Brandi.Miller
Near Record Number of South Dakotans to be Trained on Child Abuse Prevention
With more than 500 South Dakotans attending, the 24th Annual Community Response to Child Abuse Conference, begins on October 3 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. The attendees representing 130 regional organizations, schools, and businesses will hear from national [...]
eSANE Training Series: Working with Interpreters
Explore an important topic in serving non-native English speakers – effectively working with interpreters. Trainer: Valeria Wicker, Program Supervisor, LSS Multi-Cultural Center
SD ECCS September 2024 Update
A Few Spots Remain in the Empowering Families Retreat, October 18-19 Limited registration is still available for the Empowering Families Retreat, created by families for families and sponsored by ECCS and the SD Family Engagement Center. A 100 parenting [...]
WIC CIAO Update September 2024
WIC Community Innovation and Outreach Project Update In 2023, Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment, a center of the University of South Dakota, was one of 36 WIC CIAO grant awardees. The project includes outreach to families with [...]
The Process & Practice of Cultural Humility
Recognize the differences between cultural competence and cultural humility and identify tools to support increasing self-awareness in order to increase capacity for cultural humility. Training provided through the WIC CIAO Project by Erika Iverson, SD Urban Indian Health
September 2024 Newsletter
In this issue: Message from Director: End Online Child Abuse CPCM to Host National Expert on Child Health and Wellbeing eSANE Trainings Online Empowering Families Retreat Court Improvement Program Training Registration SANE Training Opportunities WIC CIAO Learning Opportunities End [...]
CPCM Hosts National Expert on Child Health and Wellbeing
This month, with support from the U.S. Department Agriculture’s WIC Community Innovation and Outreach grant, the Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment (CPCM) at the University of South Dakota will host, Jennifer Weber, MPH, RD, a national expert [...]
Cultural Competency Series: Cross-Cultural Communication
Engage in a language immersion experience and discuss challenges of language acquisition. Training provided through the WIC CIAO Project in partnership with LSS, presented by Laura Smith-Hill.
eSANE Training Series: Hidden in Plain Sight – Strangulation, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence often involves physical violence targeted at the head, neck, and face–through blows to the head or strangulation. Though this has been common knowledge for decades, brain injuries caused by violence are unacknowledged, rarely identified and almost never immediately treated. Trainer: Rachel Ramirez, The Center on Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury at the Ohio Domestic Violence Network
Children and Sexual-Based Online Harms: A Guide for Professionals
This session will cover research around the risks and vulnerabilities of children accessing the internet, online grooming and exploitation, impacts of children viewing pornography online, what we can do as professionals, parents, and policymakers. Presented by Chrissie Young, Director, CPCM and Heather Knox, Assistant United States Attorney, U.S Attorney’s Office
