The 2008 PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute: Enhancing Leadership for Child Maltreatment Prevention* offers state of the art training to experienced teams from across the country, who are working to stop child maltreatment before the first victimization or perpetration occurs.  The Institute will expand skills to lead evidence-based efforts in the primary prevention of child maltreatment and provide teams with an intensive and supportive environment in which to work together with a trained coach on a prevention initiative.  Participants can expect to enhance core competencies in the primary prevention of child maltreatment at the state and/or national level, including:

• planning and evaluating effective policy interventions and programs;   
• stimulating organizational and social change;   
• critically evaluating the literature and translating science into practice;   
• effectively communicating with media and policy makers through media and legislative advocacy,
• implementing promising practices, and
• enhancing skills in achieving program sustainability.

The PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute will include two (2) intensive three-day, on-site sessions separated by six months of working as a team at home, with selected distance education calls and guidance from an experienced coach focused on a team-developed project.  The first three-day session will be held April 21-23, 2008 for Cohort 1and April 22-24, 2008 for Cohort 2 at the Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel, Chapel Hill North Carolina.  The second session will be conducted in October, 2008.

Multi-organizational teams of up to 5 people will be selected based on their experience working together, demonstration of leadership in child maltreatment prevention AND readiness to take an increased leadership role in making social and organizational changes to prevent child/ maltreatment./ While we will consider multidisciplinary teams from local communities, the most successful applicants will be teams working in large metropolitan areas, or at the state, regional or national level that have already established working relationships. Selected teams are responsible for travel, lodging, evening meals, and a one-time non-refundable $750 team registration fee. For more information and to submit an application, please see the attached flyer and visit http://prevent.unc.edu/education/.

The 2008 PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and is operated by The University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, a partner in the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI).  

PREVENT was launched in 2003 with support from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC and has trained more than 900 violence practitioners in 44 states in the primary prevention of different types of violence.