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Webinar Series: Moving Beyond Mandatory Reporting: Recognizing, Reacting and Resolving Child Maltreatment with Stacie LeBlanc, J.D., M.ED.
11/9/2021 - 11/9/2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Event Description
Title: Moving Beyond Mandatory Reporting: Recognizing, Reacting and Resolving Child Maltreatment with Stacie LeBlanc, J.D., M.ED. 
Date & Time:  November 9, 2021 from 2 pm to 3 pm ET

Description: Assuring and inspiring timely and accurate reporting of child maltreatment has long been recognized as a critical first step in secondary prevention. Yet, gaps are well documented in training curriculums and in behaviors of mandatory reporters. Understanding the research and the historical origins, failures and successes of mandatory reporting will help improve trainings and support all of us who are mandatory reporters. This workshop will identify the gaps in mandatory reporting trainings and address barriers to recognizing and timely reporting. The workshop will also identify state legal reporting requirements with training curriculum to increase trauma informed responses

Learning Objectives: 
Participants will be able to:
1.       Identify gaps in mandatory reporting trainings
2.       Supplement state legal reporting requirements with training curriculum to increase a trauma informed response 
3.       Address the barriers to recognizing and timely reporting 

 
References: 
Leonard G. Brown III & Kevin Gallagher, Mandatory Reporting of Abuse: A Historical Perspective on the Evolution of States' Current Mandatory Reporting Laws with a Review of the Laws in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 59 Vill. L. Rev. Tolle Lege 37 (2014).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/vlr/vol59/iss6/5
 
Walsh K, Rassafiani M, Mathews B, Farrell A, Butler D. Exploratory factor analysis and psychometric evaluation of the Teachers Reporting Attitude Scale for Child Sexual Abuse. J Child Sex Abuse. 2012; 21(5): 489-506.
 
Hamby SL, Finkelhor D, Turner HA, Ormrod R. The overlap of witnessing partner violence with child maltreatment and other victimizations in a nationally representative survey of youth. Child Abuse Negl. 2010;34: 734–41. 


Stacie LeBlanc, MEd, JD is the President of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She is the co-founder of The UP Institute, a think tank for upstream child abuse solutions providing consultation and training. She began her career as a child abuse prosecutor in Jefferson Parish more than 30 years ago. Ms. LeBlanc became the chief of the Felony Child Abuse Division, began the Family Violence Program and helped open Child Advocacy Centers in rural and urban parishes. She received the “Outstanding Prosecutor Award” from Victims and Citizens Against Crime for the unit’s 94% conviction rate and the prosecution of a 20-year-old child rape case, which garnered national media attention. LeBlanc is the Founding Director of the New Orleans Children’s Advocacy Center and Audrey Hepburn CARE Center, two nonprofit programs for Children’s Hospital New Orleans that treated over 1,500 children annually. She serves on several state and national boards including as a member of the National Review Board for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, a member of the Executive Committee of the National Initiative to End Corporal Punishment, and as the Founder and First President of the Louisiana Alliance of Children’s Advocacy Centers.