2025 CALENDAR
DCAC TRAINING & COMMUNITY OUTREACH TEAM
MEET OUR TEAM
DIANNA SMOOT
Chief Education & Training Officer | DCAC
LANA AHRENS, LMSW
Director of Training & Community Outreach | DCAC
BRITTANY MCGOWAN, MSW
Assistant Director of Training & Community Outreach | DCAC
YURI BETANCOURT-BOYA, MSW
Bilingual Training & Community Outreach Specialist | DCAC
CARLOS RUBIO, MSW
Bilingual Training & Community Outreach Specialist | DCAC
ABOUT OUR TRAINING
DCAC believes education and training are one of the community’s best defenses against those who seek to harm children. DCAC’s education team delivers high-quality training for professionals working in the field of crimes against children, mandated reporters, parents, and the community at large. Our in-person and video-based curricula addresses a gap in the marketplace for comprehensive child abuse training.
DCAC’s education team first began its community education initiative in Dallas County and has now made its programs appropriate for national use.
DCAC LECTURE SERIES
ABOUT LECTURE SERIES WHO CAN ATTEND
The DCAC Lecture Series is held at various times throughout the year in DCAC’s stateof-the-art training facility. Lecture Series is designed for the sole purpose of providing training to only those people employed by governmental and non-profit agencies in the fields of law enforcement, prosecution, child protective services, social work, children’s advocacy, therapy, probation, parole, and medicine who work directly with child victims of crime and whose intent is to help children in their healing process.
LEARN MORE
Visit https://dcac.org/training/ lecture-series/
Registration is limited to professionals employed in governmental and non-profit agencies who work directly with children and families. Please note, some trainings are further restricted to only those professionals in the fields of law enforcement, prosecution, child protective services, social work, children’s advocacy, therapy, probation, parole, and medicine who work directly with child victims of crime whose intent is to help children in their healing process. DCAC staff reserves the right to refuse registration and/or admissions to any individual who does not meet these criteria. If you have any questions about your registration, please email Lana Ahrens at lahrens@dcac.org
SEXUAL ASSAULT OF CHILDREN
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
LARRY BRAUNSTEIN, J.D. Braunstein & Zuckerman, Esqs
ABOUT OUR TRAINING
JIM TANNER, PH.D. President | KBSolutions Inc.
GRAHAM HILL, PH.D. Criminologist & Former Senior Detective
REGISTER HERE
In-Person Only
https://cvent.me/eznKYo
Trident Training was created by three internationally recognized experts each of whom train thousands of professionals annually. Trident Training is offering a unique two-day in person masterclass that aims to promote and strengthen multi agency discussion in relation to adults who sexually assault children. This special two-day masterclass is designed for an audience that includes law enforcement, CPS/DSS case workers, forensic interviewers, prosecutors (civil and criminal), medical professionals, probation officers, therapists, victim advocates, and CASA volunteers.
OCTOBER 3 - 4, 2024
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKER ABOUT OUR TRAINING
ELENA DOSKEY DE LOBÓN, PH.D
Director of Clinical Training | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
REGISTER HERE
In-Person
https://cvent.me/Z0dxEL
Virtual https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/4484170596596269653
This training will provide a thorough introduction to the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) model. Developed by Dr. Brian Miller, CE-CERT is a skills-based approach to improving provider well-being and effectiveness in working with primary traumatic stress. CE-CERT posits that secondary traumatic stress is not developed in response to mere exposure to others’ trauma stories but occurs when feeling overwhelmed or helpless. The five skill domains of CE-CERT i.e., experiential engagement, decreasing rumination, conscious narrative, reducing emotional labor, and parasympathetic recovery will be taught through both didactic and experiential activities.
OCTOBER 10, 2024 9 AM - 4 PM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKER
ELENA DOSKEY DE LOBÓN, PH.D
Director
of
Clinical Training | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
The potential deleterious impacts on professionals working with survivors of trauma are often discussed with limited focus on equipping supervisors to help their supervisees minimize this secondary traumatic stress. This training will focus on implementing the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) skills into your supervisory roles within your agency to improve the wellbeing of the supervisor and supervisee alike. Completion of the introductory CE-CERT Foundations training is required for participation in this training. Verification will be requested upon registration.
REGISTER HERE
In-Person https://cvent.me/ANmG28
Virtual https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/8244759848335048288
OCTOBER 11, 2024 9 AM - 4 PM CT
EMPATHY BASED INTERROGATION
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
NANCY OGLESBY
Trainer & Consultant | Justice 3D
ABOUT OUR TRAINING
EBI is a research-based, conversational, interview philosophy. It is designed to elicit accurate and actionable information from an interviewee.
