Understanding Children’s Sexual Behavior (1-1.5 hours)
YSO Staff
Summary
Children’s Advocacy Center’s trainings focus on prevention, intervention, treatment, and therapy. Their goal is to ‘empower community members and professionals with information, knowledge, and tools to positively impact children and families who have experienced abuse’. These trainings focus on informing caregivers and professionals on many topics related to children’s safety. The trainings focus on awareness of child abuse, recognizing signs, responding and reporting abuse, and skill building for professionals helping victims recover. Trainings are customized for the needs of each organization, and many are offered free of charge
When children display sexual behaviors, it can be difficult to gauge the level of concern and know how to best respond. Participants will learn how to differentiate between sexual behavior that is problematic from what is typical or developmentally expected and identify resources to help children exhibiting problematic sexual behaviors.
