APSAC's Top Stories
Latest APSAC Advisor now Available for Everyone!
NEW!
Download the APSAC App! | Available for iOS and Android!
Preview the APSAC Online Course!
|
|
|
Introducing the APSAC App
|
|
APSAC is proud to bring you our new app! Utilize our private members-only social network, search for other members in our private directory, view and share press releases/member news, register for events, and more!
When you download the app, please be sure to have you APSAC username and password ready so that you can access all of the app’s great features. Contact
info@apsac.org
if you need to reset your password.
|
|
How to Download:
Apple
:
Download using this link
or scan the iTunes QR Code with your phone. If you choose to scan the QR code, use your favorite QR scanning app or download one for free from the iTunes store by searching “QR Scanner.”
Android
:
Download using this link
or scan the Android QR Code with your phone. If you choose to scan the QR code, use your favorite QR scanning app or download one for free from the Google Play Store by searching “QR Scanner.”
|
|
Join Us in Salt Lake City | 26th APSAC Colloquium
|
|
Early Bird Registration Ends May 21! | Register Today!
APSAC's 26th Colloquium brings high-quality learning opportunities to child maltreatment researchers and practitioners across experience levels and professions. Sessions have been designated as beginning, intermediate, or advanced level content. Sessions will be designed for professionals in mental health, social work, medicine and nursing, law, education, law enforcement, prevention, research, advocacy, child protective service, and allied fields.
|
|
Renew Your Membership Today
|
Don't miss a single issue of the
APSAC Advisor or our training and networking opportunities. Renew your with APSAC membership today!
APSAC members can receive 10% off of their membership for each new member they recruit - Recruit 10 new members and your membership is free! Contact
info@apsac.org
with the names of members you've recruited to receive your discount!
|
|
Want to bring high quality professional education to your state? The APSAC training team offers customized training to fit your needs!
Contact:
Jim Campbell
Training Coordinator for more info. CEUs available!
|
|
New Member Benefit! | The APSAC Online Library
|
|
APSAC is pleased to announce the new and improved online library! Members can now access nearly 30 years of APSAC publications online in an indexed, searchable library. This collection contains the
APSAC Advisor
,
the
APSAC Alert
,
Guidelines for Practice, position papers, and research to practice briefs. To access this extraordinary collection,
log in
as a member and click the “APSAC Library of Advisors and Alerts” button.
|
|
NEW! APSAC Advisor Available for Everyone
|
|
|
|
At the request of the Executive Committee of the National Initiative to End Corporal Punishment, APSAC is pleased to make the latest issue of the
APSAC Advisor
available to members and non-members alike.
Read here!
This issue, edited by Angelo Giardino, MD, PhD, and Christopher Greeley, MD, MS, contains articles on hot topics in child maltreatment and a special section on ending corporal punishment. Articles in this issue include:
- At Issue: Child Abuse Reporters and the Immunity Myth
- An Overview of Published Medical Research About Child Abuse and Neglect During 2006-2015
- True Evidence-Based Practices Deserve Wide Acceptance
- A National Initiative to End Corporal Punishment
- No Hit Zones: A Single Solution to Address the Most Prevalent Risk Factor in Child Abuse
- Working with Molly: A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Parents Using Corporal Punishment Because of Their Religious Beliefs
Plus our regular features, including the News from the Organization, an
APSAC Research to Practice Brief
, and a Washington Update focused on CAPTA reauthorization.
|
|
2019 Forensic Interview Clinics
|
|
APSAC is proud to announce that we will be offering three
Forensic Interview Clinics
in 2019! In addition to our dynamic 40-hour training, we will hold two two-day advanced clinics focused on enhancing the skills of experienced forensic interviewers. All 2019 Clinics are guaranteed to run, so be sure to reserve your spot today! Scholarships available for law enforcement in underserved communities –
learn more here
.
- June 18-19, 2019 – Two-day advanced clinic part of the 2019 Colloquium – Salt Lake City, UT – Registration Open
|
|
Preview the exciting APSAC Online Course!
Would you like the opportunity to preview the NY Foundling/APSAC new online course for early career professionals? This is a comprehensive online course featuring 25 national experts presenting materials on child maltreatment, including Victor Veith on the history of child maltreatment in the US, Lucy Berliner on components of evidence-based treatment, and physicians Vincent Palusci, Howard Dubowitz, and Lori Fraser on medical issues, attorneys Frank Vandervort and Kelli Hughes and more!
APSAC needs 10 professionals working in social work or related behavioral sciences to take the course and provide feedback as part of our applications for CEU’s. Arrangements will be made for volunteers to obtain social work or psychology CEU’s for free once the certification process is complete. E-mail
JCampbell@apsac.org
!
|
|
From ISPCAN and APSAC |
May Journal Club: A Meta-Analysis of the Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure in Forensic Settings
APSAC is pleased to co-sponsor The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)’s May Journal Club webinar featuring APSAC’s Outstanding Research Article of the Year. Presented by authors Sheri Madigan, Corry Azzopardi, and Rachel Eirich, this webinar will highlight their important work,
“A Meta-Analysis of the Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure in Forensic Settings.”
Friday, May 31 10:00 AM MDT/9 ET. Register for this free webinar below. After you register, you will receive an e-mail from GoToWebinar with the link to join the webinar on May 31.
|
|
New! Subscribe to the YAPer Quarterly
|
|
The Young American Professional Society on the
Abuse of Children
The YAPper Quarterly is a new publication from the Young American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (YAPSAC) offering news and resources for students and young professionals working in the field of child maltreatment. Inside, you'll find information about upcoming YAPSAC events, job, grant, and training opportunities, resources from APSAC, and much more!
YAPSAC is the division of APSAC designed to serve students and young professionals to ensure that the next generation of leaders in the field of child maltreatment have access to the multi-disciplinary information, resources, and network that APSAC offers.
|
|
Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy | Madison Mastrangelo
Congratulations
to APSAC Member Madison Mastrangelo on receiving the Sanford School of Public Policy award for Best Honors Thesis for her work on No Hit Zones, a policy to prevent corporal punishment.
Read m
ore about her work
.
|
|
News From the New York Foundling
|
|
150th Anniversary of the
New York Foundling
Save the Date | June 6-8, 2019 | New York, NY
Join the
New York Foundling in celebrating the organization's history, legacy, and continuing impact on children, adults and families. If you would like to purchase tickets to attend the upcoming celebrations, or share your Foundling story and photos, please contact the NYF at
Events@NYFoundling.org
or 212-206-4122 for more information or to RSVP.
|
|
William Randolph Hearst Program
For Social Workers, Nurses, Mental Health Counselors and Other Social Service and Health Care Providers In the Prevention of Child Maltreatment
The Hearst Program is a professional development program for social workers, graduate social welfare students, case workers, nurses, school counselors and other professionals looking to learn about the field of child maltreatment prevention. The program consists of 13 2-hour sessions, plus graduation. Applicants must register for the entire 14-week program. This program is free to APSAC members! To apply fill out the form on the last page of the
William Randolph Hearst Program Brochure and return to
Leslie Schmerler.
|
|
*
click the brochure above to read*
|
|
Resources to Inform Your Practice
|
|
May is National Foster Care Month!
- Learn more about this critical component of our child welfare system.
Read the latest news from The National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
HERE
!
Case law analysis from the ABA Center on Children and the Law: Illegal Drug Use While Pregnant is Not Child Abuse
|
|
The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
1706 E Broad St. | Columbus, OH 43203
877-402-7722 | 614-827-1321
apsac.org
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
