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The Institute for Adolescent Trauma Treatment & Training presents:
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT:
Concrete Steps and Tools to Prevent the Hitting of Children
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Workshop I:
No Hit Zones: Low-Cost, Low-Effort Interventions to Reduce the Hitting of Children in Our Communities
(January 31st, 2025: 10:00am - 12:00pm)
Workshop II:
What Child Welfare & Trauma Professionals Need to Know About Race & Corporal Punishment
(February 7th, 2025: 10:00am - 12:00pm)
Workshop III:
"When You Hit Me": Using Science to Educate Parents & Caregivers about the Hidden Harms of Physical Punishment
(February 14th, 2025: 10:00am - 12:00pm)
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** Up to 6.0 FREE CE's via Zoom **
* PLEASE NOTE: The first two workshops are encore presentations of previously held events. If you have already attended, please consult with your licensing board to determine if you will receive credit for your CEs. *
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** BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! **
Parents' attitudes toward, and use of, spanking are influenced by trusted professionals. When professionals communicate the dangers of spanking in a non-shaming or judgmental way, they can shift parents' perspective, leading to healthier outcomes for children and reducing the risk of child abuse.
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Workshop I: No Hit Zones: Low-Cost, Low-Effort Interventions to Reduce the Hitting of Children in Our Communities
(with Stacie LeBlanc)
In this first workshop, attendees will gain insights into creating environments where physical punishment is unequivocally unacceptable. The workshop will focus on an intervention known as No Hit Zones, which are institutional policies that promote intervention by bystanders when parents hit, or threaten to hit, their children. Ms. LeBlanc will briefly review the research supporting both the need for prevention and the effectiveness of No Hit Zones as an inexpensive and simple solution that bystanders can use to safely intervene and diffuse situations. No Hit Zones are a promising way of communicating the harms of corporal punishment, and moreover, the concept extends beyond the confines of the home, encompassing hospitals, schools, advocacy centers, home visiting programs, youth-serving agencies, and public spaces. Attendees will have access to No Hit Zones policies, signage, and Painless Parenting materials, and will learn how to effectively implement a No Hit Zone in their institution or community.
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Workshop II: What Child Welfare & Trauma Professionals Need to Know About Race & Corporal Punishment
(with Stacey Patton)
Nearly 700,000 children are abused each year in the United States and an average of 5 children die each day as a result of maltreatment. Researchers have found that spanking is the most prevalent risk factor for injuries and fatalities and that upwards of 70 percent of parents admit to using physical punishment. With these statistics in mind, in November 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a strong policy statement against spanking children, requiring pediatricians to address this very common but harmful parenting practice. Months later, the American Psychological Association released a new policy against spanking. Yet, many pediatricians, mental health professionals, and social workers are not prepared, either academically or in practice, to have this difficult conversation in an effective and efficient way in the exam room or other clinical settings. Professionals are also hesitant about broaching this controversial issue with parents from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. This presentation not only addresses these fears but will also provide participants with the communication tools to navigate these longstanding cultural landmines. The session will also use historical archives and biomedical science literature to dispel the myth that “whupping” children is a unique and intrinsic cultural practice among African Americans, and that black children do not experience the same harmful physical and psychological side effects as other groups of children.
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Workshop III: "When You Hit Me": Using Science to Educate Parents and Caregivers About the Hidden Harms of Physical Punishment
(with Stacey Patton)
In this interactive training, participants will explore the groundbreaking When You Hit Me app, which uses 3D medical animations to reveal the hidden, multi-system impacts of corporal punishment on a child’s developing brain and body. Participants will learn how to integrate the app into conversations with parents and caregivers to explain the physiological and emotional consequences of hitting, framing corporal punishment as a form of toxic stress and an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE). Through culturally sensitive approaches, attendees will gain the skills to challenge harmful norms and advocate for non-violent parenting practices that promote healthier, more resilient children.
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Registration
(Up to 6.0 FREE CEs)
Please note that each session has its own registration link.
* See important note below. *
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How?
A link to the training will be sent to the email used for registration 48 hours prior to the event.
Please register for each workshop separately if you would like to attend all three.
*Attendance is tracked via Zoom Analytics.
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When?
