Training
The CAC’s goal is to empower community members and professionals with information, knowledge, and tools to positively impact children and families who have experienced abuse.
Our trainings focus on the following:
- Prevention: Increasing awareness and understanding of child abuse and fostering safety;
- Intervention: Providing information on recognizing the signs, responding to disclosure, reporting abuse, and the multidisciplinary team response;
- Treatment & Therapy: Increasing skills and knowledge for professionals who are helping victims recover and heal.
Contact us for more information.
Trainings we offer include:
Internet Safety
- Online Safety- We offer trainings to all ages, including parents. This includes
Project Selfie, a prevention curriculum for grades 7-12. - CSEC 101 (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children)- What it is, how to
avoid it, and how to navigate the process when something has happened.
Trainings are offered for kids and parents.
Prevention
- Body Safety- Geared toward our younger school aged kids. Lessons on body safety and consent for grades K-3.
- Keeping Kids Safe- Training for school staff, and a training for parents. This training ranges from 1.5-2 hours and is a child sexual abuse prevention 101 option.
- Healthy Relationships/Consent training- Lessons for students of all ages, we use Speak Up Be Safe from ChildHelp for K-12, and additionally we use Power Up Speak Out for 7th and 8th graders.
Response
- Mandated Reporting
- Problematic Sexual Behavior in Children- Learn what is developmentally appropriate and what to do if a behavior is not.
- Recognizing and Responding to Child Abuse- What are the signs and what do you do if you suspect a child is being abused?
Trauma
- Handle With Care- Training for teachers and school staff on the function of Handle With Care and what to do when a notification is received.
- Trauma Informed Classrooms- This two hour training focuses on tangible ways that teachers can make their classrooms more trauma informed, and learn to switch their mindset to be more trauma sensitive
- Bounce Back- An elementary based program for children who have experienced a traumatic event and are exhibiting trauma stress symptoms
24 Hour Hotline:
(800) 792-5200
In Hampshire County, call:
413-775-5000
(Amherst, Chesterfield, Cummington,
Easthampton, Goshen, Hadley,
Hatfield, Middlefield, Northampton, Pelham, Plainfield,
Westhampton, Williamsburg, Worthington)
413-493-2600
(Huntington, Southampton)
413-205-0500
(Belchertown, Granby, South Hadley, Ware)