Sarah Schuh Child Abuse Conference

Sarah Schuh Child Abuse Conference

 Day 1: Thursday, April 19, 8:00am - 5:00pm 

Day 2:  Friday, April 20, 10:00am - 4:00pm 

Overall Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

_ List three common internalizing behaviors related to child abuse

_ Describe signs and symptoms of Apparent Life Threatening Events (ALTE) as they relate to child abuse

_ Coordinate with Child Abuse Pediatrician, DSS and LE when conducting an ALTE evaluation.

_ Describe strategies to use to leverage family religious beliefs to assist in healing in families who have experienced trauma.

_ Ask sufficiently appropriate questions to correctly state mechanism of injury and likelihood the injury is from abuse

_ Know when and when not to test for specific STI’s in sexually abused children.

_ Engage both clients and the system in the Protection Clarification process

_ Recognize symptoms of secondary traumatic stress in yourself and your colleagues and take steps to moderate and manage those reactions so that they will be able to continue protecting children