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Forward2025 Child Advocacy Training and Support Center MDT Advanced Training
Overview
The Child Advocacy Training and Support (CATS) Center is a national training center designed to connect Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) multidisciplinary teams and their associated mental health providers with trauma-focused, evidence-based training, highlighting National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) curriculum and trainers. The CATS Center’s MDT training agenda includes: Foundations for OutReach through Experiential Child Advocacy Studies Training (FORECAST), Secondary Traumatic Stress, and MDT Implementation Planning. CATS Center trainings are designed to meet the National Children’s Alliance Standards for Accreditation.
Target Audience
Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Law Enforcement, Victim Advocates, Lawyers, Child Welfare Workers, Pediatricians, Nuses, and Medical Staff
Learning Objectives
- Explore tools and practical steps to incorporate trauma informed practices when working with children and families during child abuse investigations.
- Identify attainable goals for their MDT and individual practices in an effort to incorporate a more trauma informed response.
- Discuss the available resources to continue their efforts to establish a more trauma informed approach.
- Participants will demonstrate improved trauma informed experiential reasoning skills
- Participants will be able to identify reasons mental health treatment is important in the CAC model
- Identify the symptoms of burnout and how they are explained as responses to threat.
- Describe how the workplace setting may exacerbate or improve burnout symptoms.
- Formulate a strategy based on harnessing effective stress responses at an individual and institutional level to prevent burnout and promote vitality
Faculty
Planners
Jessica Wozniak, PsyD.
Assistant Professor
UMass Chan Medial School
Psychologist
Baystate Health
Kerri Bergendahl, MSW/LICSW
Grants Project Coordinator 1
Baystate Department of Psychiatry
Baystate Medical Center
Leah Berkowitz-Gosselin, MSW/LICSW
Grants Project Coordinator
Baystate Medical Center
Jennifer McCaffrey, MPH
Project Specialist/Behavioral Health Clinician II
Baystate Health
Name of Individual | Individual's Role in Activity | Financial Relationship Disclosure | Discussion of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Wozniak, PsyD | Planner, Instructor | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Kerri Bergendahl, LICSW | Planner, Instructor | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Leah Berkowitz-Gosselin, MSW/LICSW | Planner | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Jennifer McCaffrey, MPH | Planner | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Faculty Disclosure
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.
None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Accreditation
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Psychologists
Baystate Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Depending on the specific session, psychologists have been awarded varying amounts of continuing education credits for this educational activity.
Social Workers (ASWB)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Baystate Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses are approved under this program. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this course. Depending on the specific session, social workers have been awarded varying amounts of continuing education credits for this educational activity.
Mental Health Counselors
Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. (ACEP #5684)
Depending on the specific session, mental health counselors have been awarded varying amounts of continuing education credits for this educational activity..
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team. and learners will receive Depending on the specific session, learners have been awarded varying amounts of Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.