2026 – November 4 – MDT Facilitator’s Toolkit
November 4 @ 10:00 am – 1:30 pm
Training Overview
Duration: 4 hours, 10am – 2pm
Primary Focus: Equipping Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) staff and partners with the practical toolkits, facilitation skills, and group dynamic strategies required to manage an effective multidisciplinary team.
Core Topics Covered: Building a shared team model and fostering cross-agency trust. Managing operational workflows, conflict resolution, and case review facilitation. Meeting National Children’s Alliance (NCA) standards for team collaboration and accredited communication.
Facilitator Bios:
Amber Bloss
Amber Bloss is a Forensic Interviewer, Trainer, and Multidisciplinary Team Facilitator at First Witness Child Advocacy Center where she conducts interviews, trains professionals around the world, and leads their multidisciplinary team through research discussions, team bonding, and intentional collaboration of services. Amber graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth and holds a bachelor’s degree in both Criminology and Sociology with a minor in Psychology. She finds passion in training professionals to notice the little things like body language, mannerisms, vocal expressions, and facial cues. Amber ties this into teaching professionals to recognize disabilities in children and adapt their practices to fit the best interest of the child. Her training style includes a mix of applicable research and participant discussion to achieve practical learning. Amber is always looking to have new discussions which prompt connection and collaboration among professionals to keep their passions burning in this field.
Kaylee Grunseth
Kaylee works as a Senior Forensic Interviewer, Trainer, Multidisciplinary (MDT) Facilitator, and Cultural Equity Specialist at First Witness. She focuses her work and training development on serving different populations and cultures, analyzing how outside factors impact child abuse, and the history of the field. Kaylee received a bachelor’s degree in biology, society, and the environment with minors in sustainability studies and Spanish studies from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. She utilizes her background in science to help guide her work and develop trainings. Throughout her life and career, she has worked with children and other vulnerable populations in a variety of roles. Kaylee believes training should be educational, conversational, interdisciplinary, and interactive to achieve meaningful and insightful learning (and sometimes adds a dash of dark humor too). She loves utilizing research findings along with anecdotes from her work to paint a full picture of the topic at hand. Kaylee enjoys building relationships with her trainees and learning from them too!
