FREE TRAINING OPPORTUNITY!
This amazing training opportunity is one you do not want to miss! 5 days of virtual webinars over the lunch period with a range of topics from some of CornerHouse's best trainers. Attend any or all of the webinars for FREE! Please join us for a week of informative webinars. CornerHouse Trainers will introduce you to a variety of topics that are imperative in cases of abuse and violence.
Each day there will be a 60-minute session to learn more about these topics.
Please join us for CornerHouse Summer Seminar Series. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about CornerHouse, Forensic Interviewing, and many topics related to maltreatment and healing! Each training will occur from 12:00 to 1:00 Central Time and will take place virtually on Zoom. CornerHouse will not be providing Continuing Educational Units, however, we are providing titles, descriptions, objectives, and trainer bios if you would like to submit/apply for CEU’s.
Monday - December 11, 2023
forensic interviewing protocols
Beginning in the 1980’s, leaders in the field of child abuse and neglect investigation identified the need for uniform and forensically sound strategies to investigate these cases. Thus, forensic interviewing protocols began to be developed based on emerging research and practice. The first protocol to be established was done so by the National Child Advocacy Center followed by CornerHouse and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). Today, there are many protocols widely used throughout the world. In this training, we will discuss differences and similarities in many commonly used protocols. This training will also briefly provide strategies for working with a Multi-Disciplinary Team trained in varying protocols.
Objectives:
Understand the history of child abuse investigations and how that history shaped the protocols we use today
Understand and be capable of recognizing the major Forensic Interviewing protocols used by professionals
Learn similarities and differences between the protocols
Identify tools for the Multi-Disciplinary team to work together even when trained in varying protocols
Tuesday - December 12, 2023
Grooming strategies regarding sexual exploitation and trafficking of youth
The act of recruiting someone into trafficking is intentional, planned and criminal. Learn tactics and techniques used by traffickers including targeting, recruiting and the grooming process. Understanding the emotional/trauma bond between the offender and victim is imperative to break this connection intervene when a minor is targeted. Research regarding childhood trauma, victim risk factors, juvenile justice, homeless and missing youth will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the types of traffickers and how they recruit their victims
Understand the grooming process how it is used to gain compliance
Learn the links of trafficking to childhood trauma, homeless and missing youth as well as additional risk and vulnerabilities.
Wednesday - December 13, 2023
Working together as a mult-disciplinary team
It is well known and widely supported that best practice is to conduct child abuse investigations within a multidisciplinary team. However, the differences in perspectives, needs, and goals that make the MDT process so valuable can also result in challenges and conflict, even within teams that respect and value each other. Along with reviewing information regarding the benefits of an MDT approach and some of the challenges that may arise, this webinar will identify strategies that can increase the functioning of the MDT.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the benefits of MultiDisciplinary Team collaboration in the context of child abuse investigations
Recognize common causes of challenges or conflict within MDTs
Learn strategies for creating and maintaining a well-functioning MDT
Thursday - December 14, 2023
strangulation: what you don’t know can kill you
Strangulation and suffocation often occur within abusive and violent relationships and acts. Often the victim doesn’t recognize signs and symptoms such as loss of consciousness, labored breathing, horse and rasping vocalizations and delayed symptoms such as dizziness, nausea and blood clots. Unfortunately, many professionals also miss the symptoms and fail to screen for strangulation and/or suffocation. If you work with victims of child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault and general assault, adding screening questions is imperative. Not only is strangulation a felony, it is also potentially deadly immediately and delayed for victims. Please join to be introduced to the basics of strangulation and suffocation.
Learning Objectives:
Identify signs and symptoms of strangulation and suffocation.
Learn some screening questions when working with victims.
Recognize risk factors that are related to strangulation and suffocation.