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AMBER Alert: Activate or Don't Activate
AMBER Alert: Activate or Don't Activate
Webinar (Upcoming) | Mar 26, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT

Join us for an interactive class designed for AMBER Alert coordinators and emergency management personnel where participants engage with realistic missing child scenarios. Collaborate to assess whether the facts support activation, making critical decisions as situations evolve dynamically to mirror real-world challenges. This popular course is updated annually to reflect current cases, trends, and activations, fostering in-depth discussions that enhance decision-making skills and improve response strategies for locating missing children.

Investing in Our Guardians: Wellness Strategies for First Responders
Investing in Our Guardians: Wellness Strategies for First Responders
Webinar (Upcoming) | Mar 26, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT

For all the various first responders engaged in public safety [police, firefighters, paramedics, dispatchers, social workers, and corrections staff], serving others often becomes the priority, leaving your own well-being vulnerable. This presentation focuses on equipping you, the battle-worn, casework-buried professionals on the frontlines, with practical tools and strategies to prioritize your physical, emotional, and relational health. Join us in this session – which will include humor and case examples - to invest in your most valuable asset – yourself. By focusing on improving yourself, you can help ensure that you continue to make a positive impact on the lives of children and families – including your own.

Verbal De-escalation and Intervention
Verbal De-escalation and Intervention
Live Online Instructor Led / Classroom

This training course provides participants with practical verbal de-escalation techniques to diffuse conflicts and reduce the potential for violence. Participants will gain the skills needed to recognize the factors that contribute to anger and violence in the workplace, identify behaviors and warning signs of anger and conflict, and recognize individuals in crisis. The course emphasizes the importance of safety considerations during de-escalation and provides verbal and non-verbal communication techniques essential for effective conflict resolution. Participants will leave this training equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively de-escalate conflicts, maintain safety, and foster a more harmonious workplace.

CST Forensic Interview Training (CST FIT)
CST Forensic Interview Training (CST FIT)
Live Online Instructor Led

This is an advanced course. Please make sure you meet the prerequisites before registering. Develop the skills and techniques to conduct developmentally appropriate forensic interviews with victims of child sex trafficking. Learn the differences between interviewing children in child abuse cases and interviewing child sex trafficking victims. Review victim-centered interview methodology with special emphasis given to understanding the factors contributing to child sex trafficking victimization and the impact on development and effects of trauma. Learn to gather information regarding the use of technology in the child sex trafficking business model and the multitude of crimes that traffickers commit, including the use of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Initial Response Strategies and Tactics When Responding to Missing Children Incidents
Initial Response Strategies and Tactics When Responding to Missing Children Incidents
Classroom / Live Online Instructor Led

In the initial response to endangered missing or child abduction incidents, accurate and timely situational assessments and immediate resource deployment are critical. During this training, first responders will gain knowledge of the investigative activities that occur during an endangered missing or child abduction investigation, and how their actions influence the short- and long-term response of law enforcement. Learn the impact the missing and or abducted child incident has on the family and how this can impact your response. Examine the critical and necessary first steps for first responders, initial supervisory, and investigative response. Gain best practices strategies for search and canvass implementation.

Child Sex Trafficking for First Responders
Child Sex Trafficking for First Responders
Classroom

Child Sex Trafficking (CST) is a crime that is hidden yet in plain sight. First responders are often the first system members to make contact with a CST victim. A CST victim has been heavily groomed for system contact, is fearful of their trafficker, and often not forthcoming about their exploitive situation. Deconstruct the crime of CST and identify common scenarios in which you may come in contact with a CST victim. Discover victim-centered contact practices you can implement which are specific to CST victims. Recognize how to secure vital evidence which may only be available during your initial contact with the victim. Practice group exercises and develop contact and response plans to common scenarios you may encounter.

Presenting Evidence in Child Forensic Interviews
Presenting Evidence in Child Forensic Interviews
Live Online Instructor Led / Classroom

Explore how different types of evidence can be used in forensic interviews of children in abuse, witnessing violence and exploitation cases. Learn how to present different types of evidence in the context of a child-centered, trauma-informed, and legally defendable forensic interview approach. Discuss the implications of presenting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Practice techniques and develop skills to present different types of evidence in child forensic interviews.

Following the Evidence in Child Abuse and Child Exploitation Cases
Following the Evidence in Child Abuse and Child Exploitation Cases
Live Online Instructor Led

Examine the importance of multidisciplinary team (MDT) case coordination and evidence corroboration in the investigation of child abuse cases. Various members of the Multidisciplinary Team, such as law enforcement, child protective services, and forensic interviewers may gather different or differing information. Learn how to evaluate evidentiary findings through crime scene images, interviews and case studies. Understand multidisciplinary team members' roles and responsibilities for protecting child victims and prosecuting offenders. Focus on offenders’ use of technology, including the use of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in grooming and manipulation. Discuss a variety of technology that can be used by investigators.

Southern Border: Cross Border Child Abduction Investigations
Southern Border: Cross Border Child Abduction Investigations
Webinar (Upcoming) | Apr 9, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT

Every year, children are unlawfully taken from the United States into Mexico, leaving behind devastated families and launching complex international investigations. This webinar will identify critical steps in the law enforcement response to these cases. Through case studies examine the initial investigative response, cross-border coordination, and identify the key actions needed to navigate both U.S. and Mexican legal systems. Also, analyze Mexico's investigative process, compare it with U.S. procedures, and evaluate strategies to strengthen recovery efforts.

Investigative Strategies for Child Abduction Cases
Investigative Strategies for Child Abduction Cases
Classroom / Live Online Instructor Led

Understand, recognize, and investigate cases involving missing and abducted children. Determine scope and scale issues and how to manage a missing or abducted child case. Explore crime scene evidence collection and processing, profiling suspects, and legal issues, including search warrants and interrogation related to a missing or abducted child.

 
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