Maca Offers Trainings To Enhance The Response To Child Abuse

We are committed to helping abused children get the best care possible. That starts by ensuring teams of professionals everywhere are up to date on the latest approaches to delivering equitable and effective care of abused children. Our local, regional, and national child abuse trainings educate community members, multidisciplinary professionals, and everyone in between.

Some of our trainings include:

• Healing, Hope, and Justice: An Advanced Conversation – MACA hosts an annual conference where we train multidisciplinary professionals from around the country on the best practices and innovative responses to child sexual abuse and exploitation. We’ve trained over 2,700 professionals – including police, prosecutors, Department of Children and Families, victim advocates, medical professionals, and mental health providers.
• Recognizing and Responding to Child Abuse – If a child is expressing a fear of going home, has sudden behavioral changes, and/or unexplained injuries, they may be victims of abuse. Child abuse comes in many forms, including physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, maltreatment, and neglect. MACA helps teachers, parents, youth serving professionals, and concerned community members identify the various forms of child abuse and what steps you can take to help a child in need.
• Mental Health Training Initiatives – MACA assists in training clinicians statewide in evidence-based modalities. The purpose of these mental health training initiatives is to reduce the wait lists for children & adolescents seeking trauma-based mental health services and to connect Children Advocacy Centers with their local agencies and trained clinicians. MACA collaborates with leaders in mental health to stay up to date on the needs in Massachusetts and to better understand how MACA can leverage funding to improve the mental health services for child victims of abuse.