MIKE MILNOR
Trainer & Consultant | Justice 3D
MARK MACKIZER
Trainer & Consultant | Justice 3D
REGISTER HERE
In-Person | Law Enforcement Only https://cvent.me/Z0NlX1
The EBI interview is tailored to an individual’s unique personality in order to induce instrumental problem solving. It begins with creating an atmosphere that encourages an interviewee to share what is most important to them and to talk at their own pace. This open narrative is then followed by the use of clarification questions, specific “tracer round” questions and the strategic introduction of evidence. The EBI philosophy focuses on gaining accurate information and corroboration, with confession being a byproduct of the successful conversation.
OCTOBER 28 - 31, 2024 8 AM - 5 PM CT
NANCY OGLESBY
Trainer & Consultant | Justice 3D
MIKE MILNOR
Trainer & Consultant | Justice 3D
Child abuse and child homicide cases are extremely difficult to investigate. This is not only because of highly-charged emotions, but also because at first glance these cases frequently appear to be accidents. This course will be taught from a multi-disciplinary perspective with each instructor providing a unique viewpoint to these investigations.
In-Person
DR. ROBIN FOSTER
Trainer & Consultant | Justice 3D
https://cvent.me/bYmDzk
NOVEMBER 6 - 8, 2024 9 AM - 4 PM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
JONAH STEWART
Research Director | Coalition for Responsible Home Education
ANGELA GRIMBERG
Executive Director | Coalition for Responsible Home Education
Virtual Only
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/5099294578428402013
In this training, we present our findings and what they teach us about the unique risks that abused homeschooled children face. We provide an overview of homeschooling policy and research, paying particular attention to homeschooling in Texas. We share our findings related to unique red flags, risk factors, and patterns of abuse associated with abusive homeschool environments, and discuss how policy and procedural gaps can lead to devastating outcomes for abused homeschooled children.
14, 2024 10 AM - 11:30 AM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKER
ELI MOLINA Director of Forensic Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
Screening children for sexual abuse can be overwhelming and often times contains critical information for an investigation. As a CPS worker, do you know how to properly screen children for sexual abuse? Do you know what questions to ask and when to stop a sexual abuse screening? Do you know when a case should by-pass a screening and come directly to a Children’s Advocacy Center, for a forensic interview? In this lecture, attendees can expect to learn how to screen children for sexual abuse, what questions to ask if a child discloses, when to stop, and how to determine when a case should be seen at a CAC.
REGISTER HERE
In-Person | DFPS Only
https://cvent.me/VBzAGb
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 1:30 PM - 3 PM CT
ELI MOLINA
Director of Forensic Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
HOLLY DOTSON
Sr. Director of Therapeutic Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
MEGGIE EVANS
Director of Clinical Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
This course is an introduction to the dynamics of child sexual abuse. Attendees will be educated on the dynamics of an investigation, the disclosure process, grooming behaviors, compliant victim characteristics, and trauma.
In-Person
https://cvent.me/P4l8AG NOVEMBER 21, 2024 9 AM - 2 PM CT
3 Emerging Issues in Tech-Facilitated Abuse: Protecting Victims Against Modern Harms
3 Valuing Our Digital Safety Like Physical Safety: Surprising Tips and Insights * DCAC STAFF & PARTNERS ONLY | ** HOSTED TRAINING
MEET
ADAM DODGE Founder | EndTAB
Virtual-Only
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/4337026256349334620
The online spaces, apps and devices relied upon by victims also consistently manifest emerging threats to their digital safety and well-being - including fake nude images, AIpowered catfishing, stalkeware, nonconsensual tracking, image-based stalking/doxxing and more. This session offers a comprehensive exploration of these digital challenges, including the impact on marginalized victims, and will equip participants with practical strategies to confidently discuss and strengthen the emotional, physical, and digital safety and well-being of modern victims. Attendees will walk away with actionable steps and tools to effectively counter and prevent these emerging threats and foster confidence in victims and survivors when interacting with the technology they need to survive and thrive.
DECEMBER 3, 2024 10 AM - 11:30 AM CT
ADAM DODGE Founder | EndTAB
Today, we are spending more time online and on our devices than ever before, which has created new safety risks in our lives. This is especially true considering people will say and do things online that they wouldn’t in the physical world. As such, it has become increasingly important to develop skills that meaningfully prioritize our digital safety. In this interactive and engaging talk, we will discuss practical ways to verify and address modern challenges including nonconsensual tracking, online scams, unauthorized account access, cyberflashing and more.
