Child Protection Level 2 Training

Summary:

Participants will deepen their understanding of offender behavior and conditions that enable institutional abuse and misconduct.  Teams will complete audits and development of supplemental policies and community outreach planning.  Case oriented delivery provides opportunities for evaluation and extended practice of the ITFCP allegation protocol elements, including drafting of crisis communications.  Topics covered by multidisciplinary team include peer abuse response, prevention of online sexual abuse, working with parents, crisis communications, chain of custody considerations for digital evidence collection and evaluation of self-produced sexual images.  This training provides structured planning time based on policy audits and content presented.  Online tools, such as polling, and breakout rooms will enable participant interaction and exchange by role and country location.  Support and resources for whole staff training will be provided through the training the trainer approach.

Outcomes:

• Develop key supplemental policies
• Recognize offender behavior that creates situational vulnerability
• Assess effectiveness of current policies by implementing allegation protocol case scenarios
• Identify key resources, tools and staff training activities
• Examine role of bias and other error multipliers
• Evaluation of standards of proof and community reconciliation and recovery actions
• Identify the difference between vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress
• Evaluate your environmental and situational vulnerabilities
• Understand the dynamics and issues surrounding peer on peer abuse

Advance prep/prerequisites:

Level II is for child protection response teams who have established child protection programs and have completed level I or a foundation level training.  Because the planning time is collaborative, schools are encouraged to send multiple team members to workshop.