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Coordinated Investigative Response to Child Abuse (CIRCA) - also known as First Responders Training

Open to law enforcement and Health and Human Services personnel and others if space is available. Space is limited to 50 attendees.  This is a two-day event and attendance is required for both days. Training is on San Diego’s updated Child Victim Witness Protocol and how to handle crime scenes & cases, medical evaluations, interviewing and law updates. Focus is on coordination of law enforcement and child protection teams. Click on the above registration link for dates, times and locations of trainings.
FREE lunch included. CEU’s available.

Child Protection Team Lunch Trainings

A one hour lunch time training on Child Abuse topics of interest identified by the San Diego County Child Protection Management Team. Meetings are held at the San Diego Sheriff Department Training rooms located in Kearny Mesa. Click on the above registration link for dates and times of trainings.
FREE lunch included.

Physical Indications of Child Abuse for the Investigator Training    

What indicates abuse, when is abuse not likely, where do injuries occur, controversies and alternate theories, what can the physician say about abuse in court? Open to law enforcement, and Health and Human Services personnel as well as others if space is available. Click on the above registration link for dates, times and locations of trainings.
2-day training.  Space limited to 50.  CEUs available.
Free lunch included.

Child Protection Team Management Meetings  

Child Protection Team Management is a bi-monthly meeting at the Rady Children's Hospital -Chadwick Center involving supervisory and management staff of the San Diego Police Department, San Diego Sheriff Department, the District Attorney's Office, Child Welfare Services, San Diego County Counsel, Rady Children's Hospital , Palomar Hospital , The Commission on Children, Youth and Family and Promises2kids.  The goal  is to seek ways to improve the overall operation and effectiveness of San Diego's multidisciplinary response to serious child abuse.

For information on Child Protection Team meetings, please contact Marilyn Kaufhold at mkaufhold@rchsd.org

Download the Child Protection Team Orientation Packet Here
Download the Child Victim-Witness Protocol Packet Here

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