Virtual-Only
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/7244772716933216859 DECEMBER 3, 2024 6 PM - 7:30 PM CT
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
In-Person
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IPC_ DALLAS_2025
IPC is designed to make patrol officers aware of the variety of resources available to assist them in establishing the status of a child IPC uses a multidisciplinary approach to train law enforcement, prosecutors, criminal analysts, child protective services, victim services, and child advocacy center professionals collectively. The IPC training team works with local, state, federal, tribal, U.S. territory, and international partners to provide classes and educate others on how to intervene when a child is in danger. Documented results prove IPC enhances an officer’s ability to identify victims of exploitation, missing children, technology-facilitated crimes against children, high-risk threats against children, and registered sex offender violations.
JANUARY 8 - 9, 2025 8 AM - 5 PM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKER
ELENA DOSKEY DE LOBÓN, PH.D
Director of Clinical Training | Dallas
Children’s Advocacy Center
ABOUT OUR TRAINING
This training will provide a thorough introduction to the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) model. Developed by Dr. Brian Miller, CE-CERT is a skills-based approach to improving provider well-being and effectiveness in working with primary traumatic stress. CE-CERT posits that secondary traumatic stress is not developed in response to mere exposure to others’ trauma stories but occurs when feeling overwhelmed or helpless. The five skill domains of CE-CERT i.e., experiential engagement, decreasing rumination, conscious narrative, reducing emotional labor, and parasympathetic recovery will be taught through both didactic and experiential activities.
REGISTER HERE
In-Person | Staff & Partners Only https://cvent.me/35Vz8l
JANUARY 23, 2025 9 AM - 4 PM CT
KEVIN ORTIZ-DIAZ
Doctoral Student | Department of Psychology at FIU
MAUREEN KENNY, PH.D.
Professor of Psychology | Department of Psychology at FIU
NATHAN EARL
Director | Men’s Haven Health Initiative
Virtual-Only https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/6793690377425565274
1. Recognize Prevalence and Vulnerability: Attendees will understand the prevalence of CSE among young males and the specific demographic, systemic, and psychosocial factors that increase their vulnerability.
2. Identify Impacts and Needs: Attendees will identify the psychological, physical, behavioral, and social outcomes of CSE for young males and the long-term effects on their health, development, and well-being.
3. Analyze and Act: Attendees will use insights from the research to identify gaps in research, policy, and program offerings related to the commercial sexual exploitation of young males within their respective communities and professional roles.
JANUARY 30, 2025 10 AM - 11:15 AM CT
New Team Member Orientation*
The Impact of AI on Child Exploitation
Screening for Sexual Abuse in the Field (DFPS Only)*
DCAC STAFF & PARTNERS ONLY | ** HOSTED TRAINING
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
TED WILSON Law Enforcement Instructor
CRAIG GOODHART Law Enforcement Instructor
REGISTER HERE
In-Person | Law Enforcement & Prosecutors Only
https://cvent.me/OEngn8
ABOUT OUR TRAINING
This course is designed to show officers and prosecutors how to draft affidavits and search warrants that will meet any attack from the defense in a Motion to Suppress. The instructors walk the students through the entire process of gathering sufficient probable cause, articulating that probable cause in a search warrant affidavit, and insuring that the search warrant authorizes the officer to search and seize all contraband and evidence relevant to the investigation. Common and not-so-common mistakes are discussed, and the students are given various affidavits and search warrants for their review to see if they can spot mistakes and potential challenges. Solutions are then provided which show how to properly write the affidavit and search warrant in the various scenarios.
FEBRUARY 6 - 7, 2025 9 AM - 4 PM CT
MEET
SPEAKER
CHUCK EASTTOM, PH.D.
Speaker & Senior Member | ACM & IEEE
Join Chuck Easttom, Ph.D. as he discusses the impact of AI on child exploitation. He will cover how large language models and deep fakes are being used to exploit children. The training will include hands on labs as well as lecture and demonstration.
In-Person
https://cvent.me/a5RL3l
FEBRUARY 21, 2025 9 AM - 4 PM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKER
ELI MOLINA Director of Forensic Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
Screening children for sexual abuse can be overwhelming and often times contains critical information for an investigation. As a CPS worker, do you know how to properly screen children for sexual a? Do you know what questions to ask and when to stop a sexual abuse screening? Do you know when a case should by-pass a screening and come directly to a Children’s Advocacy Center, for a forensic interview? In this lecture, attendees can expect to learn how to screen children for sexual abuse, what questions to ask if a child discloses, when to stop, and how to determine when a case should be seen at a CAC.