Workshop 1:
January 31st, 2025
10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M ET
Workshop 2:
February 7th, 2025
10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M ET
Workshop 3:
February 14th, 2025
10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M ET
Live via Zoom
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| |  | Stacie Schrieffer LeBlanc, JD, Med is a life-long child advocate. She is President Emeritus of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the co-founder of The UP Institute, the Executive Director of Up For Champions, and a CAST instructor at Tulane University. She has master degree in early childhood development and a law degree from Loyola Law School. Stacie has been working in the child maltreatment field for more than 33 years and spent first 10 years leading a child abuse felony prosecution program that reached a 94% conviction rate. She also worked for Children’s Hospital New Orleans for 19 years, providing legal advocacy and community education, and led the Audrey Hepburn Children at Risk Evaluation (CARE) Center and the New Orleans Children’s Advocacy Center. Stacie has been instrumental in passing many legislative amendments for the protection of children, designs and evaluates prevention programs, and provides training at the local, national, and international levels. She has published numerous articles, written five books and has been recognized for 11 successful legislative amendments by being named the Champion for Children for Policy and Legislation by Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana. She has received a Victims and Citizens Against Crime Lifetime Achievement Award, the FBI Directors and Community Leadership Award, Outstanding Prosecutor Award, City Business' Health Care Hero Award, APSAC outstanding service. In 2022 Stacie received the advocate of the year award from the American Psychology Association Section on Children for her dedication and success advancing No Hit Zones as an effective tool to to reduce a key risk factor of child abuse. She has created and evaluated multiple prevention programs including Teens, Sex, and The Law, Dear Parents, Painless Parenting and a child welfare curriculum. Stacie also chairs the National No Hit Zone Committee, which is currently tracking the rapid growth of organizational No Hit Zones.
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| | | Stacey Patton Ph.D. is an adoptee, child abuse survivor, and former foster youth turned award-winning author, journalist, and child advocate. Her reporting on issues of child welfare, race relations, and higher education has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Al Jazeera, BBC News, TheRoot.com, The Chronicle of Higher Education, ForHarriet.com, Dame Magazine. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, FOX News, CBS, and Democracy Now. Dr. Patton has won numerous journalism awards and citations from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists, National Association of Black Journalists, Scripps Howard Foundation, New York Women in Communications, and the Education Writers Association. In 2015, Dr. Patton was awarded the Vernon Jarrett Medal for her national commentary and reporting on race, and in 2016 the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children bestowed her with the Outstanding Service and Advancement of Cultural Competency in Child Maltreatment Prevention and Intervention Award.
As a nationally recognized child advocate, Dr. Patton travels the country delivering keynotes and professional trainings focused on combating racial disparities in child abuse cases, criminal prosecutions for child abuse, foster care placements, and corporal punishment in public schools, and diversion and restorative justice programs. She works as an intermediary between social service and law enforcement agencies seeking to improve services to communities of color.
Dr. Patton is currently a research associate at Morgan State University’s Institute for Urban Research in Baltimore, Maryland and an assistant professor of journalism at Howard University in Washington, DC. She is also the author of That Mean Old Yesterday – A Memoir (Simon and Schuster), Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America (Beacon Press), and the forthcoming book Strung Up: The Lynching of Black Children and Teenagers in America, 1880-1968 (Beacon Press).
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
** Attendance is tracked via Zoom using the email provided upon registering. Participants must attend the entire event
to receive CEs. Partial CEs will not be provided. **
This no-cost workshop is made possible through federal funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. All are welcome to register! However, please note you may not receive credit for your CEs if you attended this workshop in the past (particularly if you have attended within the same licensure cycle). Please consult with your licensing board to determine if you will receive credit for the workshop if you have already taken it previously.
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NYS Credentialing Information
*Social Workers
*Mental Health Counselors
*Marriage and Family Therapists
*CASAC Renewal Pending
*Psychologists
*Creative Arts Therapists
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For more information contact:
iatttworkshops@adelphi.edu
516-877-4063
Our team is here to help.
- Irene Jun, Program Coordinator
- Nicole Sullivan, LCSW
- Victor Labruna, PhD, Co-Director
- Mandy Habib, PsyD, Co -Director
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Continuing Education
Adelphi University School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0032, licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0068, licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0038, licensed psychologists #PSY-0081, and licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0032. The School of Social Work maintains responsibility for the program and its contents. This training is provided under the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Education and Training Provider Certification Number #0194. Training under a New York State OASAS Provider Certification is acceptable for meeting all or part of the CASAC/CPP/CPS education and training requirements.
Adelphi University School of Social Work: Continuing Education and Professional Development, #1786, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Adelphi University School of Social Work: Continuing Education and Professional Development maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/03/2023 – 03/03/2026. Social workers completing this course receive up to 6.0 continuing education credits.
Accessibility Statement
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Adelphi University require that all events be accessible. To request a reasonable accommodation, please contact the event host identified on the event webpage; please allow for a reasonable time frame. The event host, when necessary, will collaborate with the Student Access Office.
For further information, please contact the Student Access Office at 516.877.3806 or sao@adelphi.edu.
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Adelphi University
School of Social Work
Institute for Adolescent Trauma Treatment & Training
Phone (516) 877-4063 | Fax (516) 877-6222
iatttworkshops@adelphi.edu
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