| Date | Event |
| 3/2/2026 -3/2/2026 | Uplifting Unsung Heroines & Heroes: America’s Social Workers Presenter: Darrell Armstrong, EdS-MFT Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress - On and Off the Job Description: Doing child protection work requires heart, courage, and endurance. Yet constant exposure to trauma can quietly impact even the most dedicated professionals. This compact workshop creates space to understand secondary trauma while offering practical tools for resilience. Participants will leave with strategies to stay grounded, maintain hope, and sustain themselves in this meaningful work—because protecting children starts with protecting the people who serve them. Presenter: Mary Pulido, PhD Championing Social Work with NASW: Uplift. Defend. Transform Presenter: April Ferguson, LCSW-C |
| 3/11/2026 -4/29/2026 |
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| 3/26/2026 -3/26/2026 | Article Featured: Characteristics of Child Sexual Abuse Material in Peer-to-Peer Networks and Predictors of its Severity: Insights From Filenames. Presenters: Ted Cross, PhD, Camille Cooper Abstract: The Internet has empowered millions of perpetrators who create and consume child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the current term replacing child pornography. In this study, we coded data from a random sample of 2980 filenames from files shared in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks from U.S. IP addresses in 2021. Most filenames referenced girls and just under half referenced children aged 5 to 12. A wide variety of child races, ethnicities and nationalities were referenced. Over half of filenames described a sexually abusive act, most of which referenced penetration. The abuse referenced was more severe when filenames referenced children under the age of 13, both girls and boys, incest, and/or children or youth of color. The findings underline the harm to children from CSAM, suggest the value of a racial justice perspective on CSAM, and support the need to search for CSAM as part of contact child sexual abuse investigations. Link to article
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