REGISTER HERE
In-Person | DFPS Only
https://cvent.me/wmqgzZ
FEBRUARY 27, 2025 1:30 PM - 3 PM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
DARREL LAMBERT
Detective | Austin Police Department
VALENTIN DE LOS SANTOS
Detective | Austin Police Department
REGISTER HERE
In-Person Only
https://cvent.me/P4noZL
In this course, the student will learn how to be successful in the interview room with criminal suspects. The student will be part of a group working through a scenario. The student will learn how to plan their interview, contact the suspect, ask questions, detect deception, present evidence, and interrogate. This 2-day course provides 20 hours of TCOLE credit.
MARCH 3 - 4, 2025 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKER ABOUT OUR TRAINING
ELENA DOSKEY DE LOBÓN, PH.D
Director of Clinical Training | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
REGISTER HERE
In-Person
https://cvent.me/lBd1l1
Virtual https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/3977772924239064406
This training will provide a thorough introduction to the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) model. Developed by Dr. Brian Miller, CE-CERT is a skills-based approach to improving provider well-being and effectiveness in working with primary traumatic stress. CE-CERT posits that secondary traumatic stress is not developed in response to mere exposure to others’ trauma stories but occurs when feeling overwhelmed or helpless. The five skill domains of CE-CERT i.e., experiential engagement, decreasing rumination, conscious narrative, reducing emotional labor, and parasympathetic recovery will be taught through both didactic and experiential activities.
APRIL 3, 2025 9 AM - 4 PM CT
ELENA DOSKEY DE LOBÓN, PH.D
Director
of
Clinical Training | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
The potential deleterious impacts on professionals working with survivors of trauma are often discussed with limited focus on equipping supervisors to help their supervisees minimize this secondary traumatic stress. This training will focus on implementing the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) skills into your supervisory roles within your agency to improve the wellbeing of the supervisor and supervisee alike. Completion of the introductory CE-CERT Foundations training is required for participation in this training. Verification will be requested upon registration.
REGISTER HERE
In-Person https://cvent.me/o1No7z
Virtual https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/2765046783174235478
APRIL 4, 2025 9 AM - 4 PM CT
DAVE CLARK Detective | Dallas Police Department
https://cvent.me/ZdNvrn
This presentation will cover every avenue as it pertains to a Child Abuse Investigation. Beginning with understanding the different types of outcries to preparing your case for trial and everything in between. This presentation will cover social media search warrants, investigative techniques, suspect interrogations, and court room preparedness. Case studies will be utilized to show where actual interrogations, one party phone calls, and understanding delayed outcries were used for successful prosecutions. This presentation will equip child abuse detectives with tools they can utilize in their investigations.
SEXUAL ABUSE DYNAMICS
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
ELI MOLINA
Director of Forensic Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
HOLLY DOTSON
Sr. Director of Therapeutic Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
MEGGIE EVANS
Director of Clinical Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
REGISTER HERE
In-Person
https://cvent.me/13LWG3
Virtual
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/5346884809428232800
This course is an introduction to the dynamics of child sexual abuse. Attendees will be educated on the dynamics of an investigation, the disclosure process, grooming behaviors, compliant victim characteristics, and trauma.
APRIL 17, 2025 8:30 AM - 12 PM CT
CHILD VICTIMS OF CRIME WITH SHARON COOPER, MD
MEET OUR SPEAKER
SHARON COOPER, MD CEO | Developmental & Forensices Pediatrics, PA
ABOUT OUR TRAINING
The program consists of four 75-minute sessions on child crimes, covering the following topics:
1. Reality Check: The Normalcy of Delayed Disclosure
2. The Survivor’s Survey
3. Compliant Victimization in Cyberspace
4. Child Torture: When to Call a Spade a Spade!
These sessions aim to enhance understanding and response to various forms of child abuse.
For more detailed descriptions about each topic, please click here.
REGISTER HERE
In-Person
https://cvent.me/N2m5ey
MAY 8, 2025 9 AM - 4 PM CT
MANGA ANIME HENTAI TRAINING
MEET OUR SPEAKER ABOUT OUR TRAINING
JACK HUBBARD Legal Consultant
The first segment will be a discussion of the underlying cultural differences between Japan and the United States that result in different than mainstream outlooks among those who consume this material in the U.S. The second segment will focus on age ratings, sourcing and how fan created content and industry created content interact and result in material to be aware of for professionals. The majority of the workshop will then focus on specific, problematic tropes and themes, including video clips of openings and the first few minutes of appropriate, borderline, and inappropriate but still legal material. These will be followed by discussion on how to identify the indicators that something is concerning.
