Professional Trainings and Resources

Our comprehensive prevention trainings are designed to educate professionals on child sexual abuse and online child sexual exploitation. Participants will leave with the tools, knowledge, and confidence they need to prevent, identify, and report child sexual abuse and online child sexual exploitation. These trainings are approved for social work CEU credits.

Our identifying and reporting child abuse and neglect trainings are designed to teach New York State mandated reporters and school personnel how to identify signs of abuse and neglect and understand their legal obligations for reporting under Social Services Law and Education Law Article 23B. These trainings are approved by the New York State Department of Education and result in a certificate of completion that can be filed with the state.

Our trauma trainings are designed to support professionals in working with children and families. Trainings cover a range of topics including: trauma, trauma-responsive care, implicit bias and working with child sexual abuse survivors. These trainings are approved for social work CEU credits.

Our wellness trainings are designed to support professionals who work with children and families to take care of themselves. Trainings cover a range of topics including: secondary traumatic stress, burn-out, coping and self-care. These trainings are approved for social work CEU credits.

Safe Touches© is an evidence-based, age-appropriate child sexual abuse prevention program designed for children in kindergarten through third grade. The Safe Touches Facilitation and Implementation Training offers schools and agencies who wish to purchase the program model and implement the Safe Touches program an in-depth training on all aspects of the program. The multi-day training will walk participants through implementation logistics, puppeteering, facilitation, fidelity monitoring and data collection. Schools and agencies will receive all of the materials needed to implement a Safe Touches program in their community, as well as training materials to train other Safe Touches facilitators at their school or agency.

The Restoring Resiliency Response (RRR)© protocol is a crisis debriefing model that was developed to specifically support child protection and other front-line staff after a critical incident, such as a child fatality. Individual or group sessions after a critical incident help to mitigate the impact of the incident and accelerate recovery. The RRR Facilitation and Implementation Training was designed to support agencies who wish to purchase the program model and implement the RRR protocol. The multi-day training will support agencies to determine their organizational readiness and walk participants through implementation logistics, facilitation, fidelity monitoring and data collection. Agencies will receive all of the materials needed to implement the RRR protocol in their agency, as well as training materials to train other RRR facilitators at their agency.

The NYSPCC can provide schools and youth serving organizations with support and guidance on any child safety issue. Working collaboratively with leadership teams and staff, we can provide expert clinical, programmatic, policy and legal consultation to help ensure children are protected and organizations safeguarded.

The NYSPCC develops handbooks and resources to support schools, child protection agencies and youth-serving organizations.