Co-trainer Webinar

Child Abuse and Maltreatment

Identification and Prevention with a Focus

on Early Childhood Trauma

December 6, 2012

Agenda Welcome Discuss Importance of Webinars Review Co-trainer guide Checking satellite transmission Webcast Address any questions/concerns Close

Webinars Tool to better help us work together There will be a webinar for each VC Typically Tuesday before VC from 1-2 PM Time to review Co-trainer guide, activity

sessions, and additional information Questions and concerns can be

submitted and addressed

VC OverviewModerator: Colleen Faragon

Live Guests: Trauma: Evelyn BlanckMs. Blanck is the Associate Executive Director of the New York Center for Child Development and the Co-President of New York State Zero to Three.

Joanne TrinkleMs. Trinkle is the Director of Special Training Projects

at Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany, NY.

Overview continuedLive Guests: CAM:

Kelleena RichardsMs. Richards provides assistance and training for mandated reporters statewide and has reviewed over 22,000 cases of child abuse and neglect as a Senior Attorney for OCFS.

Patrick ToomanMr. Tooman is involved in the development of curricula and the delivery of training to improve child welfare practice and service delivery throughout New York State.

Segment 1-Early Childhood Trauma: Infants to

Preschoolers

This segment will focus on: defining childhood trauma; identifying causes of trauma in young

children; describing effects children experiencing

trauma might exhibit; and exploring child development in relation to

trauma in infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Activity Session-Community Resources

Lotto Break- Remember to Turn down your TV’s

Begin by having participants think about resources available in their community that could assist them or families in their program experiencing a traumatic event.

Have them write down at least one resource (generic or specific) on the activity sheet for each of the following areas:

Weather or event related Medical or illness related

Divorce or separation Death

Bullying Abuse or maltreatment

Activity Session-Community Resources

continuedLotto Break- Remember to Turn down your TV’s

Have the group share resources they wrote down. Encourage all participants to write down

additional ideas for each category during the group discussion. Remind participants they can use the back of their activity sheet or a note page in the back of their participant materials booklet if they need more space for writing down ideas.

If time permits, read the article on pages 2-4 of the participant materials booklet titled “Trauma in Young Children: A Huge Problem Hiding in Plain Sight and How You Can Help”.

Segment 2–Early Childhood Trauma: School-Age and

Beyond

This segment will focus on:exploring child development in relation to trauma in school-agers;identifying the different levels of stress;providing advice to share with families whose children might be experiencing a traumatic event; discussing resilience and recovery from trauma; anddefining compassion fatigue or secondary traumatic stress.

Discussion Session-Taking Care of Yourself

Begin by having participants think about ways they can take better care of themselves to reduce the amount of stress they experience.

Have participants get together with a partner, or have a whole group discussion, where providers share their stress reducing ideas.

Segment 3-CAM: Definitions and Indicators

This segment will focus on:defining the elements of child maltreatment and neglect;defining the term child abuse; andidentifying physical and behavioral indicators of child abuse or maltreatment.

Activity Session-Making the Call

Begin by having participants think about possible barriers or obstacles they might encounter or think about when debating making a call to the Statewide Central Register.

Have participants write down at least 3 barriers on their activity sheet.

Activity Session-Making the Call

continued

Then have participants think about suggestions for ways they could overcome the barriers they listed.

They should write these ideas down in the space provided on the activity sheet.

If time permits, participants should share some of their ideas about barriers and ways to overcome them with the group.

Segment 4–CAM: Mandated Reporters and Making the

Call

This segment will focus on:discussing the importance of conducting a Daily Health Check;defining mandated reporters and their responsibilities;describing the process of making a call to the Statewide Central Register; andidentifying possible barriers to making a call to the SCR and discussing why those barriers should never stop you from making a call.

Test Test is “open book” so it should

be given out at the beginning of the training and can be filled out as the training takes place. Test will be read aloud twice at the end

of the training. Attestation statement must be signed in

order to receive credit for the training.

Other Important Information Be sure to review all policies and

procedures in the Co-trainer guide.

Be sure to check your satellite transmission! The satellite system can be checked for transmission from

12:15-12:35 Monday-Friday. You will see the NYS Lottery drawing being aired.

If you test your equipment and don’t have a signal, please call New York Network at 518-453-9521 or 518-591-4869, so they can help you while the test is still running. Make sure you have access to the receiver and remote when calling

New York Network for assistance. Contact people at NYN: Dave.Poplawski@nyn.suny.edu, Ted.Were@nyn.suny.edu,

Steve.Pingelski@nyn.suny.edu 6:45 Test Pattern: Night of the Broadcast- A test pattern of color bars

and/or a Title Screen will appear on your TV/monitor screen at 6:45 P.M. If you do not see a test pattern or program announcement, please follow the steps in the Co-trainer guide to solve the problem then you can call to the UPDATED** Technical Assistance line- NYN- 518-453-9521 or 518-591-4869.

Webcast: Testing TEST link:

http://pointers.audiovideoweb.com/stcasx/va91win1520/ECETP%20TEST.wmv/play.asx

If you see a slate with “ECETP Webcast Test Videoconference Training” and have audio [music] the test has been successful and you will not need the satellite equipment.  This is NOT the link you will use the night of the broadcast/training. 

Webcast: Night Of For the night of the broadcast you will need to use the

following link:  http://pointers.audiovideoweb.com/asxfiles-live/1c2winlive6814.asx 

Please note:  This link will not be live until 6:15PM the night of the training, December 6, 2012.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Allison Sarnoff at 518-320-3722.

If your site uses the webcast option please let us know so that we can plan for future events. 

Questions? Concerns?

Thanks Thank you for joining us for this webinar

and for doing so much to make the Videoconference Trainings a success!