Upcoming Child Abuse Prevention Training in Santa Rosa California!

Understanding and Responding to the Sexual Behaviors of Children

Who:  Parents, Caregivers and professionals working with children.

When:  Monday March 24^th

Registration begins at 6:15pm. Event Time is 6:30-8pm.

Where: California Parenting Institute, 3642 Standish Rd, Santa Rosa, CA . Conference room # 128.

Why: To raise community awareness about child abuse prevention.

To Register: Call Kate Robey, MFT at 585-6108 x1229 for more info or email:  kater@calparents.org     

“Understanding & Responding to the Sexual Behaviors of Children” is an interactive workshop designed for parents, early education and care professionals and others who have contact with children and/or their families.

Attendees will increase their knowledge & skills to:

• Identify “developmentally expected” sexual behaviors of children and youth; 
• Distinguish developmentally expected behaviors from those that might be inappropriate, coercive, abusive or illegal; 
• Respond to all sexual behaviors in ways that promote healthy development of children and that support bystanders who maybe affected.  

Several scenarios are presented describing sexual behaviors of children that participants might witness in their homes, in day care settings, schools and other youth-serving organizations. Small group discussions give participants an opportunity to apply their new knowledge about how to assess and respond to these behaviors in ways that model good communication, empathy and accountability. These responses can help build protective factors in children so that their risks to be victimized or to perpetrate sexual abuse can be reduced.

The Enough Abuse Campaign is a comprehensive state and community mobilization initiative working to build a movement of concerned citizens educated about child sexual abuse and engaged in direct actions to prevent it. The Campaign’s mission is to prevent adults from sexually abusing children today, and to promote the healthy development of children and youth so as to reduce sexually abusive behaviors from occurring in the future.

This presentation is based on concepts developed by Gail Ryan of the Kempe Children’s Center in Colorado.