creator of multiple Wisconsin online safety programs and initiatives that continue to be utilized, and she teaches online safety primary prevention and responding to sextortion classes throughout the nation.
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The registration fee includes 8 hours of training, program materials, and instructional costs.

NCAC Getting the Best Information from a Narrative Child Witness
2025-03-04 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Forensic interviewers often focus much attention on strategies for interviewing reluctant children. Alternatively, there are also skills to be developed and generously applied when interviewing a highly narrative child. The use of invitations, breadth and depth questions, open and specific ‘wh-’ questions and limited use of option posing questions provides a framework for understanding and moving through a child’s narration of remembered event(s).
This training is recommended for forensic interviewers at any level who wish to increase their ability to obtain the most complete and accurate information from a child witness.
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Register by Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

MAC Minnesota Criminal Legal Reform: Pretrial Bail and Detention Best Policies
2025-02-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
The Minnesota Justice Research Center (MNJRC) was tasked by the state legislature with researching and reporting on best practices regarding bail and pretrial detention. Their report is due mid-February and researchers Anna Hall and Anna Simonton will be presenting on their findings. The MNJRC reviewed other states’ policies, met with stakeholders- including victims and advocates, and analyzed policy from around the state. Find out what recommended best practices are in Minnesota and what that means for victims.
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NCJTC Verbal De-Escalation and Conflict Resolution
2025-02-26 | The Brown Hotel, 335 West Broadway, Louiseville, KY, 40202, United States
Training Overview
Avoid potential conflict both professionally and personally by learning to organize your thinking and respond calmly. Consider the approaches you can take to prevent and respond to verbal conflict. This course will explore the communication process, conflict prevention, and help you understand why conflicts occur. Instruction will also cover certain circumstances in which verbal de-escalation techniques may not be appropriate, and provide techniques to resolve such conflicts. Join us to learn how de-escalation techniques and communication skills can potentially defuse tense situations and lead to more successful outcomes. This training does not cover physical intervention techniques.
Learning Objectives

Leverage verbal and nonverbal approaches to improve service outcomes
Consider and apply techniques when facing those who are emotionally charged or suffering from some form of crisis
Demonstrate active listening skills to be best communicate and empathize with those in conflict

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Justice Clearinghouse Adults and Childhood Trauma
2025-02-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Adults who experienced trauma in their childhood live with the physical, emotional and behavioral consequences of that trauma throughout life. In some cases, these adults do not recognize that they were exposed to trauma in their childhood. The consequences of this exposure may have led to unhealthy patterns in the adults’ life that they simply accept as ‘normal’ for them. This webinar will present ways in which children are exposed to trauma, how that trauma manifests or is exhibited in a person’s life in adulthood, and healthy interventions for that adult to be able to mitigate, alter or cope with the consequences of childhood trauma.
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CornerHouse | Multi-Session Forensic Interviews: When and Why They Should Be Considered
2025-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Children and youth have individual needs based on their age and development. The CornerHouse Forensic Interview Protocol is a person-centered, semi-structured, and forensically sound process to gather information from individuals who are identified as victims and/or witnesses of an alleged crime. There are times when it is necessary to adjust a traditional model of a one session forensic interview for the unique needs of the individual, including interviewing the individual over multiple sessions. This is identified as a Planned Multiple Session Interview (or multisession). Understanding when a multisession interview is necessary and how to conduct a multisession interview may be beneficial to maximize the individual’s ability or opportunity to share their experience.
This training will review the literature regarding multiple-session interviews, discuss decision-making for selecting appropriate cases for multiple sessions, and provide guidance on conducting a single forensic interview over multiple sessions.
Objectives

Learners will understand the benefits of multiple-session forensic interviews in meeting the unique needs of individuals.
Learners will identify when a multiple-session interview may be necessary.
Learners will learn to adjust the CornerHouse Forensic Interview Protocol into a Planned Multiple-session interview.
Learners will explore considerations for the Multidisciplinary Team regarding incorporating multiple session interviews in current practice.

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This training being offered FREE to MDT members within the state of Minnesota. MDT members include any Child Advocacy Center (CAC) staff, law enforcement/peace officers, Department of Children and Families, attorneys and advocates within a county attorney’ office, medical providers and educators who serve/work with their local Child Advocacy Center. Please email if you have questions regarding the MDT requirements.

IHS The Power of Ethical Humility in Working with Adolescents
2025-02-19 12:00 - 15:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Using ethical humility when working with adolescents allows professional expertise and client self-advocacy to complement one another. Ethical decision-making is particularly challenging with adolescents because legal rights, ethical concerns, and guidelines change as clients age. An ethical humility framework enables you to support your client’s growth and development while upholding your professional responsibilities.
Exploring the micro and macro levels of ethical humility in your work with adolescents ensures that you support your clients’ rights to self-advocacy in your professional role. The complex interplay of individual and parental rights with varied laws and guidelines requires careful consideration. As a child progresses from adolescence to adulthood, their decision-making capacity evolves. Developing an ethical decision-making process ensures that adolescent clients receive appropriate care from professionals. Adopting an ethical humility perspective strengthens the professional’s ability to meet the client where they are.
Ethical decision-making is crucial for all professionals working with adolescents. This intermediate-level virtual course is appropriate for psychologists, social workers, counselors, and other helping professionals who work with adolescents in their practice.
Learning Objectives

Describe the framework of ethical humility as applied to working with adolescents.
Describe the impact of changing developmental stages in addressing ethical dilemmas with adolescents.
Utilize ethical humility principles in communication with their clients to prevent, assess, and manage ethical dilemmas.
Develop a plan regarding professional consultation to address ethical dilemmas.

About the Trainer
Laura Gaines, MSW, LISW-S., is a trainer and researcher with a current focus on resilience as an individual and community skill. She has been an Ohio Child Welfare Training Program trainer and curriculum developer for over 20 years. Laura has served as a volunteer on the Crisis Text Line since April 2020.
​Her career experiences include being a child and adolescent therapist for over 20 years, and 15 years working with children and adults who have developmental disabilities, thus providing thousands of opportunities to work with clients and their families in moments of crisis. Laura has specialized training in Trauma Informed Care and presented at the 2021 Ohio Children’s Alliance conference: Eighth Annual Trauma Informed Care Summit. Her trainings focus on child development, mental health, developmental disabilities, ethics, trauma-informed care, resilience, and each person’s individual solutions to their life’s challenges.
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Justice Clearinghouse | New Year, New Money Mission: Setting & Funding Your Financial Goals
2025-02-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Webinar
Training Overview
Start the new year with a clear vision and a solid plan for your financial future. In this webinar, we’ll explore goal-setting techniques tailored specifically for first responders’ busy lives. Learn how to set realistic, achievable financial goals, prioritize them based on your lifestyle, and develop effective funding strategies.
By the end of this session, participants will have a roadmap for 2025, helping participants reach their financial milestones without sacrificing their personal life or well-being.
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