The Governor's Office for Children and Families (GOCF) sponsors several trainings and events throughout the year that may be beneficial for youth, grantees, or other service providers. See below for information and registration for these trainings.
Online Trainings
Online Trainings with the National Alliance of Children's
Trust & Prevention Funds
The National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds (Alliance) is pleased to make available an online training to support implementation of the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework in multiple settings. The curriculum consists of seven courses: the introductory course, a course focused on each protective factor (each exploring one or two program strategies) and a final review and reflection course that helps the user move from knowledge to action.
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Online Trainings with Care Solutions
Through partnership with Care Solutions, Inc., GOCF has made several online trainings available to interested participants. These trainings provide CEUs free of charge to participants!
Creating Healthy Lifestyles: Balancing School-age Diets with Good Food Choices
Healthy kids eat a diet that balances the calories they burn and provides the nutrients, vitamins, and minerals they need to grow and develop. Learn to use food labels and the USDA's MyPyramid for Kids to choose the right foods every time, and get fun ideas for teaching school-age children to be aware of and responsible for their own food choices.
Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: The Gateway to Reading Success
Preschool teachers and parents are critically important in helping young children develop the skills necessary to learn to read. However, there is a core deficit that causes some young children problems in learning to read. That core deficit is in phonemic awareness. This course will provide participants with an understanding of phonemic awareness, how it develops in young children, and which phonemic awareness skills teachers should help young children acquire.
Social and Emotional Development of Preschoolers
Throughout the preschool years, children develop a skill set that makes up their social and emotional growth. They learn about themselves and their world as they take on new roles outside of their home and families. In this course we are going to explore the major social emotional developmental accomplishments of preschoolers, ages 3-5.
Mandated Reporters: Critical Links in Protecting Children in Georgia
Who is a mandated reporter? Every child care provider and many other professionals who come in contact with children are important parts of Georgia's plan to eliminate the abuse and neglect of children. In this one-hour online course, you will learn to better recognize the indicators of abuse and neglect, understand your role in responsible reporting, and identify the groups of children that may be at a higher risk of being abused or neglected.
Better Brains for Babies
This six-hour series contains four modules that cover the basics of brain development and discuss the impact of experience on the developing brain. Each module includes video and comprehensive checkpoints.
ProSolutions Training is proud to partner with Better Brains for Babies to bring you this six-hour course on early brain development. Better Brains for Babies is a Georgia-based collaboration of state and local, public and private organizations that developed to promote awareness of and education about the importance of early brain development in the healthy growth and development of infants and young children. The 2012 edition of the Better Brains for Babies curriculum has been adapted and reorganized by ProSolutions Training to be delivered in an online format with customized resources developed by ProSolutions Training.
Getting Families Engaged
Research over the last 20 years has highlighted the benefits family involvement has on children’s development and education – but how can you get families engaged? In this course, you will read about some methods and activities that will help increase family engagement.
Reading to Young Children
Reading to young children is one of the most powerful activities teachers can do to help children become readers. This training will offer information regarding the importance of reading, book selection and techniques for reading aloud.
The Basics of Effective Human Services Interviewing
The goal of human services work is to support a client's development: for instance, by building job, parenting, or life skills, or helping a client reach and maintain sobriety. Interviewing is the primary skill needed to accomplish this goal. This course enhances the skills of professionals who are new to the human services field, have not had basic interviewing instruction, or need a brush-up.
Upcoming Trainings and Events
Stewards of Children Sexual Abuse Prevention Training
The Governor's Office for Children and Families in partnership with the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy presents Darkness to Light's Stewards of Children prevention training.
The program is designed for organizations that serve youth and for individuals concerned about the safety of children. It is the only nationally distributed, research-based program proven to increase knowledge, improve attitudes, and change child protective behaviors.
For location address and registration info
Register online at:
GeorgiaCenterForChildAdvocacy.org/governor-stewards/
Contact Willa Boswell at prevention@gacfca.org
or call (678)904-2880 if you have questions.
Training Dates
Date: May 28, 2013
Time: 3pm - 6pm
Location: DeKalb Cooperative Extension
4380 Memorial Drive, Suite 200
Decatur, GA 3003
Writing a Winning Foundation Grant Proposal and Budget Training
Date: May 23, 2013
Time: 9:30am - 1:00pm
Location: Augusta Technical College
3200 Augusta Tech Drive
Augusta, GA 30906
This free training will equip attendees with tools necessary to develop a successful foundation grant proposal. The training will cover:
- How the proposal fits into the overall grant seeking process.
- What to include in a standard proposal to a foundation?
- Tips for making each section of your proposal stronger.
- What funders expect to see in your proposal and attachments?
- How do you determine reasonable costs?
- What types of expenses are considered overhead?
- What other financial documents will funders want to see?
- Tips for communicating with funders during the grant process.
Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. Grant Writing Training begins at 10:00 a.m.
