Partnership for Safe Families & Communities of Ventura County

Every April, we gather as a VIRTUAL community for National Child Abuse Prevention Month to recognize the importance of working together to prevent child maltreatment.

San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Child Abuse Prevention Councils will be hosting a VIRTUAL regional raising of the Children’s Memorial Flag and pausing for a Moment of Silence to raise awareness for the children who lost their lives to abuse and neglect.

Meeting ID: 865 3737 2426

Presented by Ventura & Oxnard College FKCE
Instructor: Anne Rodriguez
Understand the effects of sexual abuse and become equiped with tools to create safety, build trust, and support healing in children who have experienced sexual trauma. The goal is not to fix everything, but to provide safe and supportive caregiving.
Learn about trauma's impact on the brain and how sexual abise disrupts the brain's ability to feel safe and the physical signs you may notice in your child.
Learn to recognize triggers and offer safe alternatives to help children feel emotionally and physically safe and help child develop bodily autonomy.
Learn practical ways to support healing within you home
Your Instructor: Anne Rodriguez is a trainer & master coach with over 20 years of experience training and coaching for organizations like Child Welfare Services, Law Enforcement, Probation, Youth Independent Living Programs and Rehabilitation Programs. She is also a Master Mindset Coach helping clients remove blocks to be their best self and live their highest quality life.

CE Hours: 1.5

Presented by CalTrin
Learn the basics on how to engage with fathers and increase your organization’s father friendliness. This training will discuss biases and common misconceptions, review research supporting father involvement, and identify best practices in strength-based father engagement and ways to help re-engage absent dads. Finally, we will discuss “Right Now” actions and resources you can take when you return to work! Participants will:
1. Understand bias and common misconceptions about fathers and father engagement
2. Review research supporting father involvement.
3. Identify best practices for strength-based father engagement and ways to help re-engage absent dads
4. Discuss “Right Now” actions and resources

CE Hours: 2

Presented by FKCE
Instructor: Dr. Judy Sullivan Osterhage
Art can be a coping technique of self-expression and self-awareness employing various media to describe feelings and thoughts in ways that verbal language cannot. It can be a helpful tool to help children express pain & joy. Participants will look at and discuss several examples from children of all ages!
Your Instructor: Dr. Judy Sullivan Osterhage is a Parent Coach Consultant with Parenting Matters & an Early Childhood Specialist. She holds a Doctorate in Elementary Education, and with that, has brought educational trainings to foster and adoptive parents for over 30 years!

CE Hours: 2