19TH ANNUAL PITTSBURGH CONFERENCE ON CHILD MALTREATMENT

April 3, 2025 to April 4, 2025

Overview

At the Child Advocacy Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, it is our mission to protect children and promote healthy families.  We strive to accomplish this mission by adhering to standards of excellence in assessment of child maltreatment and in medical care of vulnerable children.  We also work in collaboration with and in support of the efforts of other child protection professionals, by providing acute and primary medical care, case management, medical consultations, court testimony and SCAN and multidisciplinary team meetings.

Target Audience

All individuals who touch the lives of maltreated children to include but not limited to Physicians, Advanced Practice Practitioners, Nurses, Allied Health Care Workers, Social Workers, Child Protective Services, Councilors, Advocates, Case Workers, Law Enforcement, Attorneys and Judges

Learning Objectives

1. Increase participants' knowledge of injuries that are associated with child abuse vs injuries associated with accidental childhood events.
2. Make diagnostic decisions regarding abuse and neglect with increased accuracy and better documentation, including subtle and complex cases
3. Work collaboratively with multiple disciplines in child abuse cases with enhanced understanding of each professional's role including forensic interviews and medical evaluations, common steps in child sexual abuse evaluations.
4.  Enhance multi-disciplinary team members' understanding of the steps of the medical evaluation and follow up of child abuse concerns
5. Perform investigations in child maltreatment cases using new tools and paradigms
6. Improve participants' skills to provide trauma informed care for children who the victims of child abuse
7. Enhance participants' understanding of the communication between child welfare professionals and medical professionals.
8.Increase participants' knowledge of current trends of street manufactured illicit drugs and the incidence of use/abuse by children and teens
9. Increase participants' skills to discuss safe internet practices with families and children. 
10. Provide discussion of the risks of implicit bias in reporting of child abuse concerns. Increasing equity in the care of children with abuse and neglect concerns to reduce disproportionality in outcomes by recognition of systemic and personal biases
11. Recognize when children and adolescents are experiencing exploitation and know how to intervene.
12. Work toward prevention of child abuse and neglect due to recognition of the deleterious effects of abuse and neglect on children and adolescents which may have an impact throughout the lifespan

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 11.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 11.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 11.00 ASWB
  • 11.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
01/27/2025
Course expires: 
05/05/2025
Event starts: 
04/03/2025 - 8:30am EDT
Event ends: 
04/04/2025 - 4:00pm EDT
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Program

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Venue

David L Lawrence Convention Center
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Accreditation

imageCME Accreditation and Designation Statement
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 11 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 11 contact hours.

Physician Assistant (AAPA)
The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 11 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.  

Social Work
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 11 continuing education credits.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
 

CONTINUING LAW ENFORCEMENT EDUCATION (CLEE)
This program is approved for 11 CLEE credits by the MUNICIPAL POLICE OFFICERS’ EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMISSION. It is the responsibility of police chiefs or their designee to data enter MPOETC-approved CLEE courses into their officers’ training records within the web-based Training and Certification System (TACS). A certification of completion will be issued with approved CLEE course information at the conclusion of the conference.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
This program will be offered for CLE credit (5.5 hours for 4/3/2025 [including 1.0 hr. of ETHICS] and 6 hours for 4/4/2025 for a possible total of 11 hours). Conference participants will complete a credit request form and submit it along with payment to Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board to receive their credit hours. The total payment due for all will be on forms. Forms will be available at the conference when participants sign in for hours.

Available Credit

  • 11.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 11.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 11.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 11.00 ASWB
  • 11.00 Attendance

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Two-Day Registration April 3-4, 2025
Early Registration Fee by 3/1/25                     $275.00
Registration Fee After 3/1/25                          $325.00


One-Day Registration- April 3, 2025 (Thursday) OR April 4, 2025 (Friday)


Early Registration Fee by 3/1/24                     $200.00
Registration Fee After 3/1/24                           $250.00


All payments must be received prior to the conference in order to attend unless special arrangements are made with Naama Balass at balassn3@upmc.edu or 412-692-8338