Responding to Child Abuse
Come and learn how to identify cases of child abuse, handle disclosures without contaminating evidence and to clarify your role when working with police and child welfare.
Presenter: Lynn Barry
Date: November 1, 2006 9:00-4:00
Teaching Objectives:
- To provide community professionals with the opportunity to introduce themselves and the agencies they represent
- To define child abuse, specifically physical, neglect, emotional and sexual
- To clarify the mandates and legislation that authorizes the investigative activities of police and child welfare workers.
- To identify child abuse situations in which community professionals may find themselves
- To identify the various indicators associated with the various types of child abuse
- To provide participants with the knowledge of child development and how investigative practices can be impacted or can in turn impact the child.
- To provide participants with the knowledge, skills and abilities to receive a disclosure of abuse from a child
- To have participants be able to make an appropriate child abuse referral to child welfare authorities
- To provide community professionals with the opportunity to express their frustrations in working with child abuse investigators
- To educate community professionals about the investigative process that occurs after a referral of child abuse has been made
- To familiarize community professionals with the fears and concerns of both the child and family when a child abuse investigation occurs
- To summarize the workshop and to provide participants with the opportunity to evaluate the day
