Child Protection Webinars
Child abuse, neglect and exploitation are more common than you may think. In the United States, at least 1 in 7 children have experienced child abuse or neglect in the past year. In the state of Georgia, there are more than 9,000 confirmed victims of child abuse each year and over 700 victims of child sex trafficking.
In this webinar series, The Stephanie V. Blank Center invites experts in a variety of fields—as well as other professionals, caregivers and adults who have a vested interest in ensuring children experience safe, stable, nurturing relationships—to discuss the role adults play in preventing child maltreatment.
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Who should participate in the child protection webinar series?
While certain webinars may cater to a specific field or audience, such as healthcare or social work, all webinars are applicable to a variety of audiences, including parents and other caregivers.
The Child Protection webinar series aims to:
- Focus on addressing the underlying issues that lead to child abuse, neglect or exploitation.
- Provide education on building safe, stable, and nurturing relationships and environments.
- Teach professionals and caregivers to identify areas where adults can protect and improve the lives of children, with the ultimate goal of helping prevent child maltreatment.
Why participate in the child protection webinar series?
In addition to learning strategies to prevent child maltreatment and make safe, stable, and nurturing environments possible for all children for all children, participants in our 1.5-hour trainings will also receive:
- Certificate of Attendance or Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
- 1.5 NCPD credit for nurses
- 1.5 CME credit for MD/DOs, PA/NPs
- 1.5 core credit for social work, LPC and LMFT
- 2.0 POST credits for law enforcement
- Resources that participants can share with families and staff members
Available child protection webinars
Please be sure to read webinar descriptions carefully and use personal discretion when choosing webinar topics, as certain topics may be difficult for some viewers.
Register for a webinarDecember 2024
The Fundamentals of Child Sex Trafficking
Tuesday, Dec. 17, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Traci Hurley, CFLE
This module serves as a foundation to understand the complex issue of child sex trafficking. Topics covered include basic statistics on the issue, pathways to entry, identification of victims, and prevention strategies. This webinar is ideal for the participant who is new to the issue but can be beneficial to anyone with an interest in making a difference in the lives of CSEC victims.
January 2025
A Soft Place to Land: Compassionate Caregiving for Survivors of CSEC
Tuesday, Jan. 28, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Naeshia McDowell, MPH
Regardless of the role that you play in the life of a CSEC survivor, you can provide compassionate, trauma-informed care to that young person. Whether you have minutes, days, months or years with youth, this webinar will equip youth-serving professionals with research-backed tools and best practices to enhance your caregiving capacity. By the end of this module, you will understand that if trauma happens within relationships, so can healing. You can be one of many safe, supportive adults CSEC survivors encounter along their healing journey.
February 2025
Having Difficult Conversations with Children: Healthy Relationships
Tuesday, Feb. 11, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Traci Hurley, CFLE, and Anne Huegel, M.Ed.
A large component of preventing child exploitation and abuse, is helping youth identify vulnerabilities, build safety plans, and understand the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationship characteristics. In this presentation, we will discuss how to navigate these conversations with teens and tweens. Participants will also receive strategies to use when communicating how important it is for youth to recognize the seriousness of red flags in all relationship types.
March 2025
Hidden Victims of Sex Trafficking and Exploitation
Tuesday, March 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Angie Boy, DrPH
Sex trafficking and exploitation may get attention in the media, but it is still a hidden crime. This is especially true for groups of victims like boys, LGBTQ+ victims and international victims. In this webinar, you will learn about risk factors that are unique to these groups, victimization statistics, and how service and prevention strategies must differ to meet the needs of these groups.
April 2025
Providing Quality Education Early in Life
Tuesday, April 8, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Anne Huegel, M.Ed.
Join this webinar to learn about the connections between quality, early childhood education and children experiencing safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. This webinar will explore how parent engagement in educational settings can enhance parenting practices, parental education, and attitudes and family involvement in children’s education. Those in educational settings can also help encourage social support and provide access to community resources that parents and caregivers may be unaware of.
School’s Out, Summer Safety Is In
Tuesday, April 22, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Amanda Batlle, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC, NPD-BC; Traci Hurley, CFLE; and Anne Huegel, M.Ed.
Join the Child Protection and Injury and Illness Prevention teams at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to discuss common summer safety topics. Following the webinar, participants will have an increased knowledge of how to keep youth safe during summer break, prevent unintentional summer injuries and treat an injury. Participants will also be able to identify one personal practice change to help prevent summer injuries and keep youth safe.
May 2025
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health in Child Protection
Tuesday, May 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Ruwaydah Hasan, MD, and Nancy Larson, DNP
This presentation will cover basic principles of infant and early childhood mental health as it relates to public health and clinical landscapes. Several state and national organizations advocate for the incorporation of these principles into child advocacy as best practice. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has recently expanded its behavioral mental health program to provide mental health services to these very young patients.
Mimickers of Child Abuse: Cutaneous and Genital Findings
Tuesday, May 20, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Tim Chang, MD, and Keely Iannelli, MD
This webinar will focus on cutaneous and genital medical pathologies or normal variants that can be mistaken for child physical or sexual abuse. The distinction and identification of these "mimickers" are important to ensure proper medical management and to prevent unnecessary burdens to a family and the healthcare system. By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to identify cutaneous pathologies mimicking child physical abuse, identify genital pathologies mimicking child sexual abuse, and discuss the differences and distinguishing attributes separating the mimickers from abuse. (Note: This presentation contains images of child abuse. Use personal discretion when registering for medically-based trainings.
