The Child Advocacy Center offers a wide variety of training opportunities. In the past, we have provided training to a variety of agencies including service organizations, religious organizations, schools, therapists, child protection workers, and law enforcement agencies.
Call the Child Advocacy Center at 407-9739 if you would like us to provide training to your organization.
Available Training Topics:
- Child Advocacy Center: Who We Are & What We Do
- Minimal Facts Protocol
- Interviewing Children (includes information on question types, memory and suggestibility, child development and process of disclosure)
- Dynamics of Sexual Abuse
- Mandated Reporting
- How to respond to a child’s disclosure of sexual abuse
- Stewards of Children Adult Based Sexual Abuse Prevention Training
- Other topics as requested…
Lunch with the CAC
The CAC coordinates regular brown bag lunches throughout the year on topics related to child maltreatment. Go to our “News and Events” tab to see information on the next free Lunch With the CAC presentation and how to RSVP.
Young. Empowered. Women.
We would like to introduce our new program, Young Empowered Women (Y.E.W.). We are looking for girls 10 and 11 years old to participate in a once a month fun-filled event to begin in February 2011 and extend throughout the year. We are looking for exciting ways to improve lives by helping establish quality relationships between children and adult volunteers for the purpose of promoting stability, support, friendship and community.
Some of the program’s specific goals are: to provide positive role modeling for youth; to create opportunities for children to develop interest, skills and cultural awareness; to increase opportunities for children to build relationships with adult mentors. Some examples of activities we will provide for the Y.E.W. are: yoga, photography, cooking, crafts, games, movie nights and much more.
If you know of a girl who would benefit from this program or if you would like more information, please contact Ana Pasini-Sluss at the Child Advocacy Center at 407-9739 x 14 or at ana@larimercac.org.
We are also looking for sponsors for Y.E.W., so if you are interested in helping support this effort, please contact Ana.
Prevention
School-Based Prevention
Talking About Touching: A Personal Safety Curriculum
In 2006 a committee was formed within the Child Advocacy Center to explore the need for stronger child sexual abuse prevention efforts in Larimer County. The program committee met with the Poudre School District Counselors and researched multiple prevention programs. The Talking About Touching curriculum was chosen. The program was piloted in 2007 by one facilitator and 2 schools in their K-3rd grade classrooms (approx 300 students) and grew in 2008 to include one more facilitator and more schools.
Today, over 3000 students participate in the program. TAT facilitators meet with individual classrooms once a week for 4-5 weeks depending on the grade. Students are taught about general safety rules such as fire, walking and seat belt safety during the first weeks of the class.
Conversation then turns to what are safe/unsafe touches and what to do if they get an unsafe touch. Students also learn steps to take if someone touches their private body parts: saying No, getting away and telling an adult. All of the lessons are interactive and include role plays, question and answer and listening to books and singing songs.
Here are a couple quotes from counselors at schools currently using the TAT program:
“Thanks so much for a great year with TAT. You are so professional and so supportive, and we very much appreciate your dedication.”
“We absolutely love all that you do for our kids and would love to continue with you all.”
If you are involved with a PSD school and are interested in getting more information about the TAT program for your school, please email Jennifer Buchanan at jenn@larimercac.org or call 214-1006.
Prevention for Adults
Stewards of Children: Adult Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Training
Contact Ana for more information or to schedule this training for your organization at ana@larimercac.org.
If you, your organization, or your corporation are interested in sponsoring prevention programs through the Child Advocacy Center, please contact Laura at laura@larimercac.org.
Internet Safety Training
This is a program of the Fort Collins Police. The 2011 schedule of presentations has been completed, and we will post the 2012 schedule once we receive it.
