OUR TRAININGS
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Infant Care and Safety
Happiest Baby on the Block
Learn simple techniques to calm crying babies and strengthen caregiver confidence.
Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention
Learn how to prevent shaken baby syndrome and keep infants safe.
Safe Sleep for Babies
Learn about the importance of safe sleep environments and practices to reduce the risk of infant sleep-related deaths.
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Impact of Childhood Trauma
Trauma 101: The Impact of Childhood Trauma
Learn the basics of trauma, how it affects brain development, and how it can impact children over time.
Building a Road to Resilience
Understand how resilience develops in children, youth, and families and learn strategies that help build coping skills and positive outcomes.
Prioritizing Our Own Well Being
Explore how working with trauma can impact helping professionals and caregivers, with a focus on strengthening well-being and creating supportive workplace environments.
Understanding ACEs: Why the Body Doesn’t Forget
Learn how adverse childhood experiences affect health and development over time.
Poverty: Cycles of Risk
Learn how poverty connects with stress, trauma, and family challenges. This training encourages reflection and explores ways to better support families and communities.
Effective Engagement: Building Resilience in Youth and Families
Learn strategies to build trust and support resilience in families, especially those who have been impacted by trauma.
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Substance Use
Drug Endangered Children (DEC) Awareness
Learn how substance use environments impact children’s safety and well-being.
DEC: Moving from Awareness to Action
Learn how systems can collaborate to better support drug-endangered children.
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Domestic Violence
The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Learn about the cycle and dynamics of domestic violence and understand dangers and risks to children
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Child Abuse Prevention
Child Abuse Prevention 101
Learn how to recognize and respond to child abuse and neglect.
Childhood Neglect: The Basics
Learn what neglect is and how it affects children’s development.
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Learn how to recognize, respond to, and prevent child sexual abuse.
Stewards of Children
Learn practical steps to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse developed by Darkness to Light.
Building Protective Factors
Learn the six protective factors that strengthen families and reduce risk of child abuse and neglect and strategies you can use everyday to build them.
Building a Culture of Support for Families
Learn the importance of offering concrete supports to meet immediate needs while also ensuring that appropriate action—such as making a hotline call—is taken when safety is a concern.
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Other Learning Opportunites
Paper Tigers
Documentary Discussion
The film intimately examines the inspiring promise of Trauma Informed Communities - a movement that is showing great promise in healing youth struggling with the dark legacy of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES).
Resilience Documentary Discussion: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope
The documentary reveals how toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brain and bodies of children putting them at greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time and early death.
On Demand Training
Knowledge. Skills
Stronger Communities
We offer many trainings here at Prevent Child Abuse Illinois
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