NATIONAL CHILD PROTECTION TRAINING CENTER

NCPTC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (tax id #26-0659346)that focuses on educational curriculum development and training child protection professionals across the country. NCPTC also focuses on prevention, advocacy, and education through our programs: Jacob Wetterling Resource Center (JWRC), Center for Effective Discipline (CED), and the National Association to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children (NAPSAC). NCPTC and its programs are devoted to preventing child abuse before it even begins.

The National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC) strives to significantly reduce and seek an end to child abuse, neglect and all other forms of child maltreatment in three generations through education, training, awareness, prevention, advocacy and the pursuit of justice. The Center promotes reformation of current training practices by providing an educational curriculum to current and future front-line child protection professionals around the nation so that they will be prepared to recognize and report the abuse of a child.

Since its inception, NCPTC staff have trained more than 40,000 child protection professionals in all 50 states and 17 countries

www.ncptc.org

OUR PROGRAMS:

The Jacob Wetterling Resource Center (JWRC) educates families and communities about the online safety and personal safety of kids. Our goal is to place safety tips, tools and resources in the hands of every child and adult in Minnesota and nationally. As adults, we must play a part in ensuring kids today are growing up in a secure, healthy world, free from exploitation and abduction.

We also provide victim assistance to families looking for help with missing children, physical, mental and sexual child abuse.

www.jwrc.org

The Center for Effective Discipline (CED) provides educational information to the public on the effects of corporal punishment of children and alternatives to its use. It is currently the headquarters for and coordinates both the National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools (NCAPS) and End Physical Punishment of Children (EPOCH-USA).

www.stophitting.org

The National Association to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children (NAPSAC) is dedicated to ending childhood sexual abuse in three generations through awareness, education and the advocacy of children’s rights.

3 Pillars of NAPSAC are:

1) Educate Families and Professionals about the 3 R’s (Recognize, React, Report child abuse)

2) Advocate for Laws that Better Protect Victims and Survivors

3) Increase Awareness of the Prevalence of Childhood Abuse

www.napsac.us

MORE ABOUT NCPTC:

NCPTC forensic interviewing trainings and programs utilize the RATAC® forensic interviewing protocol developed by CornerHouse in Minneapolis, MN. Forensic interviews are conducted by professionals from various backgrounds related to the child protection field. When an allegation of abuse occurs, the forensic interview is designed to put the child’s needs first. NCPTC extends the RATAC® protocol outside of the Twin Cities with its national centers, trainings and ChildFirst® state programs. Our training centers are located in Winona, MN and Bentonville, AR, and we host trainings for child protection professionals year-round. NCPTC’s annual conference When Words Matter is the largest conference for forensic interviewing professionals in the country. Finally, the ChildFirst® program helps individual states implement their own training courses on the RATAC® forensic interviewing protocol. Currently, over 17 states, 839 counties and the country of Japan have or are in the process of developing ChildFirst® programs.

The NCPTC Speakers Bureau was created to address the increasing demand for training experts in a variety of child protection fields. NCPTC provides speakers from a diversity of fields and professions to help educate the country about child abuse.

NCPTC’s Child Advocacy Studies program (CAST) is a curriculum implemented in several universities at the undergraduate and graduate level. The CAST program started by NCPTC at Winona State University. The goal of CAST is to educate professionals who respond to child maltreatment, to provide ethically sensitive services and to demonstrate interdisciplinary collaboration as well as competent case management. Social workers, law enforcement officers, nurses, educators and others who work with maltreated children often receive limited, if any, education in the child protection field, leaving them with few practical skills to care for maltreated children and their families. The Child Advocacy Studies program is a systematic effort to reform the education received by professionals who work in the child protection profession.