Child Sexual Abuse
HUDDLE 2025 Session 2
Case of Multigenerational CSA: Identification of Child Sexual Abuse
ISPCAN Resources
This Huddle session focused on identifying the signs of CSA before a direct disclosure (noticing and addressing red flags) and around initial disclosure. In addition, the presenters focused on immediate responses to the disclosure. Discussions addressed the role of institutional policies in early identification. Public health interventions begin with prevention-focused actions that are taken at a whole-of-population level, often through already existing universal service delivery platforms where contact with families occurs (i.e. health, education and child care services), complemented by community-based actions and population-wide strategies. The latter includes information about child safety, awareness raising actions, regulations and controls, and provision of training, resources and supports – for professionals working with families, as well as direct provision of parenting skills and other supports for families themselves.
This documentary REWIND will serve as a case study throughout the training and provide an essential foundation for discussions in the following sessions. What we would have, could have, should have done-- so we can improve on each sectors response, and the multidisciplinary, collaborative response. This innovative online training is designed for mid-career practitioners from various disciplines involved in child protection. It will provide an in-depth exploration of multigenerational child sexual abuse (CSA) within the context of culture, family, and systems of care. Participants will explore how social work, education, medical, mental health, and justice systems interact to protect and respond to children who underwent CSA, gaining a deeper understanding of their roles and impact. This practice-based, case study-driven, and multidisciplinary training will equip participants with practical tools, best practices, and a comprehensive approach to enhance their professional responses to CSA. The training will generate key takeaways both at the practical level and at the policy level.
Listen to the HUDDLE Session 2 Recording
Huddle Date:
May 8, 2025
Region:
Global
Topics:
Collaborative Care Models
Public Health Approach
Multi-generational CSA
Downloadable Resources
HUDDLE Session 2 Presentation Slides
HUDDLE 2025 Session 2 - Take Home Messages
Huddle Session 2 Mentimeter Poll Results
HUDDLE Session 2 Breakout Room Discussion Questions
HUDDLE Session 2 Attendee Demographics
A Vision To Zero: A Roadmap to Ending Childhood Sexual Violence
Getting To Zero: The Evidence to End Childhood Sexual Violence
External Resources
ISPCAN Collaborative Framework Tool
A Health and Public Health Approach to Ending Child Maltreatment
Safe Futures Hub - Solutions Index
Program Evaluation
What HUDDLE Participants Hope to Learn
Powerful testimonials from attendees of Sessions 1 & 2:
“The Huddle affirms the common challenges but also affirms the need to keep trying to expand safety, support, and protection”
“It validated my clinical practice during the intervention sessions with children and adolescents, good learning about other countries child protection part”
“The information presented today directly supports my work in child protection”
Identification - Learning Objectives
- Understand the difficulty in identifying the sexual abuse of boys
- Understand how the public health model helps us think about the role of stigma and shame in the disclosure and treatment of child sexual abuse
- Understand the role of universal screenings in the identification and prevention of child sexual abuse
Each training session will include
- Cutting-edge knowledge
- Best practices
- Context informed paradigm
- Addressing resources of each region
- Public health approach
- For each session, key themes and take-home messages will be framed and disseminated to the participants.
Training Format
Each session will be structured as follows:
🔹 30 min. Initial presentation by experts in the field leading the session
🔹 30 min. Small-group discussions in multidisciplinary breakout rooms
🔹 30 min. Joint discussion to identify key takeaways in policy & practice
Expected Outcomes
- Encouraging participants to think differently and adopt new ideas for their region
- Identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement in policy and practice
- Framing key insights and take-home messages, which will be documented and disseminated
Participants will gain insights into:
- How the public health model can broaden our understanding of the risk and protective environments that impact children
- How assessments and interventions can be positioned to leverage new and emerging findings on risk exposure and resilience
- How services within child protection systems can be strengthened to support families in need
- How services in the community can complement services within the child protection system to support vulnerable children
- How individual actions of the practitioner can embolden a system and lead to better outcomes for children
Session Leaders:
Presenter: Todd Herrenkohl PhD
Professor, Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families, University of Michigan School of Social Work, USA
TODD I. HERRENKOHL, PhD is Professor and Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. His research focuses on the correlates and consequences of child maltreatment, risk and resiliency, and lifecourse development. His funded studies and publications examine the developmental underpinnings of violence at different points in the lifecourse and protective factors that buffer against risk exposure in children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Herrenkohl works with international scholars, policy makers, and practitioners to increase the visibility, application, and sustainability of evidence-based programs and practices in child trauma and prevention.
Presenter: Dick Krugman MD
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Department of Pediatrics, Kempe Center Colorado, USA
Richard D. Krugman, MD, is a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and former Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He served as Director of the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect from 1981-1992. Dr. Krugman is a graduate of Princeton University and earned his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. A board-certified pediatrician, he did his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Krugman is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has authored over 145 original papers, chapters, editorials and thirteen books and stepped down after 15 years as Editor-in-Chief of Child Abuse and Neglect: the International Journal in 2001. He is the 2018 Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect.
Curriculum Support: Jill Korbin PhD
Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor Emeritus Senior Advisor, Schubert Center for Child Studies Case Western Reserve University Distinguished Fellow, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jill E. Korbin (Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA 1978) is Leffingwell Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and a Distinguished Fellow at The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University. She served on ISPCAN’s Executive Board, NRC's Panel on Research on CA/N, and ChildFund International’s Board. Korbin was an Associate Editor of Child Abuse and Neglect, and a SRCD Congressional Science Fellow. At CWRU, Korbin was Director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies and an Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. She publishes on culture, context and neighborhood influences on child maltreatment, edited Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1981, 2018) and co-edited the Handbook of Child Well-Being (2014). Korbin and Krugman co-edited the book series Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy that includes the Handbook of Child Maltreatment. First Edition (Korbin and Krugman, 2014) and Second Edition (Krugman and Korbin 2022).
Session Facilitators:
Abbie Newman, JD, RN
Pablo Munoz D.Psy
Jordan Greenbaum, MD
Kathi Wells, MD
Sarah Imbesi
Pragathi Tummala MPH
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