Best Practices for Investigating, Locating and Recovering Abducted Children
This training will present best practices when locating and recovering abducted children pursuant to the Family Code, Criminal code, and the Hague Convention. Topics covered include the most efficient investigative tools and techniques, mandates of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) with sample legal documents, using the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction with sample legal documents, and ethics and liability issues when working in this field.
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Northern California Child Forensic Interview Training (CFIT)
The Child Forensic Interview Training for California is a four-day introductory course intended for new child forensic interview specialists. This course will introduce child forensic interviewing within the context of multidisciplinary team investigations; interviewer and team responsibilities; interview models and techniques; child development of language and cognition as it applies to interviewing; disclosure dynamics; childhood trauma as it relates to interviewing. Experiential exercises and role-play activities are interwoven throughout the four-day training. Video of actual interviews will be shown whenever possible. Completion of this course does not certify you to conduct child forensic interviews, consult your County CAC/MDIT for local requirements.