June 2025
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse
Tuesday, June 17, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Angie Boy, DrPH
Abuse often occurs in a multi-generational cycle; parents have themselves been abused and have not been provided interventions to help break the cycle. In this webinar, Dr. Angie Boy will discuss the research as it pertains to the intergenerational cycle of abuse and will highlight how community organizations can work with families to break the cycle of abuse.
July 2025
Having Difficult Conversations with Children: Body Safety
Tuesday, July 15, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Traci Hurley, CFLE, and Anne Huegel, M.Ed.
Join this webinar to learn about strategies adults can use when discussing hard topics with youth, such as child sexual abuse, body safety and consent. Participants will learn how strategies—like active listening, reframing, using open-ended questions or reading—can help adults cultivate meaningful and productive conversations.
The Medical Evaluation of Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
Tuesday, July 22, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Martha B. Dodd, DNP, FNP-BC, SANE-A, SANE-P
This module focuses on the role of medical providers in the evaluation and treatment of victims of child sex trafficking. Participants will learn about victim identification, how to properly gather information from the victim, how to conduct the medical exam, how to provide appropriate testing and treatment, and what referrals can made on behalf of the victim.
August 2025
Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse in Georgia
Tuesday, Aug. 19, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Traci Hurley, CFLE
This webinar will focus on how to recognize risk factors or signs that physical and sexual abuse, neglect, child endangerment, and sexual exploitation may be occurring. You will also learn about the basics of the mandated reporting laws relating to child abuse in Georgia, including changes to the mandated reporting statue that took place in 2022. We will also discuss policies and procedures related to making a report of suspected child abuse.
October 2025
Introduction to Keeping Children Safe in a Digital World
Tuesday, Oct. 7, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Traci Hurley, CFLE
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the types of technology children use, how they use them, and simple ways to make them safer. By the end of this session, participants will be able to recognize at least four social media apps frequented by kids and teens, define online harassment and digital citizenship, and identify steps adults can take to protect children from online risks.
Deep Dive: Keeping Children Safe in a Digital World
Tuesday, Oct. 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Traci Hurley, CFLE
Technology can be a wonderful thing, but sometimes the benefits come at a cost. The internet can expose youth to some scary stuff, including inappropriate content and online predators. Keeping youth safe online is critical, and this presentation will help take out some of the guesswork. The goal of this presentation is to equip adults with the appropriate tools to help support youth and keep them safe while online. By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to define the stages of online grooming and exploitation, identify at least two vulnerabilities unique to youth using technology, and list four resources adults can use to educate caregivers and youth.
Drug-Endangered Children
Tuesday, Oct. 21, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Keely Iannelli, MD
This presentation is designed to educate those who are confronted with drug-endangered children on the severity of children being exposed to caregiver drug use, to improve understanding of how to interpret different drug test results, and to discuss when to consider neglect and the consequences of neglect.
November 2025
Lean On Me: Creating a Culture of Family Support
Tuesday, Nov. 4, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Jyll Walsh, DrPH, and Kimberly Stewart-Lucas
While it is important for mandated reporters to understand their role in recognizing and reporting abuse, expanding their scope to mandated supporter empowers them to be proactive in their response against child abuse and neglect. The concept of mandated supporters replaces family surveillance with a variety of supportive responses to bolster and nurture family well-being. This presentation will help participants better understand strategies to connect families to resources and support to reduce “family overwhelm” and prevent child abuse and neglect.
Medical Child Neglect
Tuesday, Nov. 11, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Emmanuel Peña, DO, FAAP
Identifying opportunities to prevent medical neglect and supporting caregivers when there are risk factors for medical neglect can be two of the most important interventions in caring for all aspects of a child’s health. This lecture will delve into how to assess cases in which medical neglect is being considered and how to identify patient, medical, caregiver and environmental risk factors for medical neglect. The information will be delivered through various cases highlighting the complexities often encountered in medical neglect assessments and how early detection can keep families together.
December 2025
Digital Gifts: Tools vs. Toys
Tuesday, Dec. 9, from noon to 1:30 p.m. | Traci Hurley, CFLE
Video games may be toys, and Chromebooks may be tools, but both require safety. This holiday season, we want to give the gift of protection to those who are looking to give a digital gift to children. This webinar focuses on the importance of keeping children safe in a digital world and how to prevent dangerous encounters online.
On-demand child sex trafficking webinars
If you’d prefer to participate in our webinar series on your own time, you can register for these on-demand webinars:
- The Medical Evaluation of Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
- The Fundamentals of Child Sex Trafficking
Continuing Education
Physician Education Statement:
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Children's designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing Education Statement:
This nursing continuing professional development activity is provided by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is an approved provider with distinction of nursing continuing professional development by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours: 1.5 (per individual activity/topic)
Disclosures
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta planning committee members and content experts have no relevant financial relationship to declare. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta did not receive commercial support for this continuing education activity.
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