Norfolk Advocates for Children (April 15-16, 2025)

April 15, 2025 to April 16, 2025

Overview

To register for this course please contact Jennifer McCaffrey -  jennifer.mccaffrey@baystatehealth.org

 

Target Audience

Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Law Enforcement, Victim Advocates, Lawyers, Child Welfare Workers, Pediatricians, Nuses, and Medical Staff

Learning Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1|Incorporate trauma informed practices when working with children and families during child abuse investigations.
2|Identify attainable goals for their MDT and individual practices in an effort to incorporate a more trauma informed response. 
3|Demonstrate improved trauma informed experiential reasoning skills.
4|Identify reasons mental health treatment is important in the CAC model.
5|Identify the symptoms of secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and burnout.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 11.50 APA American Psychological Association
    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.
  • 11.50 ASWB Continuing Education Credit(s)
  • 11.50 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
  • 11.50 NBCC
    Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBC requirements. The ACEP solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Course opens: 
04/15/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
04/15/2025 - 8:00am EDT
Event ends: 
04/16/2025 - 4:30pm EDT
Rating: 
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Faculty

Faculty
Kerri Bergendahl, MSW/LICSW
Grants Project Coordinator 1
Baystate Department of Psychiatry
Baystate Medical Center

Jessica Wozniak, PsyD
Assistant Professor
UMass Chand Medical School
Psychologist
Baystate Health

Sarah Liquorman, PsyD
Assistant Professor
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Clinical Psychologist

Nelson Colon, LCSW
Consultant for Child Advocacy Training Support

Anthony DeVincenzo, MA
Sr. Training Specialist
Northeast Regional Children's Advocacy Center

Deidre Hussey, PsyD
Assistant Professor
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Behavioral Health Clinical Supervisor
Baystate Health

Jessica Kelly, MSW, LCSW
Executive Director
Norfolk Advocates for Children

Sasha Svendsen, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
UMass Chan Medical School
Child Abuse Pediatrician, Division Chief of Child Protection
UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center

Molly Louison-Semrow
Forensic Interviewer

Name of Individual

Individual's Role in Activity

Financial Relationship Disclosure

Discussion of
Unlabeled/Unapproved
Uses of Drugs/Devices
in Presentation?

Kerri Bergendahl, MSW,/LICSWPlanner, FacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Jennifer McCaffreyPlannerNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Jessica Wozniak, PsyDPlanner, FacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Sarah Liquorman, PsyDNoFacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Nelson Colon, LCSWFacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Tony DeVincenzo, MAFacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Deidre Hussey, PsyDFacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Jessica Kelly, MSW, LCSWFacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Sasha Svendsen, MDFacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Molly Louison-SemrowFacultyNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
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

imageIn 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. A maximum of 11.50 CE credit(s) for psychologists have been granted 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. Social workers completing this course receive a maximum of 11.50 continuing education credit(s).

 

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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)
Mental Health Counselors completing this course receives a maximum of  11.50 clock hours.

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This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 11.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

 

Available Credit

  • 11.50 APA American Psychological Association
    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.
  • 11.50 ASWB Continuing Education Credit(s)
  • 11.50 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
  • 11.50 NBCC
    Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBC requirements. The ACEP solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

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