Professional Trainings and Resources

Our child sexual abuse prevention trainings are designed to give staff the tools, knowledge, and confidence they need to prevent, identify, and report sexual abuse and online child sexual exploitation. Approved for CEU credits.

Our identifying and reporting child abuse and neglect trainings are approved by the New York State Department of Education to teach mandated reporters and school personnel how to identify signs of abuse and neglect and understand their legal obligations for reporting under Social Service law and Education Law Article 23B. Approved for NYS Certificate of Completion.

Our clinical trainings on working with children and families cover a range of topics, including: Supporting Youth to Cope with Grief and Loss, Understanding Attachment, and Working with Child Sexual Abuse Survivors and Their Families. Approved for CEU credits.

Our clinical trainings on the self-care and overall wellness of youth-serving professionals, include Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress and Coping with Grief and Loss. Approved for 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 Implementation and Facilitation Training offers agencies who wish to purchase the program model and implement the Safe Touches program an in-depth training on all aspects of implementation and facilitation. The multi-day trainings will walk participants through implementation logistics, puppeteering, facilitation, and engagement.

The Restoring Resiliency Response (RRR)© protocol was developed to specifically support child protection and other front-line staff to mitigate the impact of a critical incident and accelerate recovery through individual or group debriefing sessions. The RRR Implementation and Facilitation Training was designed to support agencies who wish to purchase the program model and implement the RRR Protocol. The multi-day training discusses programmatic elements, such as obtaining buy-in, outreach and promotion, scheduling and staffing, supervision and training, and monitoring and evaluation.

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.