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Education has the power to prevent abuse, strengthen responses, and support healing. Child’s Place maintains this collection of training opportunities for professionals, caregivers, educators, and community members who want to build their knowledge and better support children and caregivers.
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October 2026
Training for Advocates Working with a CAC
First Witness Child Advocacy Center’s advocacy program bridges the gap between individual advocacy with one victim and system-based advocacy that creates change for many victims. This contrasts with more restrictive advocacy models that are based on delivering services identified by practitioners and systems rather than victims.
ChildFirst® Refresher
This 1-day training is an opportunity to revisit the ChildFirst® forensic interview protocol. Participants will review recent updates to the protocol, practical applications and logistical processes, skills needed to successfully complete or monitor a forensic interview, and updates to research in the field of child abuse/maltreatment and forensic interviewing.
VINE and Haven: Understanding Minnesota’s Two Victim Notification Systems
Providing notification to victims when an incarcerated person is released or has a change in custody status is an essential safety tool for crime victims. In this webinar, the presenters will review the features of each system and the process to request notifications as well as highlight their differences.
November 2026
Protecting Children in a Digital Age
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.
CornerHouse Basic Forensic Interview Training
This training teaches the CornerHouse Forensic Interview Protocol™ a credible, reliable, developmentally flexible and non-traumatic forensic interview protocol appropriate for children, adolescents and vulnerable adults involved in a sexual abuse investigation.
Forensic Interviewing with High-Risk Youth: Identifying and Responding to Trafficking Concerns
Children identified as potential trafficking/exploitation victims present many challenges in the forensic interview. Challenges range from reluctance to disclose information to the disclosure of multiple victimizations by numerous offenders occurring in various locations. This training will equip interviewers with skills to effectively plan for and conduct the high-risk or trafficking interview.
More Than One Interview: When, Why, and How
This training will review supportive literature, introduce a decision-making process for selecting appropriate cases, and guidance for conducting follow-up forensic interviews. Recommendations for explaining and defending the multi-session approach is included.
Mind the Gap
Mind the Gap is an advanced training designed for advocates who have already completed a comprehensive 24-hour Advocacy Training. This course builds upon the foundational principles of victim advocacy.
Aligned for Impact: Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration in Child Protection
Aligned for Impact: Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration in Child Protection is a newly redesigned, interactive, no-cost, in-person gathering designed to strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration and improve outcomes for children and families. Through facilitated discussions, peer to peer learning, and individualized consultation with state and local experts, participants will identify practical strategies that can be applied within their own multidisciplinary teams, tailored to their team's stage of development.
Reading the Room: The Importance of Understanding Body Language in Forensic Interviews
participants will learn about the importance of being able to recognize body language cues in forensic interviews and to what extent they happen subconsciously. We will discuss how body language cues may be dependent on a child’s age, culture, and experiences.
Interviewing Children on the Autism Spectrum
Children with neuro-divergent disorders such as ASD are at an increased risk of child maltreatment. This training will focus on tips for information gathering, preparation with the investigative partners to set reasonable expectations, and adaptations to questioning strategies and interview phases.
Follow-up Forensic Interviews
This one-day advanced training prepares forensic interviewers to conduct developmentally sensitive, legally sound follow-up interviews with children in abuse investigations. Participants begin with a historical overview of how concerns about “multiple interviews” shaped past practice, followed by a review of current research and professional guidance supporting individualized, case-informed decisions about when additional interviews are appropriate.
ChildFirst® Forensic Interview Training
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. 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.
December 2026
ChildFirst® Expanded Forensic Interview
This training training provides a purposeful and legally defensible process for conducting expanded forensic interviews with children who may not succeed in a standard, single interview due to trauma, developmental, special needs or other complicating issues, including polyvictimization.
Effective Case Tracking Processes for CACs and MDTs
This training describes how CACs and MDTs can develop and maintain effective case tracking processes, tracking essential information from the day of the interview through final potential criminal convictions.
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