Prevention $ense January 17, 2017

Please join CTF and other community, national and statewide prevention advocates, practitioners and parents for this year’s CTF State Conference on Child Abuse/Neglect Prevention, March 23 & 24, 2017, Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City. This year’s conference will focus on resilience, engaging parent leaders, building protective factors, and much, much more!

Conference headliners include:

• Suzanne Greenberg, President & CEO of Child Abuse & Neglect Council of Saginaw County Michigan;
• David Schramm, Ph.D., Family Life Specialist & Assistant Professor at Utah State University, Logan, Utah;
• D.J. ‘Eagle Bear’ Vanas, Motivational Storyteller & Leadership Expert, Colorado Springs, Colorado;
• Carolyn Abdullah, FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community Based Child Abuse Prevention, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Registration is only $95 per person for the entire event with CEU’s available. This conference occurs only every two years, so you don’t want to miss it. We hope to see you in March.

CTF grantee, University City Children’s Center (UCCC), St. Louis, has begun using apprentices to help meet the needs and rigors of their expanding program. St. Louis Public Radio recently aired a segment on this innovative approach to meet the demands of their workforce needs while providing valuable on-the-job training that will enable aspiring early childhood professionals to get closer to receiving their Child Development Associate credential.

The FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) is pleased to announce the release of new web-based resources available on the FRIENDS website. To learn more about each resource visit https://friendsnrc.org//.