REGISTER HERE
In-Person
https://cvent.me/zBrzxM
MAY 15, 2025 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM CT
NICHOLAS LA MERE
Lead
Therapist - Intern & Training |
Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
RACHAEL CARRICO Deputy Chief | Juvenile Division Dallas
County
District Attorney’s Office
This presentation aims to increase awareness of problematic and illegal sexual behavior in youth and adolescence. Presenters will discuss from the lens of a treating therapist and a district attorney appropriate language, mutual goals, appropriate interventions for these cases, and how this information can be utilized in a trial setting. It will provide an overview of the evolution of current research, evidencebased treatments, and common myths around this population.
Virtual-Only
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/ register/4065817422144447319 JUNE 5, 2025 10 AM - 11:30 AM CT
MEET OUR SPEAKERS ABOUT
RITA FARRELL
Senior Director | Zero Abuse Project
MARIA ROSALES-LAMBERT
Lead Forensic Interviewer Specialist & Trainer | Zero Abuse Project
KATHLEEN NOLAN
Senior Attorney | Zero Abuse Project
REGISTER HERE
In-Person
https://cvent.me/drVnP0
ChildFirst® is the forensic interview training program of Zero Abuse Project. During the week-long course, students receive training on the ChildFirst® Forensic Interview Protocol, child development, corroboration, memory and suggestibility, testifying in court, legal issues, and preparing children for court. This training incorporates lecture and discussion, review of electronically recorded interviews, skillbuilding exercises, an interview practicum, and written exam.
For a more detailed description of this course, please click here
JUNE 23 - 27, 2025 8 AM - 5 PM CT
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN CONFERENCE
WATCH OUR PROMO ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Internationally recognized, the Crimes Against Children Conference is the largest conference of its kind, providing practical and interactive instruction to those fighting crimes against children and helping children heal. There were more than 5,000 professionals from around the world in attendance in 2024!
The conference is presented annually by the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. The conference is conducted to provide training to those employed by government or nonprofit agencies in the fields of law enforcement, child protective services, social work, children’s advocacy, therapy, and medicine who work directly with child victims of crime.
REGISTER HERE
https://cvent.me/ ar1Kwv?RefId=Training
AUGUST 3 - 7, 2025
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
ELI MOLINA
Director of Forensic Services | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
JENNIFER SAWYER
Assistant District Attorney | Dallas County DA’s Office
REGISTER HERE
In-Person Only | Forensic Interviewers & Prosecutors Only https://cvent.me/XqZ2Ne
This course is designed for teams of two, consisting of one attorney and one forensic interviewer from the same MDT. Teams will learn to work together in preparation for a child abuse trial. This course will enhance the ability of the forensic interviewer and prosecutor participants (or civil child protection attorney) to defend the forensic interview and multidisciplinary team investigation from attacks by the defense. Prosecutors will learn how to effectively cross examine a defense expert. Forensic Interviewers will learn how to effectively defend their forensic interview in court. Prosecutors will gain skills to support the forensic interviewer and the prosecution in a child abuse case.
SEPTEMBER 3 - 5, 2025 9 AM - 4 PM CT
NEW TEAM MEMBER ORIENTATION (NTMO)
MEET OUR SPEAKER
NAKISHA BIGLOW Director of Partner Relations | Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
WELCOME NEW HIRES
October 22, 2024
https://cvent.me/lnRYam
November 19, 2024 https://cvent.me/mnLlk1
January 28, 2025
https://cvent.me/3kDZAY
February 25, 2025 https://cvent.me/2Qe0Xq
March 25, 2025 https://cvent.me/vnraKR
April 22, 2025
https://cvent.me/lnMa3r
May 27, 2025
https://cvent.me/k9qwAz
June 24, 2025
https://cvent.me/0QPXZR
July 22, 2025
https://cvent.me/mnQP3r
August 26, 2025
https://cvent.me/mnQPYX
September 23, 2025
https://cvent.me/NEwKqY
ABUSIVE MINDS THINK ALIKE
BEYOND COVID-19: CACS IN THE AGE OF DISTANCE SERVICES AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
I CAN’T ASK THAT RECOGNIZE, RESPONSE, RECLAIM, AND REPORT VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
SEXUAL ABUSE DYNAMICS
SCREENING FOR SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE FIELD (DFPS ONLY)
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