Training Opportunities
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Virtual Trainings
North Dakota Baby Safe Haven
Recommended for personnel working at approved locations under the North Dakota Baby Safe Haven Law as well as members of the general public who would like to learn more about the Baby Safe Haven Law in North Dakota. A certificate of completion will be provided after taking the course and quiz.
The objectives of this training are to identify approved Baby Safe Haven locations, recognize when the Baby Safe Haven law does and does not apply, and understand the actions required after a Baby Safe Haven request. Also, it will identify the roles of law enforcement, Emergency Medical Services, and Child Protective
Services in baby abandonment, identify the steps taken when a baby is abandoned at a hospital, and understand the steps to take if a parent changes his or her mind about abandoning a baby.
(Free Training)
Mandated Reporter Training
Mandated reporters are people whose profession requires them to report suspected child abuse or neglect. In partnership with the North Dakota Department of Human Services, we’re pleased to offer this easy-to-use training for mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect in North Dakota.
If you’re a mandated reporter, you have a chance to make the world a much better place, one child at a time. This course explains:
Why it’s so important to report
How to spot abuse and neglect
When to report it
How to report it
What happens after a report is filed
(Free Training)
Sexual Abuse Prevention Trainings
Healthy Sexual Development
By Prevent Child Abuse Vermont
Adults often feel discomfort speaking with children about sexual development, though children want conversations about it. Also, some adults may not know the developmentally expected sexual behaviors of children or how to respond. This training provides adults with this knowledge and also practical skills indicated in research to decrease the development of harmful sexual behaviors during childhood and decrease risk of child sexual abuse. This training was created by Prevent Child Abuse Vermont. This training is 2 ½ hours.
Technicool
There are multiple kinds of digital risks for children today, such as internet pornography, online groomers, and sexting. It is important for caregivers and teachers to have the information and tools to respond. Adults will learn:
the digital risks for children for children and strategies was to keep children and youth safe in a digital environment
effective strategies for responding to children exhibiting concerning behavior
Stewards of Children®
Darkness to Light
Darkness to Light’s flagship, evidence-informed prevention training to help adults prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The training is 2 ½ hours and features survivor stories, experts in the field, and other concerned individuals all providing practical guidance to prevent child sexual abuse.
CSA 101 & Task Force Information
Learn what child sexual abuse is, its prevalence & impacts, grooming behaviors and prevention strategies (for adults & children). This training covers the history of the ND Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Task Force, the guiding pillars of the Task Force and highlights a statewide environmental scan that was conducted in 2022.
(Free Training)
KASI
Keeping Adolescent Youth Safe on the Internet
Today’s youth live in a world that is fully intertwined with technology. This training provides adults with a deeper understanding of the multiple kinds of digital risks all youth encounter in the digital environment: Online grooming, in person grooming facilitated by digital communications, sexting, and online pornography. We also look at legal consequences for minors engaging in consensual or non-consensual sexting.
Trauma Informed Services
ACE Interface Master Trainer Program
ACE Interface, LLC is a public health education and consultation firm led by Dr. Robert Anda and Laura Porter that helps community and sector leaders to improve population wellbeing. They use the powerful findings and concepts from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study and decades of developing successful applications with the Self-Healing Communities model to provide for the learning and sharing necessary to generate culturally accountable solutions to diverse public health problems.
The products and services of ACE Interface are designed to have a multiplier effect that disseminates knowledge and practices rapidly and to a wide audience. To bring ACE training to your community, follow the links below.
Connections Matter
This is a community based initiative that explores how the connections we make in life profoundly impact our brain’s ability to grow and our our individual abilities. This training educates the public on the intersecting topics of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), trauma, brain development, and resilience. This training is evidence-informed and demonstrates how Aces adversely affect brain development and health outcomes—and how caring connections serve as a primary buffer in the negative effects of trauma. Connections Matter ultimately strives to promote the building of a more resilient, compassionate, and trauma-informed communities.
Trauma Courses One & Two
Course 1: Trauma Informed
This introductory course discusses emerging scientific findings in the fields of N.E.A.R science, how to use the knowledge of brain networks to understand behavior, and CRI’s signature strategy to responding to trauma. The key objective is to provide information about identifying and responding to trauma with evidence-based resilience strategies when working with an audience whose trauma history may not be known.
Course 2: Trauma Supportive
This course will help you to transform your organization, classroom, or family through resilience-based strategies. Using trauma-informed principles, attendees will learn more than 30 strategies and promising approaches utilized by some of the nation’s finest trauma-informed practitioners.
*Participants must complete Course 1 in its entirety in order to progress to Course 2.
Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Work
The Strengthening Families approach and protective factors framework is a research-informed, strengths-based approach that prevents child abuse and neglect by focusing on the well-being of all families and helping families identify and build on their own protective factors. The Strengthening Families™ Protective Factor Framework includes the following five protective factors: Parental Resilience, Social Connections, Social/Emotional Competence of Children, Concrete Support in Times of Need & Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development. This training is great for both professionals and caregivers!