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  • NFIN Forensic Interviewer Virtual Course Registration Form

    Attendees will need access to internet, and some sessions need camera/audio capabilities to maximize the training experience. Cost: $60.00 per session; discounts if signing up for 3 or more sessions.
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    Seeking Information:  Child Torture

    Description:  Child torture cases are extreme and often multi-faceted, and can include physical abuse and emotional abuse.  The impact of trauma, to include denial and accommodation, are often responses that can be observed in children.  Understanding foundational aspects of child torture cases and how to explore these complex cases through question development is core in this module.


    Objectives:

    1. Learn foundational components that may be present in child torture cases.
    2. Review the impact on trauma and how that can alter communication within the forensic interview.
    3. Develop questions to explore the complexity and severity in child torture cases.

    *each session is approximately 3 hours, but training times may vary*

  • Seeking Information:  Child Sex Trafficking Allegations


    Description:  Child Sex Trafficking allegations have dynamics core to sexual abuse forensic interviews, but consideration should be noted regarding additional dynamic factors as well as the exploration of the business aspects of this abuse type.  Navigating these challenges, alongside alleged victim response to formal interventions, makes these interviews complex.  Learning to conduct these interviews takes skills and employed strategies to successfully explore these allegations.
    Objectives:  

    1.  Learn about the dynamics of child sex trafficking.
    2.  Discuss strategies surrounding an interview involving allegations of child sex trafficking.
    3.  Generate questions relevant to dynamic and detail exploration for potential victims and witnesses of child sex trafficking.

     

  • Seeking Information:  Grooming

    Description:  Perpetrators of child sexual abuse utilize grooming to gain access and opportunity to their victims.  Victims and families are at risk, and may have risk factors that may increase the possibility of this abuse.  Learn more about how this manipulation allows perpetrators to not only initiate the abuse, but facilitate silence.  Develop questioning strategies to explore grooming in the forensic interview.


    Objectives:  

    1.  Learn how perpetrators utilize grooming to facilitate sexual abuse.
    2.  Identify risk factors that may put a child or family at risk of grooming.
    3.  Understand the impact of grooming and trauma on victims and families.

    4.  Develop questioning options while exploring grooming in forensic interviews.

     

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    Seeking Information:  Recantations

    Description:  The potential for recantation is a reality for any case regarding allegations of child abuse.  What is critical is understanding dynamics that increase the likelihood of recantation, which allows us to identify those factors and understand how to proactively respond to them.  How those dynamics are explored is critical in the course of a forensic interview, and strategies of how a forensic interviewer navigates a recantation interview is the focus of this training.


    Objectives:

    1.  Learn the dynamics of cases with a higher likelihood of recantation.

    2.  Identify indicators that contribute to recantations. 

    3.  Discuss the MDT response to recantations.

     

  • Course Description:  Seeking Information Training Series

    Advanced Forensic Interviewer Training:  Seeking Information Training Series

    Pursuit of information is the core to forensic interviewing, exploring allegations and clarifying statements made in the course of the forensic interview.  Forensic interviewers need to build knowledge regarding multiple forms of child maltreatment and practice question development to continue developing their skills.

    Module Topics:


    Seeking Information:  Medical Child Abuse Allegations


    Description:  Medical Child Abuse allegations are complex investigations, based on perpetrator and household dynamics.  Navigating these interviews takes skills and knowledge regarding significant barriers that can exist within these case dynamics.  Come learn employed strategies to successfully explore these allegations!
    Objectives:  

    1.  Learn about the dynamics of medical child abuse.
    2.  Discuss strategies surrounding an interview involving allegations of medical child abuse.
    3.  Generate questions relevant to dynamic and detail exploration for potential victims and witnesses of medical child abuse.