Limit: 50 GOCF Grant Representatives.
To register, please email Tequila.Lamar@children.ga.gov
Trainings By Request
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Training for Mental Health Providers
Contact Katherine Peterson to request training
This training for service providers, especially child and adolescent mental health providers, is intended to increase awareness of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) and the needs of the victims. Participants in this training will gain an increased understanding about CSEC by learning how to define CSEC and CSEC victims, identifying potential CSEC victims, identifying children at risk for being sexually exploited, and identifying pathways for children to become CSEC victims. After completion of training, participants will be able to define “choice” in terms of children’s involvement in the commercial sex industry, define trauma bonds and describe how they affect victims of CSEC, identify the needs of CSEC victims, identify community resources for potential victims, identify ways that a system of care can increase the chances of identifying and successfully treating CSEC victims. Additionally, upon completion of training, participants will have learned how to identify opportunities for intervention with CSEC victims, how to identify guidelines for appropriate and effective engagement with CSEC victims, how to identify possible treatment strategies for CSEC victims, and be able to describe challenges inherent in providing services and programming to commercially sexually exploited children and youth. Trainings are offered free of charge to participants. Per approval from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Licensed Professional Counselor Association, trainings are eligible for six hours of continuing education credits for social workers and counselors practicing in Georgia upon the completion of the training evaluation. CEUs are provided free of charge to participants.
For more information or to request a training, please contact Katherine Peterson at Katherine.Peterson@children.ga.gov or call 404-656-4202.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Training for Law Enforcement Professionals
Contact Katherine Peterson to request training
This specific training is intended for professionals within the law enforcement field to raise awareness and skill in working with victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC). Police officers and law enforcement personnel will be trained on how to recognize and intervene with CSEC victims and their abusers through a curriculum that allows them to learn about applicable state and federal laws related to CSEC. Participants will also learn the CSEC risk factors, pathways to entry, how CSEC impacts victims, the prevalence of CSEC, and the best practices for investigating CSEC. Participants will be educated on the available resources in Georgia and how to connect victims with services so they receive the treatment and legal advocacy they need. Furthermore, these trainings highlight the critical role that law enforcement plays when it comes to combating CSEC, protecting victims, and bringing their abusers to justice. Trainings are offered free of charge to participants. As approved by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, P.O.S.T. Credits will be provided free of charge to participants.
For more information or to request a training, please contact Katherine Peterson at Katherine.Peterson@children.ga.gov or call 404-656-4202.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Training for Prosecutors
Contact Katherine Peterson to request training
This training for Prosecutors is targeted to raise awareness and skill in working with victims of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). This training will provide prosecutors with the tools to work CSEC cases and improve offender accountability. These specific trainings will help increase the knowledge of participants as it relates to learning the definition and scope of CSEC, improving understanding and identification of victims, identifying laws for prosecuting offenders, acquiring techniques to strengthen cases at the indictment, investigation, and trial stages, and understanding the “best interests of the child” standard as it applies to CSEC prosecutions. Participants will also learn how to bring a victim-centered case. Trainings are offered free of charge to participants. As approved by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, CLE Credits will be provided free of charge to participants.
For more information or to request a training, please contact Katherine Peterson at Katherine.Peterson@children.ga.gov or call 404-656-4202.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children CSEC 101 Workshop for General Audiences
Contact Katherine Peterson to request training
This 3-hour workshop is designed to educate and raise awareness for general audiences about Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC). This workshop will address the Who? What? When? How? and Why? questions that many individuals have regarding Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. Participants will learn truths about the victims of CSEC and how CSEC affects our communities and children. Participants will also learn more about the exploiters and buyers, which agencies in Georgia work with victims of CSEC, legal aspects of CSEC in Georgia, and what they can do in their own communities to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Trainings are offered free of charge to participants. Continuing education credits may be available upon request.
For more information or to request a training, please contact Katherine Peterson at Katherine.Peterson@children.ga.gov or call 404-656-4202.
Web-based Training Series for Georgia Healthcare Professionals on Child Sex Trafficking
This web-based training series is presented by the Governor’s Office for Children and Families and The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children. It aims to educate Georgia professionals in healthcare related fields on sex trafficking of children and teens. The series includes five individual modules which are presented via live webinars. Interested professionals may attend any webinar. The modules do not need to be completed in order; however we recommend that learners with limited knowledge of this topic complete the Introduction module prior to others in the series. Each module is individually approved for continuing education credits for Georgia medical providers, nurses, and emergency medical service personnel. Modules 1, 3, & 5 offer continuing education credits for social workers. Participants must complete the post-training evaluation for each webinar they attend in order to receive continuing education credits. All webinars are free.
For more information on these trainings, please contact Katherine Peterson at Katherine.Peterson@children.ga.gov or call 404-656-4202.
To register for these trainings, follow link below:
http://www.choa.org/csecwebinars