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- Mar 31, 2020
New! APSAC Advisor 32(1)
APSAC is pleased to bring you the latest issue of the APSAC Advisor, edited by Christopher Greeley, MD, with a special section guest-edited by Kathleen Coulborn Faller, PhD, ACSW, LMSW. The full Table of Contents includes: Intrafamilial Child Torture: Training Mandated Reporters | Pamela J. Miller Advancing Trauma-Informed Programs in Schools to Promote Resilience and Child Well-Being | Todd I. Herrenkohl, Sunghyun Hong, and Bethany Verbrugge Special "Contested Issues" Sectio
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- Mar 31, 2020
Upcoming Webinar from ISPCAN: Child Welfare and Pandemics: What We Know and What We Can Do | April 3
Register Here As child protection researchers and practitioners worldwide work to understand and manage the unprecedented effects of COVID-19 on systems of care, we invite you to join us for this special presentation by Barbara Fallon of the University of Toronto and Delphine Collin-Vezina of McGill University. Dr. Fallon and Dr. Collin-Vezina will share information from the new University of Toronto Policy Bench report, Child Welfare and Pandemics Literature Scan (Sistovaris
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- Mar 24, 2020
Announcing the APSAC & Foundling Online Course
APSAC and The Vincent J Fontana Center of the New York Foundling are proud to present our new Online Course, featuring 29 lectures by national experts on critical issues in child maltreatment! If you find the disruption in work for you and your team due to COVID-19 has created time in your workday for professional development, consider taking advantage of our $25 introductory price to take the APSAC & Foundling Online Course. Group pricing is available - consider assigning in
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- Mar 24, 2020
New! APSAC Alert Volume 11, Issue 1:
Understanding Child Maltreatment 2018
APSAC is pleased to bring you our latest edition of the APSAC Alert! This edition, authored by APSAC Executive Director Dr. Janet Rosenzweig, provides a summary of the report Child Maltreatment 2018 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau, as well as information on how the report can be used for education and advocacy. We hope you find this useful. APSAC members can now access decades of past editions o
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- Mar 23, 2020
A Note About COVID-19 and the APSAC Colloquium
March 23 Update: APSAC is working with local health officials and The Sheraton Hotel, our venue, and expect to have additional information the first week of April. March 16: APSAC has been carefully monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak. As an organization dedicated to bringing data- and evidence-based practices to serve at-risk children and families, we are closely monitoring the best information and recommendations from public health officials in New Orleans, nationally and inte
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- Mar 19, 2020
Observing Child Abuse Prevention Month During the COVID-19 Pandemic
APSAC is here to support you in identifying way to acknowledge April as Child Abuse Prevention Month, even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. While physical health and safety is taking priority, advocates may be able to find opportunities to promote child safety as April approaches. One traditional approach to Child Abuse Prevention Month is to ask the Mayor to issue a proclamation declaring it Child Abuse Prevention Month in your city or county. While it is possible that
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- Mar 18, 2020
COVID-19 Letter to Child Welfare Leaders
The following is a message from Dr. Jerry Milner, Associate Commissioner, Children's Bureau to child welfare leaders in response to COVID-19. Dear Child Welfare Leaders: In light of the extraordinary circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide public health emergency, we are writing to advise you of some adjustments that we hope will allow you to continue to serve the children and families with whom you work, while being mindful of and adhering to current pu
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- Mar 6, 2020
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice From an Expert
NOTE FROM APSAC – We have vetted this letter and concluded it is authentic; we find this advice so compelling that we are sharing it with you! The author is James Robb - a virologist at UC San Diego. COVID-19 (coronavirus) advice from an expert: Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic Dear Colleagues, As some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular vi
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