The Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center provides multi-disciplinary training to professionals whose job-related duties affect the physical and emotional protection and treatment of children. The Center utilizes graduate and postgraduate interns and serves as a training and educational model in the area of child abuse for the State of Texas and nationwide.

Please choose from the following training seminars.

Stewards of Children Facilitator Training

Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse Seminars

The Dallas Children's Advocacy Center,
in collaboration with Darkness to Light, is proud to offer a
Stewards of Children Facilitator Training.

June 24, 2008
at the Center for Community Cooperation
2900 Live Oak Street, Dallas, TX 75204.
To register for this training, please click here.

Stewards of Children is a revolutionary sexual abuse prevention training program that educates adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse, and motivates them to courageous action. The Stewards of Children program is designed for organizations and corporations that serve children and youth.

The curriculum can be used by organizations and corporations who are:

• Seeking training for staff and volunteers in the prevention of child sexual abuse.
• Wanting to make a difference in their community by educating adults about the protection of children.
• Needing to respond to insurance requirements regarding child protection.
• Wanting to enhance community training initiatives and develop potential sources of revenue.

A facilitator is a representative whom organizations send to be trained on how to implement the Stewards of Children program. This facilitator may provide the training within a specific organization and/or in the broader community.

Facilitators attend an all-day workshop. They receive:

• A Facilitator manual
• A Stewards of Children workbook
• A Stewards of Children training tape (VHS/DVD)
• A Child Protection Policies and Procedures manual
• Membership in the Facilitator ListServ
• Authorization to purchase workbooks for training
• Training evaluation tools
• Access to a Facilitator Resources password-protected area on the Darkness to Light website
• On-going support from D2L professional staff

Hotel Options
Many hotels are available in or near downtown Dallas. None are within walking distance of the training, so taxi or rental car transportation will need to be considered. Because of the small number of participants requiring hotels for this training, no room blocks have been booked. These are simply options for you to consider, based on the distance from the training:

Best Western Cityplace Inn
4150 N Central Expressway,Dallas, TX 75204-2131
1.7 miles from location of training

SpringHill Suites Dallas Downtown/West End
1907 N. Lamar St,Dallas, TX 75202
1.2 miles from location of training

The Westin City Center, Dallas
650 North Pearl Street,Dallas, TX 75201
1/2 mile from location of training

Adam's Mark Dallas
400 N. Olive Street,Dallas, TX 75201
.6 miles from location of training

Hotel Indigo DALLAS DOWNTOWN
1933 MAIN STREET,Dallas, TX 75201
.7 miles from location of training

To register for this training, please click here. For questions, please contact Ellen Magnis, Vice President of Education emagnis@dcac.org or 214-818-2638.

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Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse Seminars

“Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse” seminars are conducted for human service organizations, school counselors, nurses and teachers from throughout Dallas County. Third-year medical students, during their pediatric rotation at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, receive training on recognizing and reporting child abuse and neglect and the multi-disciplinary approach used in the Advocacy Center model.

Stewards of Children –
Training for Employees at Organizations and Corporations that Serve Children and Youth

This program is delivered by a trained facilitator for organizations and corporations that:

• Need training for staff and volunteers in the prevention of child sexual abuse.
• Want to make a difference in their community by educating adults about the protection of children.
• Need to respond to insurance requirements regarding child protection.
  Stewards of Children includes:
• An interactive workbook for each participant containing the full program curriculum
• An accompanying 1 ¼ hour VHS/DVD integrating segments of sexual abuse survivors relating their stories of violation and healing, with segments from the author of the curriculum and from professionals who interface daily with the problem of sexual abuse
• Opportunity for discussion about important issues in sexual abuse prevention and the relevance of these issues within organizations that serve children and adolescents.

After training participants will:

• Understand the facts of child sexual abuse - incidence rates and effects on individuals and society
• Understand how child sexual abuse happens
• Understand that adults are responsible for the protection of children
• Understand the importance of screening staff/volunteers who work with children and adolescents
• Understand the importance of a well conceived one-adult/one-child policy
• Have resources to react responsibly to incidents of child sexual abuse
• Understand the proactive role youth-serving organizations need to take to protect children and educate their communities about child sexual abuse

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