KCSDV Sponsored Trainings and Events
August-November, 2023 - Virtual Series
Audience: Child Welfare Professionals, including DCF Staff, Reintegration and Family Preservation Case Managers and Family Support Workers; Social Workers; Mental Health Professionals; Foster Home, Kinship, and Adoption Workers; and CASAs. Kin/Relative, Foster, and Adoptive Families are also welcome and encouraged to attend, as well as KCSDV Member Program Advocates
October 5, 2023 - Virtual
Audience: KCSDV member program advocates and staff only
October 17-20, 2023 - Garden City
Audience: healthcare professionals (APRN, RN, LPN), SANEs, physicians, physician assistants, law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates, mental health professionals, KCSDV member program advocates and staff, and other professionals who work with victims of sexual assault
November 8, 2023 - Hutchinson
Audience: EMS Personnel, Hospital Emergency Department Personnel, Physicians, Licensed Physician Assistants, Registered Professional Nurses
November 8-10, 2023 - Wichita
Audience: KCSDV member program Executive Directors and/or their designees
November 14-17, 2023 - Topeka
Audience: KCSDV member program advocates and staff
December 6-7, 2022 - Wichita, KS
AUDIENCE:Healthcare professionals (APRN, RN, PA, and MD) and SANEs.
January 11-12, 2024 - Pittsburg, KS
AUDIENCE:RN's who have completed a 40-hour SANE/SART Adult/Adolescent Course or a 64-Hour Adult, Adolescent & Pediatric SANE SART Course. In addition, it is highly encouraged to have attained competency with speculum insertions prior to attending this course.
Other Trainings
Trauma-Informed Sexual Assault Investigations
THIS FREE, ONLINE COURSE IS OFFERED ON DEMAND
This 5-hour course presented by Retired Chief Tom Tremblay, focuses on Trauma-Informed Sexual Assault Investigations. This course will help you examine rape myths and the potential for bias to impact investigations of sexual assault; teach you about how the brain and body react to trauma, and the impact of trauma on memory; help you understand how victim trauma can impact the response, investigation, and prosecution of sexual assault; help you understand offender behaviors; and provide guidance for developing trauma informed investigative strategies that capture the evidence necessary to enable a successful prosecution.
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