apsac colloquium & cultural institute

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The annual colloquium of APSAC (the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children) will take place July 23-26 2003 in Orlando Florida. Top national experts from social work, law enforcement, psychology, medicine, law, and other fields will share their practice ideas and research in a collegial atmosphere in a tropic setting.

 

For the seventh year, the APSAC Colloquium will begin with a full day of programing on Cultural Issues in Child Maltreatment. This year's Cultural Institute will open with a panel on:

 Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: What it means to the Rest of Us

and will include special workshop on topics including:

 

• Muslim Families & Child Maltreatment Issues
• Working with Hispanic Men who are VIolent in Their Families
• Santeria & AfroCaribbean Religions
• Haitians & Child Maltreatment
• African American Survivors & Families: Cultural Considerations
• Conducting Forensic Interviews in Spanish: A bilingual Session
• Immigration relief for Abuse, Abandoned or Neglected Immigrant Children
• Child Sexual Abuse in Hispanic Families
• Southeast Asian Culture & Sexual Abuse
• The Disappeared Children of Argentina
• Physical abuse, Discipline & Culture

AND SO MUCH MORE

 

Sessions on cultural issues in child maltreatment will be held throughout the colloquium, in the days following The Cultural Institute.

 

To register for the Colloquium, the Cultural Institute, or Both, go to the APSAC website at: www.apsac.org or contact APSAC at: 405-271-8202 or tricia-williams@xxxxxxxxx.  At the website you can download the complete brochure.

 

I hope you'll join us!