Training
In-Person and Online Training/Resources
The RCACs provide training and support for state chapters, children’s advocacy centers, and multidisciplinary team professionals working on child abuse cases throughout the country. The RCACs provide live training, virtual training, peer forums, and self-paced learning opportunities. Please click on your region to see local offerings or the National Training/forums for opportunities open to professionals across the country.
Don’t see a training you need? Contact your region about customized training.
Northeast Region: Contact Katelyn Waltimyer
Midwest Region: Contact Kia Kehrer
Southern Region: Contact Lauren Tanner
Western Region: Contact Lana Lo
Midwest Trainings
- EduNet Webinars
- Online Course Catalog - link to: https://www.mrcac.org/catalog/
- Medical Training Academy
- Medical Training Academy: PSANE Examiner Course
- Medical Aspects of Child Abuse for the MDT
- Core Concepts for Team Facilitation
- Core Concepts for Team Facilitation Course + Community Discussions
- Team Facilitator Community Consult Circles
- Peer Review (Medical, SANE, Spanish, Disabilities, Forensic Interview)
- Forensic Interview Journal Club
- Medical Training Academy Programs
- Medical Training Academy
- Medical Training Academy: Pediatric/Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Course
- Medical Preceptorship
- myCasereview
- myQIportal –Physical Abuse
- myQIportal Sexual Abuse for Board Certified Child Abuse Pediatricians
- myQIportal Sexual Abuse for Medical Providers
- Monthly E-newsletter: Click here to sign up
Northeast Trainings
- Leadership, Exchange, and Coaching (LEC)
- Team Facilitator 2.0*
- Introduction to Team Facilitation
- Multidisciplinary Team Training*
- Secondary Traumatic Stress: The Impact of Working in the Child Abuse Field
- NCAC Basic Forensic Interviewer Training*
- NCAC Advanced Forensic Interview Training*
- Team Talk Podcast
- Monthly E-newsletter: Click here to sign up
Additional training available by request.
Southern Trainings
- Facilitative Leadership Learning Collaborative*
- Board of Directors Blueprint (self-paced training)
- Cultivating the Role of Team Facilitator (self-paced training)
- Reflect. Refuel. Reset. Series on Secondary Traumatic Stress (self-paced training)
- The SRCAC Exchange Podcast
- SRCAC YouTube page
- Monthly E-newsletter: contact Lauren Tanner to sign up
Additional training available by request.
Western Trainings
- Building Resilient Teams*
- Core Concepts for Team Facilitation: Course + Community
- Mental Health Peer Consultation Forums
- Mental Health Peer Discussion Groups for CAC Leadership*
- Telemental Health Resource Center
- Online Webinars
- The Science of Tele-Mental Health
- Delivering TF-CBT via Tele-Mental Health
- Tele-Mental Health: The Clinician’s Perspective
- The Challenges of Tele-Mental Health: Technology & Licensure
- Monthly Roundup Communications: Click here to sign up
Additional training available by request.
National Trainings
- The Advocate’s Role in the Multidisciplinary Response to Child Abuse
- Child Abuse Medical Preceptorship
- Fundamentals of Team Facilitation
- Mental Health Peer Consultation Forums
- MDT Facilitator Peer Forums
- Moving Beyond: A Recorded Series of Special Topics in Victim Advocacy
- Multidisciplinary Team Facilitator Training Guide
*Trainings with an asterisk (*) are regional trainings: normally these trainings are only open to attendees within the regions, but if more space is available the training may be opened to CACs nationally.
In-Person Training
Trainings with an asterisk (*) are regional trainings: normally these trainings are only open to attendees within the regions, but if more space is available the training may be opened to CACs nationally.
Northeast Regional
- Leadership, Exchange and Coaching Project (LEC)
- Team Facilitator 2.0*
- Introduction to Team Facilitation
- Multidisciplinary Team Training*
- Vicarious Trauma and Building Resiliency for Child Abuse Professionals*
- NCAC Basic Forensic Interviewer Training*
- NCAC Advanced Forensic Interview Training*
- Team Talk Podcast
- The Advocate’s Role in the Multidisciplinary Response to Child Abuse
Southern Regional
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- TF-CBT: Advanced Topics*
- Facilitative Leadership Learning Collaborative*
Western Regional
- Building Resilient Teams*
- Mental Health Peer Consultation Forums – These forums are open to eligible clinicians nationally.
- Mental Health Peer Discussion Groups for CAC Leadership*
- MDT Facilitator Peer Forums – These forums are open to MDT Facilitators nationally.
- The Advocate’s Role in the Multidisciplinary Response to Child Abuse – This training is open to Victim Advocates nationally.
Training Available by Request
- Building and Sustaining a Well-Functioning Multidisciplinary Team*
- Core Concepts for Team Facilitation: Course + Community*
- Customized Training and Technical Assistance to Tribes and CACs Serving American Indian/Alaska Native Children and Youth*
- Reduced-Cost TF-CBT Training for Clinicians Serving Rural Communities*
- Trauma-Informed Care and Practice in a CAC Setting*
Don’t see a training you need? Contact your region about customized training.
Northeast Region: Contact Katelyn Waltimyer
Southern Region: Visit their website
Western Region: Contact Lana Lo
Online Training and Resources
Midwest Regional
- EduNet 2019 Webinars
- EduNet Archived Webinars
- Online Course Catalog
- Medical Training Academy
- Medical Training Academy: PSANE Examiner Course
- Medical Aspects of Child Abuse for the MDT
- Peer Review
- Forensic Interview Journal Club
- Medical Training Academy Programs
- Monthly E-newsletter: Click here to sign up
Northeast Regional
- Team Talk Podcast
- Monthly E-newsletter: Click here to sign up
Southern Regional
- Board of Directors Blueprint (self-paced training)
- Cultivating the Role of Team Facilitator (self-paced training)
- Reflect. Refuel. Reset. Series on Secondary Traumatic Stress (self-paced training)
- Monthly E-newsletter: contact Lauren Tanner to sign up
Western Regional
- Telemental Health Resource Center
- Online Webinars
- The Science of Tele-Mental Health
- Delivering TF-CBT via Tele-Mental Health
- Tele-Mental Health: The Clinician’s Perspective
- The Challenges of Tele-Mental Health: Technology & Licensure
- Monthly E-newsletter: Click here to sign up