Zoey’s Place CAC in Hancock County has received nearly $8,000 from the Children’s Justice Act Taskforce to train law enforcement and other responders in ChildFirst protocols.
Go behind-the-scenes in the lead-up to the internal accreditation and site-review process at two Indiana CACs, one on-site and one held virtually.
Prevention programming from Comfort House moved online during the pandemic, and the team found surprising benefits.
Child First and the Zero Abuse Project have established a full document on conducting a pandemic-era forensic interview and defending it in court.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth experience abuse rates higher than heterosexual youth.
Gundersen has been instrumental in bringing programs like ChildFirst training to the world. Now, Gundersen is spinning off the National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC) and the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center (JWRC) into the independent Zero Abuse Project (ZAP).
Recognize that most children who suffer physical or sexual abuse — about 95% — do so at the hands of someone they know. It’s the neighbor, teacher, coach, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and grandparents that are abusing children.
What if instead of seeing autism as a behavioral issue, it was something different with their brain-to-body connection?
CAC legal expert coming to Indiana May 31 to discuss legal issues surrounding child advocacy work.
Within Indiana, “Accidents” is the number one killer of Hoosiers age 15-24, mostly from automobile deaths. But in second place is suicide.