This two-day skill focused training is for caseworkers who intervene with parents after a credible outcry of abuse by a child. Through interview simulations, trainees will be able to demonstrate crisis intervention techniques, culpability assessment skills, and develop an immediate safety plan.

Caseworkers or child welfare professionals with less than three years of child welfare experience, and Juvenile probation and diversion officers.

• Understand that personal and professional expectations regarding the non-offending parent can create barriers to the development of a relationship and planning for safety of the victim.
• Understand the five types of child disclosure and how the disclosure creates loss for the NOP and the reactions the NOP has to the disclosure
• Understand the continuum or level of participation prior to the disclosure.
• Understand what needs to be accomplished in the first encounter with the NOP and ways to enhance the first parent child interaction post disclosure