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    Seeking Information:  Child Sex Trafficking Allegations


    Description:  Child Sex Trafficking allegations have dynamics core to sexual abuse forensic interviews, but consideration should be noted regarding additional dynamic factors as well as the exploration of the business aspects of this abuse type.  Navigating these challenges, alongside alleged victim response to formal interventions, makes these interviews complex.  Learning to conduct these interviews takes skills and employed strategies to successfully explore these allegations.
    Objectives:  

    1.  Learn about the dynamics of child sex trafficking.
    2.  Discuss strategies surrounding an interview involving allegations of child sex trafficking.
    3.  Generate questions relevant to dynamic and detail exploration for potential victims and witnesses of child sex trafficking.

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    Seeking Information:  Evidence in Forensic Interviews


    Description:  When evidence is found during the course of the investigation, deliberations need to be made regarding the use of evidence in the forensic interview.  Questions of ‘how’, ‘when’, and ‘if’ should be considered in cases involving evidence, and the defensible use of such evidence in a forensic interview.
    Objectives:  

    1.  Review different types of evidence that may exist.

    2.  Discuss considerations regarding the use of evidence in the forensic interview.
    3.  Generate question strategies in scenarios in which evidence will be used in the forensic interview.  

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    Seeking Information:  Recantations

    Description:  The potential for recantation is a reality for any case regarding allegations of child abuse.  What is critical is understanding dynamics that increase the likelihood of recantation, which allows us to identify those factors and understand how to proactively respond to them.  How those dynamics are explored is critical in the course of a forensic interview, and strategies of how a forensic interviewer navigates a recantation interview is the focus of this training.


    Objectives:

    1.  Learn the dynamics of cases with a higher likelihood of recantation.

    2.  Identify indicators that contribute to recantations. 

    3.  Discuss the MDT response to recantations.

     

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    Seeking Information:  Grooming

    Description:  Perpetrators of child sexual abuse utilize grooming to gain access and opportunity to their victims.  Victims and families are at risk, and may have risk factors that may increase the possibility of this abuse.  Learn more about how this manipulation allows perpetrators to not only initiate the abuse, but facilitate silence.  Develop questioning strategies to explore grooming in the forensic interview.


    Objectives:  

    1.  Learn how perpetrators utilize grooming to facilitate sexual abuse.
    2.  Identify risk factors that may put a child or family at risk of grooming.
    3.  Understand the impact of grooming and trauma on victims and families.

    4.  Develop questioning options while exploring grooming in forensic interviews.

     

     

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    Seeking Information:  Child Torture

    Description:  Child torture cases are extreme and often multi-faceted, and can include physical abuse and emotional abuse.  The impact of trauma, to include denial and accommodation, are often responses that can be observed in children.  Understanding foundational aspects of child torture cases and how to explore these complex cases through question development is core in this module.


    Objectives:

    1. Learn foundational components that may be present in child torture cases.
    2. Review the impact on trauma and how that can alter communication within the forensic interview.
    3. Develop questions to explore the complexity and severity in child torture cases.

    *each session is approximately 3 hours, but training times may vary*

  • Course Description:  Drilling Down Training Series


    Drilling Down:  Exploring Details in Forensic Interviews

    Module 1:  Physical Abuse Allegations

    Module 2:  Witness Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence

    Module 3: Sexual Abuse Allegations

    Module 4:  Tools in the Forensic Interview


    Description:  Foundational in forensic interviewing, pursuing details in the course of an interview is one of the primary purposes of the practice.  An interviewer needs an inherent curiosity in exploring given statements, balanced with a trauma-informed ability to navigate possible barriers in order to formulate questions to explore details.  This training will discuss not only the core details that should be pursued, but strategies that will help the interviewer stay organized within the interview.
    Objectives:

    1. Review core details regarding detail pursuit.
    2. Explore dynamics impacting possible communication of details by the individual being interviewed.
    3. Generate questions specific to allegation categories to further explore possible information.

    *each session is approximately 3 hours, but training times may vary*

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  •  Cost and Payment

    Credit card and invoice options are available.  Credit card options include processing fee.  Attendees cancelling may transfer class credit to another NFIN class.

     

  • Cost and discount structure applied to single registrant

    Each session is $60.00

    Three sessions= $170.00

    Four sessions= $220.00

    Five sessions= $270.00

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