What’s New

2022-2023 Educational Webcast Series

All webcasts are on Wednesday and start at noon Eastern time.

2022

October 12
November 16
December 7

2023

January 11
February 8
March 8

Please check back, as more information about the topics will be posted as it becomes available. Registration will begin in September for the October webcast.

Resources for Professionals

CHAMP Mentors Vincent J. Palusci, MD, and Ann S. Botash, MD, have written an article that is a resource to help pediatric care professionals address personal and systemic racial bias: Palusci V J, Botash A S. Race and Bias in Child Maltreatment Diagnosis and Reporting. Pediatrics. 2021;148(1):e2020049625

Read more about this article on the Resources for Professionals page

Practice Recommendations

Both the Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Physical Abuse and Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Sexual Abuse have been updated. These guidelines address history, physical, consults to consider, diagnostic tests, photography, documentation, medications for sexual abuse, siblings/pediatric contacts, reporting and discharge. In addition, there are QR codes to access forms and additional information.

• Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Physical Abuse (PDF)

• Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Sexual Abuse (PDF)

Here is a list of all the CHAMP Practice Recommendations that you can download from our Practice Recommendations page:

Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Physical Abuse (June 2022)
Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Sexual Abuse (June 2022)
How to Write an Effective Impact Statement (December 2015)
Photographic Documentation (Revised January 2009)
Photographic Documentation Pocket Guide (December 2008)
Skeletal Survey (March 2021)
Triage (September 2005)
Universal Trauma Precautions and Trauma-Specific Guidelines (May 2019)
Trauma-Informed Care Pocket Guide (May 2019)

Caring with Compassion Course

Taking care of ourselves is essential for the unique role we play as a Child Abuse Medical Professional. Mandy A. O’Hara, MD, MPH, TCTSY-F, a board certified child abuse pediatrician, a CHAMP Mentor and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, has developed the course Caring with Compassion. It provides the opportunity to pause, reflect, and expand your self-knowledge and perspective. It is an opportunity to deepen your self-compassion. Accompanying this course is a 12-minute Trauma Sensitive Yoga Chair Practice video as a step to begin addressing secondary traumatic stress that is often held in the body.

Explore these opportunities by clicking on this Caring with Compassion link.