Training Opportunities

April 10
10 a.m. -noon

Preventing Child Abuse in Childcare Setting/ Self Care and Burnout Prevention
Hosted by the Child Advocacy Center.This 2-hour training will assist childcare providers in being able to self-identify challenges in the childcare setting that could increase and decrease the risk of child abuse in the childcare setting.  Burnout is a real risk to the individual, childcare setting, and to children.

Coldwell Banker MM Parrish Realty
5830 NW 39^th Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32606

April 24
10-11:30 a.m.

Human Trafficking 101
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 1.5-hour training will provide definitions for the different types of human trafficking, dynamics that make human trafficking possible, risk factors and needs of victims, local trends and cases of human trafficking, identification of prevention strategies for youth, parents, and providers and resources available for victims and prevention. 

Coldwell Banker MM Parrish Realty
5830 NW 39^th Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32606

April 30

10:30-11:30 a.m.

May 1

10:00-11:00 a.m.

LanguageLine

Recording

May 16
10-11:30 a.m.

Child Abuse Reporting
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 1.5-hour training will identify signs and symptoms of child abuse.  Deconstruct and dispel myths of the child protection system.  Provide child abuse reporting statutes, instructions how to most effectively report child abuse and neglect, and local resources for child victims and their families.

Coldwell Banker MM Parrish Realty
5830 NW 39^th Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32606

May 30
10 a.m. - noon

Understanding Trauma
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 2-hour training will explore the difference between acute and complex trauma, history of childhood trauma, trauma and its impact on brain development, trauma responses, polyvagal theory, attachment trauma, community responses, and felt safety.

Coldwell Banker MM Parrish Realty
5830 NW 39^th Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32606

June 10 & 11

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Restorative Justice Practices
Hosted by River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. The general purpose of the restorative practices 14-hour training is to provide youth programs and providers with an overview of restorative practices and how to implement them as a means of addressing behavior with non-punitive discipline strategies that empower young people and build community. 

Normal Childhood Sexual Development vs Problematic Sexual Behavior
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 2-hour training will provide understanding of childhood sexual development, explaining the difference between sexual reactivity, problematic sexual behavior, and offending behavior, community response to sexual behaviors, explain risk factors (high risk vs low risk and evidenced based intervention).

Internet Safety for Children and Caregivers
Hosted by Child Advocacy Center. This 2-hour training will identify internet safety issues affecting children, prevention strategies to help educate children about dangers on the internet, online resources, and the role of caregivers in keeping children safe on the internet. The internet is a reality for children, and the adults caring for them.  Participants will learn about programs and applications that place children at risk, how to teach children about internet safety, monitoring options, and local/state/federal resources to keep children safer on the internet.

August 5 & 6

9 a.m.-5 p.m.