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March 2022
March Learning Series: Understanding Self-Care – Building a Self-Care Plan Workshop
These free trainings are open to everyone via Zoom, with registration required. You may choose to attend one, any or all sessions. Self-care is important for any professionals who work with vulnerable children and/or adults, as well as for parents and even youth 14+. It’s especially important now, with many people experiencing burnout due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In these sessions, you will: • Learn what self-care is and is not • Understand the need for and ethics of self-care…
Find out more »Court Improvement Program March Lunch & Learn – Conversations with a Foster Family
The Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment and the South Dakota Unified Judicial System are hosting monthly Court Improvement Program (CIP) trainings for attorneys, judges, and other multidisciplinary professionals working with families involved in abuse and neglect cases. The goal of these trainings is to provide relevant and up-to-date information on the South Dakota child welfare system, while offering unique approaches and standards for best practices when working with children throughout the court process. By learning more you can…
Find out more »April 2022
Child Abuse Prevention Breakfast
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The South Dakota Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment (CPCM) invites you to join us in commemorating this important month by raising awareness of how we can help our fellow South Dakotans know about, respond to, and prevent child maltreatment. Together we will build resilient children and families. You will learn how protective factors and adverse childhood experiences impact families and communities. Hear motivational stories of resilience and ways that you can…
Find out more »Child Welfare Legal Workshop
Child welfare and legal professionals will detail their multidisciplinary roles in the legal proceedings of child welfare cases in South Dakota. Students and professionals in law, criminal justice, and child protection will interact and learn from leaders in the field! The event will be held in the ballroom of the Muenster University Center at the USD campus in Vermillion, SD. The workshop begins with registration and lunch at 11:30am Central Time with best practice presentations for child abuse and neglect…
Find out more »Enough Abuse Strategies for Your Family and Community
Join us for Enough Abuse: Strategies for Family and Community Trainings are open to everyone via Zoom, with registration required. Social Work CEU’s and Certificate of Attendance offered. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Learn more about how you can help keep kids safe from harm. Register today! Training Description: Child sexual abuse is “a silent epidemic,” according to the American Medical Association. It is so widespread that each of us probably knows someone who has been victimized or who…
Find out more »Behind the Curtain Webinar Series: Behavioral Health Prevalence Data Overview
Greetings! Have you ever wanted to pull back the curtain to learn more about the Division of Behavioral Health and publicly funded behavioral health services? The Division’s “Behind the Curtain” webinar series is an opportunity to do just that. Listen as Division staff members and guest panelists provide a behind-the-scenes look at community and correctional based publicly funded behavioral health services, share prevention updates, and share how Division is uses data to drive system improvement. Grab your lunch and join…
Find out more »April 18, 2022 to April 22, 2022 Community Hall, Ft. Thompson SD
PURPOSE: FOSTER PARENT TRAINERS The Crow Creek Foster Care Committee is diligently working to increase the number of licensed foster parents on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation. In order to carry out the goals of increasing the number of foster parents on the reservation, we would like to train community members to become foster parent trainers. A foster parent trainer will train community members to become foster parents. The foster parent trainer will encourage people to become foster parents, in…
Find out more »6th Annual South Dakota Adoption Conference
FREE to Department of Social Services Employees!! Join us for the 6th Annual Adoption Conference- "Beyond the Match", where we'll focus on preparing and supporting families for permanency. This conference is co-sponsored by the Department of Social Services and Children's Home Society of South Dakota. Professional Session: 7:30-3:30 MT/8:30-4:30 CT Parent Session: 6-8 MT/7-9 CT Preparing and supporting families for permanency We think we found a family! Now the real work begins. This session will focus on how to educate and prepare…
Find out more »Bright Spots – Suicide “Bright Spot” Learning Collaborative
Bright Spots – Suicide “Bright Spot” Learning Collaborative Online 12:00 pm Thursday, April 21, 2022 until 1:00 pm Thursday, April 21, 2022 The Center for Prevention of Child Maltreatment is presenting on ACES and how preventing child maltreatment and adversity can prevent attempts and deaths by suicide. Join partners in suicide prevention to celebrate Bright Spots, successful and impactful work going on right here in South Dakota. This learning collaborative will take place virtually monthly. There will be a brief…
Find out more »Court Improvement Program April Lunch & Learn – Role of a State’s Attorney in a Child Abuse and Neglect Case
The Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment and the South Dakota Unified Judicial System are hosting monthly Court Improvement Program (CIP) trainings for attorneys, judges, and other multidisciplinary professionals working with families involved in abuse and neglect cases. The goal of these trainings is to provide relevant and up-to-date information on the South Dakota child welfare system, while offering unique approaches and standards for best practices when working with children throughout the court process. By learning more you can…
Find out more »Rolling Out the Sexual Assault Toolkit
Presenter: Becki Jordan, Law Enforcement Project Coordinator at the South Dakota Network Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault The training will cover the newly released South Dakota Sexual Assault Response Team Toolkit, which will be a helpful resource for SANEs and all systems professionals responding to incidents of sexual assault in communities.
Find out more »May 2022
Virtual CAASt Spring 2022 K-12 Training
The University of South Dakota Child & Adult Advocacy Studies Program and the Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment are offering a FREE five-hour training for schools on mandatory reporting, youth suicide awareness and prevention, multidisciplinary approaches, and trauma-informed interventions. Sessions Child Well-Being in South Dakota Child Development & Stress A Framework for a Safe & Successful School Trauma-Informed Classrooms School Leaders’ Response to Trauma-Informed Environments *Sponsored by S.D. Department of Education
Find out more »Enough Abuse Strategies for Your Family and Community
Join us for Enough Abuse: Strategies for Family and Community Trainings are open to everyone via Zoom, with registration required. Social Work CEU’s and Certificate of Attendance offered. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Learn more about how you can help keep kids safe from harm. Register today! Training Description: Child sexual abuse is “a silent epidemic,” according to the American Medical Association. It is so widespread that each of us probably knows someone who has been victimized or who…
Find out more »June 2022
Enough Abuse Strategies for Your Family and Community
Join us for Enough Abuse: Strategies for Family and Community Trainings are open to everyone via Zoom, with registration required. Social Work CEU’s and Certificate of Attendance offered. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Learn more about how you can help keep kids safe from harm. Register today! Training Description: Child sexual abuse is “a silent epidemic,” according to the American Medical Association. It is so widespread that each of us probably knows someone who has been victimized or who…
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